SeniorProductOps&StrategySpecialist

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in: We're looking for a Sr. Product Operations & Strategy Specialist to design and scale the systems that help Instructure's product organization move faster and smarter. You'll build AI-enabled workflows, facilitate executive workshops, and create the processes that connect strategy to execution across our product organization.     WHAT YOU’LL DO: - Design and deploy scalable product ops processes — including AI-enabled workflows, automation pipelines, and PDLC governance models — that reduce manual overhead and speed up product team output. - Facilitate governance and support design and deployment of AI agents, skills files, and automation tooling to cut manual work and accelerate product team output. - Facilitate working sessions and workshops with product and design stakeholders using design thinking methods to surface priorities, align stakeholders, and define operating models. - Support board reporting materials development. - Measure adoption and continuously improve the tools, templates, and systems the product team relies on. - Support contract/spend auditing and annual planning for the product team’s vendor contracts and spend — identify consolidation opportunities, surface potential cost savings, and help PMs find cost offsets they can act on through changes to tools or approach. - Build business cases for new product investments — size the market opportunity (TAM, SAM, SOM), frame the strategic rationale, and give leadership the data they need to make confident resource decisions. - Run the product team’s operating cadence — facilitate t