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Product Manager, Strategy & Growth
About this role
Product Manager, Strategy & Growth About OpenSesame OpenSesame is transforming workforce development with an AI-powered marketplace of skill-building courses and learning pathways. We help organizations build skills and stay compliant through a high-quality content catalog, seamless LMS/LXP integrations, and advanced capabilities like skills-based curation and multilingual content creation. More than 2,000 companies, including 150+ of the Global 2000, rely on OpenSesame to develop the world's most productive and admired workforces.
Learn more: www.opensesame.com/about About the Job AI, new workforce models, and changing approaches to talent development are reshaping how organizations develop their people. These shifts create opportunities for OpenSesame that extend beyond individual product features to new products, markets, partnerships, business models, and roles we can play in the learning and workforce ecosystem. As Product Manager, Strategy & Growth, you will identify and validate where OpenSesame can create new customer and business value.
You will combine customer insight, market intelligence, emerging technology, and commercial thinking to shape product strategy and drive new growth. This is a hands-on, AI-forward role. You will use AI extensively to accelerate research, analysis, prototyping, and experimentation—but your focus will be broader than AI products. Your job is to anticipate where the future of work and learning is heading, test where OpenSesame has the right to win, and turn the strongest opportunities into products and businesses.
Performance-Based Objectives 30 Days — Build the Opportunity Map Complete 15+ customer and stakeholder interviews focused on unmet needs, changing buying behaviors, and the future of enterprise learning. Deliver a market and competitive assessment covering major shifts in AI, workforce development, skills, learning technology, and adjacent markets. Present a prioritized opportunity map identifying 3–5 areas for further validation, supported by customer, market, and business evidence.
Build at least one prototype or concept to begin testing a high-potential opportunity with customers. 60 Days — Validate the Best Opportunities Run customer experiments against the 3 highest-priority opportunities using prototypes, interviews, data, or other appropriate tests. Produce an evidence-based assessment of each opportunity covering customer value, differentiation, market potential, feasibility, and business model.