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About the Role
To strengthen our discovery, concept development, and user‑centric innovation capabilities within Sanoma Learning, we are looking for a Research and Concept Lead. The role operates at the intersection of user insight, future thinking, and systems thinking, driving complex discovery and concept initiatives across countries and disciplines.
Key Responsibilities
Lead research‑driven, future‑oriented concept development.
Drive early‑stage discovery and concept work by combining deep user understanding with future thinking and systems thinking.
Translate emerging needs, signals, and trends into clear product concepts that consider long‑term impact, scalability, and coherence across Sanoma Learning.
Coordinate and conduct research in the Italian market, ensuring local user, pedagogical, and market perspectives are deeply understood and accurately represented.
Balance user value, feasibility, and viability throughout discovery and concept phases.
Embed user‑centricity into product strategies, roadmaps, and investment discussions.
Lead complex initiatives that span multiple countries and multidisciplinary teams.
Collaborate with research, design, and product peers to continuously evolve discovery, concepting, and validation practices, methods, and tools.
Act as a facilitator and connector across teams and markets, ensuring insights, assumptions, constraints, and decisions are visible, discussed, and understood.
Maintain high standards for research, synthesis quality, and concept clarity.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in research, product discovery, or related roles.
Strong future thinking and systems thinking capabilities applied to product discovery and concept development.
Proven ability to combine user‑centric insight with feasibility and viability considerations.
Deep experience leading research and early‑stage concept work in complex environments.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills.
Fluent in English (written and spoken); experience with the Italian market is essential.
Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping direction where problems and solutions are not yet defined.
Strong analytical mindset combined with creativity and curiosity.
Collaborative, proactive, and quality‑driven approach to work.
Nice to have:
Experience working with education.
Nice to have:
Background in innovation, concept strategy, or early‑stage product definition.
Nice to have:
Experience contributing to shared discovery or concept frameworks across organizations.
Nice to have:
Familiarity with accessibility, inclusion, and ethical considerations in research and concept work.
Our Commitment to Equality
Sanoma Learning is an equal‑opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensuring equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic.
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