Location: Australia - 100% Remote / Home Working (Must permanently live in Australia & have the right to work without restrictions to apply for this role)
Pay Rate: $33 AUD per hour
Contract: 12-month initial contract (Highly likely to be extended, but no guarantees) - Self-employed contractor. Responsible for own taxes.
Hours of work: 20 hours per week - Part Time
Hiring Manager: Nick East
Recruiter: Will Thom
First things first! What is Twinkl? What is Twinkl's mission?
Twinkl is here to "help those who teach." It's what brings us to work every day. We're proud to create educational resources that can be used at each step of a child's learning journey.
Our award-winning resource collection - created by teachers for teachers - provides unlimited supplementary digital and printable teaching resources at an unbeatable value.
We have over a million editable resources, and new content is added every day. Don't see what you need? Just ask! We make bespoke resources for our members as part of our world-class customer service promise to help those who teach.
We support educators and children around the world, and we're committed to transforming lives through education.
Whoever you are, whatever you teach, Twinkl is here for you!
The Role:
We are looking for a candidate with a passion for education and is looking for a new challenge in leading and developing a range of PlanIt and Move teaching resources to support teachers, parents and children in Australia. Planit is Twinkl's schemes of work product and Move is Twinkl's premium Health and Physical Education collection of resources.
Product Owners at Twinkl are responsible for driving forward the vision and aims of established resource collections along with creating innovative and exciting materials which are at the forefront of the education market. They work closely with the product development team to create the right resources at the right time to support the needs of educational professionals. The successful candidate will carry out their role whilst communicating extensively with key stakeholders within and outside the business to achieve the company's core values and focus in Australia.
This exciting and varied role will give you the opportunity to play a key role in the development of the most popular teaching materials in the world and help to meet the needs of thousands of educators.
How you'll spend your day:
- Communicating with the development team to share product vision and priorities;
- Planning and coordinating future releases of resources, including balancing conversions vs new units;
- Support the development team with their professional development;
- Collaborating with other Product Owners, customer-facing teams and key areas of the business;
- Understanding the pain points affecting our customers and identifying ways of addressing them;
- Reporting on product performance and creating and following a product strategy;
- Overseeing the product journey and communicating this with stakeholders;
- Conducting competitor analysis, market and field research to inform product judgements;
- Researching and developing innovative concepts within the market;
- Supporting partnership opportunities
In this role, you will learn:
- Prioritisation of product releases;
- Stakeholder management;
- Effective market and competitor research techniques;
- Product Owner mindset;
- Development of business propositions;
- Innovation techniques and principles
You'll work with:
- Nick East (Australia Product Manager);
- Other Australian Product Owners;
- The Planit and Move Australia product teams
Requirements
To succeed in the role, you will:
- Have a hard work ethic, be passionate, driven and loves what you do;
- Be organised, able to work to deadlines, and manage your time effectively;
- Have a passion for schemes of work and helping children develop;
- Be able to communicate with colleagues and our external partners effectively;
- Have analytical and problem-solving skills to make data-driven and business decisions;
- Have a knowledge and experience of the Australian Curriculum and an understanding of the target market;
- Have experience and/or keen interest in developing a Product Owner mindset
We're interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following:
- Qualifications: undergraduate or postgraduate in primary education or appropriate equivalent degree;
- Minimum of 3 years relevant and recent primary teaching experience and market awareness
- Is good fun to be with and has the ability to communicate well with others;
- Is honest, trustworthy and reliable;
- Produces quality work and is ready to learn new skills
We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from people of all different cultures and backgrounds including groups for LGBTQ+, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people of all ages, races and religions, disabilities (visible and invisible), women in Tech and working parents.
