Product Owner Secondary Education

Product Owner – MAX Online

About the Role

We are looking for a Product Owner to support the development and continuous improvement of MAX Online, Malmberg and Sanoma’s secondary education learning platform. MAX Online helps teachers achieve the best outcomes for every pupil through high‑quality teaching materials, time-saving tools, and adaptive learning support.

The Junior Product Owner strengthens the product team by combining business analysis, product management support, and delivery execution into one role.
 The purpose of this role is to ensure that business needs are transformed into well-prepared, clearly scoped, and predictably delivered product work, while collaborating with the Product Team Lead on strategy, prioritisation, and outcomes.

You will join a collaborative, international, and highly skilled team where initiative is valued and supported. The working environment is flexible, informal, and focused on delivering results that matter and your home office is located in Den Bosch.

Your key responsibilities

Product Management:

• Define, prioritise, and continuously refine areas of the Product backlog
• Manage improvement requests and communicate updates to both internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with other stakeholders to clarify problems to solve, success metrics and  ensure proper communication and adoption of product increments.
• Conduct independent and collaborative research to identify development opportunities and contribute to the evolution of our value proposition,
• Support discovery activities with UX and engineering to reduce ambiguity early undefined.

Team Enablement & Delivery Execution

• Own product readiness for planning events
• Track progress of committed work across sprints and releases
• Monitor delivery timelines, dependencies, and risks
• Proactively identify, raise, and help resolve blockers
• Ensure delivery remains transparent, predictable, and aligned with priorities
• Support the team in maintaining focus and flow during execution
• Work closely with the scrum master to support a team culture that people enjoy working in

Job requirements

• Demonstrate excellent problem-solving and product management skills, delivering successful outcomes

• Familiarity with UX discovery and validation practices

• Understanding of software development lifecycle and delivery flow

• Be a strong team player with experience working in a matrix environment, promoting effective collaboration across teams and products

• 3-5 years of experience as a Product Owner/senior BA or in other relevant positions – ideally with experience managing products that have a strong front-end components

• Display knowledge and proficiency in agile practices, preferably Scrum

• Exhibit exceptional communication skills, capable of defining clear development stories tailored to diverse audiences

• Possess fluent communication skills in written and spoken Dutch and English.

• Previous experience in the educational industry is a significant advantage, demonstrating an understanding of the sector's unique challenges and opportunities.

Soft Skills & Competences:

• Proactive and hands-on attitude: curious, open-minded, and self-driven

• Strong communication skills: able to listen, present, and influence effectively

• Analytical thinking: ability to understand and analyze complex technical problems and collaborate on solutions with development teams

• Customer-centric mindset: consistently representing customer needs and ensuring delivered value is aligned with their expectations

• Organized and methodical: rigorous and structured when tasks require attention to detail

About Us

As an employer, Sanoma offers a working environment where you can show the best of yourself. The working environment is result-oriented and flexible, with a focus on collaboration. You will be part of a highly skilled and experienced international team in an open and informal setting where initiative is expected and rewarded.

About Sanoma Learning

How do you prepare students for the world, engage their curiosity and inspire them to grow? That is the main question of teachers all around the world. At Sanoma Learning, it has always been our mission to help to find and develop best-in-class answers to this question. If you join us, it means that you embark on an exciting journey to help shape the future of learning for primary, secondary and vocational education. We believe that your journey is our success as a company.

Sanoma Learning is a leading K12 European learning company, operating in 12 countries. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers and schools to develop the talents of every child to reach their potential. By offering printed and digital learning content, as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education, we want to grow our positive impact on learning across Europe. With over 3000 employees, we help shape the future of education for 25+ million of students.

So, are you ready to start your journey to help shape the future of learning and help teachers to support all students to reach their potential?

Sanoma Learning is an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics.