D2L Careers
Engineering, Product and Design
Our Technology, Engineering, Design and Product groups work to scale and develop the company’s industry-leading learning solutions. The team operates on a three-legged stool model consisting of Developers, Product Managers, and Product Designers to collaborate to work on a product roadmap and develop a world class Learning Management platform. Interested in learning more?
How does Engineering, Product and Design make an impact at D2L?
Our development teams are working with innovative technology stack using AWS (Amazon Web Services) tools and microservices along with following two-week agile sprints to ensure timely delivery of the product. Our product team enables departments across D2L to make data driven decisions and follow industry best practices to do the best work of their lives.
Engineering Team
Platform Development
Foundation
User Experience
IT
Information Security
Platform Development
The Platform group consists of a wide variety of teams that support the performance of the Brightspace learning platform, its data products and the integrated solutions that contribute to the broader partner and client ecosystem.
Foundation
We enable our teams to deliver their features in the Brightspace platform by ensuring that they have all the necessary infrastructure, observability tools, delivery pipelines and cost models in place. We do this by designing, developing, and maintaining automations for building, testing and deploying our software onto our critical infrastructure components, as well as tracking the overall cost and health of our system, mitigating any issues and scaling effectively.
Furthermore, with a deep understanding of our application and how it interacts with our infrastructure and Cloud services, we are making the Brightspace application more performant, more secure and use a smaller footprint by taking advantage of the latest advances in Cloud computing. We do this by making transformational changes to our application, such as adding multi-tenancy, interfacing with Cloud-native backends, and the capability for deployment into Cloud-native compute mechanisms.
User Experience
The D2L User Experience team is a talented group of user experience researchers, product designers, accessibility experts, and web platform developers. With expertise in learning sciences, we craft experiences that go beyond usability and truly support the teaching and learning journey. With profound user empathy, we recognize the diverse needs of learners, educators, and those who support them. Our purpose is to design and build experiences that are delightful, inclusive, and intuitive, fostering lifelong learning for everyone.
IT
The Information Technology team partner with stakeholders to deploy services and technology that will enable D2Ler’s to increase productivity, communicate, and securely share and store information to achieve D2L’s business goals.
Information Security
The Information Security team at D2L has a mandate to ensure the security and privacy of information/data related to D2L’s products, services and employees.
We work to ensure we are protecting the availability, integrity and confidentiality of D2L’s services and data by taking an active role in preventing potential security threats, resolving active security incidents, and improving our security practices.
Product Team
Product Operations
Corporate Program Management
User Experience Development and Design
Product Management
Release and Transition
Business Intelligence
Product Operations
Product operations exists to help D2L sustainably deliver on commitments – providing practices, processes, tools, and data needed for teams to do the best work of their lives. The department also leads product planning and launches, building cross organizational bridges so that we operate as one D2L.
Corporate Program Management
The Corporate Program Management Office (PMO) is comprised of charismatic leaders who passionately and relentlessly drive key business outcomes through some of D2Ls most complex initiatives. The PMO ensures a coordinated, company-wide approach to successfully execute a highly complex cross-functional portfolio of high profile, high impact programs.
User Experience Development and Design
The User Experience Development and Design (UXD) team focuses on users. With a deep empathy for learners and educators, they build experiences that foster lifelong learning for everyone. UXD includes our product design, user research, and accessibility specialists. It also includes teams building our core web platform and activity model, core experiences, strategic differentiators, targeted solutions, emerging solutions, and mobile applications.
Product Management
Our Product Management Team builds and launches products with our partners in development and design. Our product development teams are organized to have a Product Manager, Development Manager, and Designer leading efforts together in what we call a “Three-Legged Stool.” This team of leaders has autonomy to organize and execute their work in the way that works best for their team, the product, and the market. Teams are encouraged to find user problems and solve them, to use data in their decision making, and to ensure that teams are happy, healthy, and productive. We strive to foster an environment where ideas can be challenged openly, where teams have the safety to try something new, where failure is treated as a learning opportunity, and where everyone comes to do the best work of their lives.
Release and Transition
There are two main functions on this team – Release and Client Transition. Overall, the objective of the team is to support bringing new products, features, and fixes to the market, and to help transition customers off of legacy products and services onto new solutions.
Business Intelligence
The Business Intelligence (BI) team enables data driven decisions across D2L, makes data more available and accessible, and supports employees with their data needs. While BI is an internal facing team, some of their data supports external facing services and products (e.g. Pulse, Salesforce). They offer assistance with getting data, accessing data, and data consulting.
Unique Activities or Events
One important way our Technology, Engineering, Design (TED) teams are #ExcellentToEachOther is by being curious and learning from each other. There are so many ways to get involved in TED to learn more about colleagues, strengthen your skills, and take advantage of opportunities for professional development. Below are a few unique activities that our development teams run on a timely basis.
Leadership
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Stephen Laster
President
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Nick Oddson
Chief Technology Officer
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Christian Pantel
Senior Vice President, User Experience Design and Product Development
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Rajesh Talpade
Senior Vice President of Product Management
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Melissa Crouch
Vice President, Product Operations
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Juno Jesuthasan
Vice President, Information Technology