SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER

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Job Summary: Join YDUQS as a Senior Product Owner, leading products, managing backlogs, and translating business needs into multidisciplinary teams within an agile environment. Key Highlights: 1. Lead the Partner Poles product and manage the product backlog. 2. Translate strategic needs into clear user stories. 3. Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. **HERE YOUR CAREER STARTS BIG.** **JOIN US AS A** ***SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER*** **AT YDUQS.** We have an ambitious project requiring a team ready to think originally and disruptively, focused on solving today’s major challenges in education: access, technology, customization, and student success. We are an energetic company—born large, delivering extraordinary results. Join this team! **COME TRANSFORM LIVES. INCLUDING YOUR OWN.** **Responsibilities and Duties** **The main challenges as a** ***SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER*** **are:** * Lead the Partner Poles product, acting as the liaison between multidisciplinary teams and the business area, ensuring alignment of expectations and effective demand prioritization; * Manage the product backlog and facilitate agile ceremonies, ensuring deliveries generate real value for the partner poles network; * Translate business strategic needs into clear, well-defined user stories, facilitating development teams’ work; * Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, promoting transparent communication and proactive demand conflict management. **Requirements and Qualifications** **We seek professionals with:** * Bachelor’s degree completed in Technology, Business Administration, Information Systems or related fields; * Prior experience as a Product Owner, with exposure to agile environments (Scrum, Kanban or similar); * Strong communication skills and ability to facilitate alignment between technical teams and business areas; * Analytical capability for demand prioritization and data-driven decision-making; * Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple stakeholders simultaneously. **Preferred qualifications include:** * Previous experience in the education sector, especially in higher education institutions or education networks; * Knowledge and hands-on experience with Azure DevOps for digital product management (boards, backlogs, pipelines); * Certifications in Product Management (CSPO, PSPO or equivalents); * Experience with products supporting educational operations, such as pole management systems, enrollment systems, or distance learning platforms. **Additional Information** Work Location: Hybrid — Barra da Tijuca — Cittá Work Schedule: 40 hours/week, Monday to Friday, from 9 AM to 6 PM, with flexibility options from 8 AM to 5 PM. **At YDUQS you’ll find:** * **Full tuition scholarships** up to 100% for employees, legal dependents, and affiliates (parents, siblings). Up to three scholarships may be used simultaneously; * **Comprehensive health insurance**, fully subsidized for the employee and partially for family members, with employee responsible for copayments; * **Optional dental insurance**, to support your oral health; * **Meal allowance or food voucher**, with choice to suit your needs; * **Wellhub or Totalpass**, offering flexible gym options; * **Wellz**, a mental and emotional wellbeing platform providing diverse support, including access to online individual therapy; * **Wellness & Benefits Club**, featuring a dedicated program and exclusive benefits; * **Flexible dress code**, promoting our diversity; * **Life insurance;** * **SESC membership;** * **Corporate University**, accessible via our exclusive portal, Educare; * **Growth opportunities**: over 60% of current openings are filled through internal selection processes. Hybrid work model applies across all corporate offices. Flexible working hours: we offer a Flexible Hours Policy for corporate administrative employees, with schedule options within company-defined time bands—including remote work eligibility. Extended remote work (home office) for new mothers returning from maternity leave, up to 3 months, based on role requirements. We believe in the excellence of our education—and therefore value graduates from our institutions in our selection processes. Commitment to inclusion: all positions are also open to people with disabilities, reinforcing how much we value diversity. **DIVERSITY: YDUQS values diversity, and the additional information provided in the diversity fields is very important to us—please do not skip these questions.** Have you ever considered transforming society through education? Then join YDUQS! Here, technology is part of our *core business*: we combine education with our digital transformation ecosystem to impact over 1.2 million students daily! Since 2018, we’ve been continuously improving and virtualizing the administrative experience for students across our institutions. In 2022, we launched our open innovation program, YDUQS Labs, which seeks to create business value by partnering with startups already in traction to develop solutions for our corporate challenges. We’re already recognized as one of the sector’s top innovation enablers—and internally, we reinforce our research and content hub for digital education, which already includes edtechs EnsineMe, Qconcursos, and Hardwork Medicina. We are Brazil’s largest higher education group and one of the country’s most innovative and fastest-growing organizations. Our goal is to drive a quantum leap in the quality of Brazilian higher education. We deliver high-quality education to people across all social classes nationwide—and throughout their adult lives. **PURPOSE** Educate to transform. **VALUES** **Student Focus** We all work for the student—we are passionate about education. **Ownership Mindset** We act as owners, proud of every delivery we make. **Results Focus** Every effort delivers real, sustainable impact. **Educational Excellence** We exceed expectations, delivering the best training and experience across all segments we serve. **People Appreciation** We take pride in working here. We develop people and recognize excellence. **Innovation and Technology** We embed technology in all processes, empowering students, teachers, and colleagues. **Diversity and Ethics** We do what is right and value differences. **BUSINESS UNITS** Our organization is structured into three business divisions: in-person, digital, and premium. Within the Digital vertical, we have EnsineMe—the digital content and methodology unit—positioning YDUQS at the forefront of research, development, and production of knowledge for our courses. Additionally, we maintain a multidisciplinary corporate team covering, among other functions, Finance, Marketing, IT, and People & Management. **OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS** Ibmec — IDOMED — Estácio — Damásio Educacional — Clio — SJT — Qconcursos — Wyden: UniToledo, UniFacid, UniFanor, UniFBV, UniRuy, Faculdade Martha Falcão, UniFavip, UniMetrocamp, Facimp, and Faci. **WHAT YOU’LL FIND HERE?** We count on professionals who value innovation within a diverse, humble, and ethical environment. All our initiatives place the student at the center of decisions—because we consider their success as ours. With strong adoption of digital culture, we operate through developing methodologies and content reflecting the challenges and needs of our time. We have a highly senior and competent executive leadership team that guides our organizational strategy with confidence. We are committed to reducing the strategic challenge of Diversity & Inclusion in Brazil, implementing a structured program and consistently elevating this topic with executive leadership. We are obsessed with employee engagement and have implemented a structured eNPS program, with five squads running in parallel, focused on continuous improvement of the employee experience. Within three months of launch, we’ve already implemented 14 improvements targeting career opportunities and digital infrastructure. Have you ever thought about being part of all this? \#VemProTime