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
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.
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
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.
Unique Activities or Events
One important way our Technology, Engineering, and Development (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.
Inspiration sprints
Inspiration also occurs twice a year and gives developers an opportunity to be creative. They form temporary teams to spend time on any idea they like—producing experiments, design mocks or working prototypes. Work is then shared with the wider technology, engineering, design and product teams, where some ideas may progress to implementation.
InFusion
InFUSION started in 2015 and is our annual internal conference in TED. It is three jam-packed days that brings together all members of TED for peer-to-peer learning, team building, collaboration, reflecting and celebrating our accomplishments! It has grown to include Product Management and a few others who support the TED group.
The goal of the conference is to share experiences from our talented team members across all departments in our organization through face-to-face conversations and networking.
The conference includes external keynote speakers and hands-on workshops, breakout sessions across several streams – technical, business, management, etc.
TED Onboarding
New Software Developers and Testers participate in structured technical training and ‘getting started’ onboarding. This is typically a 5-day program, with a mix of synchronous and asynchronous leaning.
Product Management Quarterly Offsite Meetings
During these meetings, our team takes time to learn from each other, either in small chunks as “Five Minutes Flares” or in larger presentations. We invite guests both internal and external to join. Most recently, our team learned about more effective and faster decision making from an expert in organizational behavior, heard the career story of our VP of Solutions Engineering, and learned about some automation changes coming to one of our documentation processes.
Leadership
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Christian PantelChief Product Officer
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Andrew Datars
Chief Technology Officer
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Juno Jesuthasan
Senior Vice President, Information Technology
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Matt Campbell
Senior Vice President, Cloud Platform
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Melissa Crouch
Vice President, Product Operations
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Jack Pinette
Vice President, Product Strategy
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Linda Feng
Vice President, Architecture
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Aleks Gilgoric
Vice President, User Experience
