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At Holmes Corporation (HC), we are a team of innovators focused on achieving our mission: to help professionals advance in their careers.  And our culture is the cornerstone of our identity and success. We believe that who we are – as a team, as individuals, as leaders, family members, and community members – centers us, empowers us, and drives inclusion to deliver growth and impact. It’s the reason so many employees have dedicated decades of their career to HC.  We set ambitious goals, and we make it fun to work together to achieve them.

Vision: To be a global leader in learning, engagement and partner growth, leveraging our innovative technology and services to transform certification and professional development programs, elevate member engagement, and foster workforce advancement.

Values:

  • Human-Centric: We always consider the human impact of the work we do and the decisions we make.
  • Growth Oriented: We set accelerated, market-based growth goals and take an outward-looking approach to solutions.
  • Impact Driven: We take pride in the work we do and the impact our products, services, and volunteer activities have on individuals in our local, national, and global communities.
  • Fearless in Exploration: We boldly and openly explore and assess new business opportunities, products, and solutions. We embrace possible failures as learning opportunities that lead to growth and ongoing innovation.
  • Empowering: We position people to excel by clarifying roles, aligning individuals’ strengths to their roles and responsibilities, trusting them to execute, and providing feedback throughout.
  • Accountable: All individuals are responsible for their actions, behaviors, decisions, and performance and understand their role in HC’s success.
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We hope you’ll consider joining our team. Check out what’s available and submit your resume.

Product Manager - Platform Team (AI-Enabled Platform & Learning Products)

Position Summary

As a Product Manager at HC, you’ll help define the next chapter in our legacy of high-impact learning solutions—bringing new AI-driven capabilities to a recognized and valued platform. You’ll build on a strong foundation, joining a team celebrated for quality, results, and learner impact. You’ll thrive where autonomy, rapid experimentation, and honest collaboration count most. Beyond launching products, you’ll help shape HC’s culture—spreading product thinking, learning by doing, and sharing wins.

This is a hybrid role based out of our Eagan, MN office. You must be able to work regularly in-office. Only local candidates will be considered.

 

What You’ll Accomplish

In this role, you’ll play a key part in taking HC’s offerings to the next level, helping deliver our first AI-powered product as part of our ongoing evolution. Your work will introduce new tools, processes, and ways of collaborating that keep us at the forefront, while respecting what’s made us successful to date. Through disciplined experimentation and continuous improvement, you’ll help drive wins that matter for our learners and partners. By championing product quality and our learning culture, you’ll help ensure HC’s reputation for innovation and impact continues to grow.

What You’ll Do

  • Partner with teams to apply product management best practices that scale our processes and keep roadmap priorities on track and aligned.
  • Partner with the VP of Development to operationalize the product vision. Translate company and team goals into actionable user stories, detailed requirements, measurable outcomes and reliable execution.
  • Apply product management best practices to help continually improve backlog management, discovery, and delivery, ensuring speed and alignment with HC standards.
  • Author PRDs, acceptance criteria, and release plans that balance speed with quality.
  • Facilitate sprint rituals with the team; clear blockers and adjust scope to hit commitments.
  • Partner with UX to test high-fidelity concepts, conducting user interviews or prototype sessions as needed.
  • Inform internal stakeholders, sales, and customer success—around upcoming features and launch readiness.
  • Monitor post-launch analytics; propose data-driven enhancements and phase-two bets.

What You’ll Bring

  • 5–7+ years of end-to-end product management in SaaS, e-learning, or adjacent B2B/B2C digital products.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead teams through the next phase of evolution—uplifting established processes and working styles without losing sight of what already works.
  • Successful track record taking 0-to-1 or major releases to market, especially when integrating new tools or tech into existing, high-quality offerings.
  • Expertise applying product management best practices—backlog management, discovery, and delivery while matching the maturity and culture of the organization.
  • Fluency with dual-track agile, A/B testing, and outcome-based road-mapping.
  • Fluency with generative AI tools to optimize product workflows, with a strong sense for discernment and practical application.
  • Ability to translate product strategy into actionable user stories and rigorously prioritize under tight timelines.
  • Effective communication skills—able to translate complex ideas across disciplines and work styles, adapting your approach for any audience.
  • Bonus: experience in credentialing, adaptive learning, marketplace or platform ecosystems.

Interested candidates should submit their resume and cover letter to [email protected].

Please include Product Manager in the subject line.

Application Deadline: 10/24/2025

Apply to Become Our Next Product Manager

To apply, email a copy of your resume and cover letter to:

[email protected]

Please include Product Manager in the subject line.

DevOps Lead

Position Summary

We are looking for an extremely bright, experienced DevOps Engineer to help us evolve our
infrastructure. We want someone with expertise and passion to design, develop, and support critical infrastructure for our software applications. Our ideal candidate will foster collaboration and take a full-stack view of system resilience, reliability, and security, bringing automation and monitoring skills.

 

What You’ll Accomplish

This DevOps Engineer will work directly with our engineering team to create the software that makes our business succeed. This close-knit team will work together to deliver the platform for our educational products, helping our end-users prepare for, and complete, certification exams. They will manage cloud-based infrastructure and create pipelines and implement tools to automate repeatable tasks and speed time to market.

What You’ll Do

  • Provision and configure infrastructure using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation, including setting up servers, networks, and cloud services.
  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the software development lifecycle, from code commit to deployment.
  • Automate repetitive tasks, such as deployments, testing, and infrastructure provisioning, to improve efficiency and reduce errors.
  • Implement monitoring solutions to track system performance, identify issues, and set up alerts for proactive problem resolution.
  • Ensure the security of infrastructure and applications, implementing security best practices, and conducting regular security audits.
  • Work closely with development, business and product operations, and vendors to foster communication, collaboration, and shared responsibility for software delivery.
  • Diagnose and resolve issues related to infrastructure, applications, and deployments.
  • Identify and address performance bottlenecks to ensure optimal application performance.
  • Manage cloud infrastructure (Azure) and services, including resource provisioning, cost optimization, and security.
  • Work with container technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes to build and deploy services and applications in a scalable and efficient manner.
  • Create internal and external facing standard operating procedures. Document procedures and workflows for knowledge sharing and NOC support.

What You’ll Bring

  • Years of progressive DevOps experience.
  • Strong professional experience with Linux system administration.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, ideally Azure.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
  • Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
  • Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Knowledge of database systems (Postgres).
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

If you’re ready to take on new challenges, empower individuals and organizations with the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in their industries and work for an organization with an amazing culture, we want to hear from you.

Apply to Become Our Next DevOps Lead

To apply, email a copy of your resume and cover letter to:

[email protected]

Please include DevOps Lead in the subject line.

Staff Data Engineer, Data Platform

Position Summary

Own and scale HC’s Databricks‑based Lakehouse so analytics, embedded reporting, and data products are fast, trustworthy, and cost‑efficient. You will partner with BI and Product to deliver governed, observable, and well‑documented pipelines that advance HC’s mission to help professionals grow, support our vision for world‑class learning experiences, and model our values through collaboration, accountability, and innovation. A day in the life includes building and operating pipelines, improving data quality and reliability, coaching peers, and enabling self‑service insights across teams.

What You’ll Accomplish

First 90 Days

  • Unified ingestion and transformation blueprint across priority sources
  • Baseline governance using Unity Catalog, access policies, and lineage
  • First critical domain live in production with SLAs, monitoring, and runbooks

By 180 Days

  • Platform runbooks and incident playbooks in place with an on call rotation
  • Data quality dashboards with expectations and tests across 2 to 3 domains
  • Standardized dbt models and data contracts adopted by partner teams
  • Cost and performance benchmarks with an optimization plan

What You’ll Do

  • Build and run end‑to‑end pipelines on Databricks and Delta (ingestion, transformation, orchestration, observability, cost)
  • Harden governance and security with Unity Catalog, lineage, access control, secrets management, and responsible PII handling.
  • Define SLAs and SLOs with BI and Product. Set error budgets and manage incidents with clear playbooks.
  • Model and transform data using SQL and Python. Champion versioned, tested transformations with dbt or equivalent.
  • Establish data quality standards: expectations, tests, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
  • Partner on architecture with platform engineering. Design service layer interfaces and contract‑first schemas for batch, CDC, and streaming (Auto Loader or Kafka).
  • Enable analytics teams: semantic layers, metrics definitions, and self‑serve documentation for Omni and Power BI.
  • Lead design reviews, mentor engineers and analysts, and raise the bar on code quality and documentation.

What You’ll Bring

  • 5 or more years of data engineering experience with 2 or more years leading or mentoring
  • Proven ownership of production pipelines on Databricks and Spark with Delta Lake and object storage
  • Strong SQL and solid Python
  • Orchestration experience with Databricks Workflows or Apache Airflow
  • Practical experience with Unity Catalog administration, access policies, and data lineage
  • Data modeling for analytics (star and snowflake), performance tuning, partitioning, and cost control
  • Data quality and reliability practices, including automated tests, schema checks, monitoring, alerting, and incident management
  • CI and CD for data, including Git based workflows and deployment automation

Interested candidates should submit their resume and cover letter to [email protected]. Please include Staff Data Engineer in the subject line. 

Application Deadline: 09/15/2025

Apply to Become Our Next Staff Data Engineer

To apply, email a PDF copy of your resume to:

[email protected]