Program Director, Kahoot at Work

Kahoot! is seeking a dynamic and strategic leader to drive the vision, strategy, and success of our Kahoot! at work segment. As a key collaborator with the Kahoot! Executive Team, you will shape the roadmap for this business area, leveraging deep market insights to inform company-wide decisions. In this role, you'll partner with Product, Sales and Marketing teams to address customer needs, craft impactful commercial solutions, and lead strategic initiatives that accelerate product usage and drive revenue growth. 

Your Role

Your role will include the following responsibilities:

  • Strategic Leadership: Collaborate with the Kahoot! Executive Team to define and drive the vision and strategy for the Kahoot! at work segment.
  • Market Insight: Maintain deep expertise in the competitive landscape and market trends, ensuring insights are shared across the organization to inform strategic decisions.
  • Customer Focus: Partner with Product and Sales teams to identify customer needs and uncover key business opportunities.
  • Solutions Development: Transform customer insights, market dynamics, and segment strategy into impactful commercial products, services, and initiatives.
  • Pricing and Packaging: Craft compelling value propositions, develop pricing strategies
  • Representation: Act as Kahoot!´s primary spokesperson for the Kahoot! at work segment, engaging with Kahoot! employees, customers, partners, owners, media, and audiences at industry events.
  • Initiative Leadership: Lead mission-critical initiatives, ensuring successful execution of strategic priorities for the segment.
  • Operational Leadership: working closely with the Kahoot! Executive Team to align priorities, and with the Kahoot! Product, Sales, and Marketing teams to remove roadblocks.

The position is based in Kahoot!'s Oslo (HQ) or Copenhagen offices and will report directly to the Chief Solutions Officer in Oslo.

Requirements

  • Professional Experience: At least 5 years in commercial Product Development and Management, ideally in a SaaS environment.
  • Industry Expertise: Background in SaaS for learning and development, with experience working across diverse customer groups, including students, educators, school administrators, and district leaders.
  • Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead strategic, company-wide initiatives across Products, Marketing, and Sales.
  • Communication Strength: Exceptional communication skills, with a talent for presenting and advocating products and solutions publicly.
  • Work Style: Flexible, collaborative, and results-driven approach to achieving business objectives. Able to both zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to manage the details.
  • Educator Insight (Preferred): Hands-on teaching or school administration experience is advantageous but not required.


About Kahoot!
The Kahoot! Group is on a mission to make learning awesome! We want to empower everyone, including children, students, and employees to unlock their full learning potential. Our Kahoot! learning platform makes it easy for any individual or corporation to create, share, and host learning sessions that drive compelling engagement.

Launched in 2013, Kahoot!’s vision is to build the leading learning platform in the world. Since launch, Kahoot! has hosted hundreds of millions of learning sessions with more than 11 billion participants (non-unique) in more than 200 countries and regions. The Kahoot! Group includes Clever, the leading US K-12 EdTech learning platform, together with the learning apps DragonBox, Poio, Drops, Actimo, Motimate, and Whiteboard.fi.

The Kahoot! Group is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices in the US, the UK, France, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, Spain and Poland. To learn more, visit us at kahoot.com, and let’s play!

Our K!rew

At the Kahoot! Group we champion a positive culture of collaborative learning and innovation. With a global team of more than 600 employees representing over 50 different nationalities, we’re a diverse and fun bunch of people! We work hard and celebrate our wins, tackle challenges with original ideas and learn something new every day.

We are driven by our mission and guided by our values: playful, curious and inclusive.  

If you talk to anyone working in the Kahoot! Group, they will tell you that one of the greatest perks is being able to see how the work you do puts a smile on the face of kids, teachers and learners all around the world. 

Benefits

What we can offer you:

  • A competitive compensation package 
  • Kahoot! Equity program
  • Broadband and phone contributions
  • Buddy program 
  • Social and company events (virtual and in person)
  • A diverse, friendly and international environment 

We look forward to hearing from you!

About Kahoot!Kahoot! is on a mission to make learning awesome! We want to empower everyone, including children, students, and employees to unlock their full learning potential. Our game-based learning platform makes it easy for any individual or corporation to create, share, and play learning games that drive serious engagement. In addition, our family of apps takes math learning to a new level and empowers children to learn to read through play. Launched in 2013, Kahoot!’s vision is to build the leading learning platform in the world. In the last 12 months, more than 200 million games have been played on the Kahoot! platform with over one billion participating players in 200 countries. The company is headquartered in Norway with offices in the US, the UK, France, Finland, Denmark and Spain. Let’s play!Our K!rewAt Kahoot! we champion a positive culture of collaborative learning and innovation. With a team of almost 200 employees representing more than 40 different nationalities, we’re a diverse and fun bunch of people! We work hard and celebrate our wins, tackle challenges with original ideas and learn something new every day.The values guiding us are: we are playful, we are curious and we are inclusive!

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