Product Director - AI & Learning Platform

ISP Product Director - AI & Learning Platform

Role Profile

Purpose of the role

The Product Director leads the strategic development of ISP’s technology-enabled learning ecosystem, ensuring that digital tools, AI capabilities and learning platforms work together to improve teaching and learning across ISP’s global school network.

Job Description

The role owns and maintains the end-to-end vision, strategy and execution of ISP’s AI-enabled learning ecosystem, ensuring alignment between product innovation, school-level implementation, learning improvement strategy and organisational capability.

The role is responsible for designing and delivering an integrated platform that supports teachers, learners and school leaders, combining learning design tools, classroom technologies, data systems and emerging AI capabilities into a coherent experience.

The role leads two senior functions, EdTech & AI (Product) and EdTech Embedding & Change, ultimately overseeing a team of c. 15 FTE. This role is also part of the Learning & Innovation Senior Leadership Team.

Reports to: Group Chief Learning and Innovation Officer

Location: UK Remote (Travel required)

ISP Key Responsibilities

Maintain and further refine ISP’s Digital Learning Vision

• Defining the long-term vision for ISP’s digital learning ecosystem
• Ensuring alignment with ISP’s Learning Improvement Process
• Ensuring technology meaningfully improves teaching quality and learner outcomes
• Ensuring responsible and ethical use of AI within learning systems

Align product development with school needs

• Ensuring product development reflects the needs of ISP schools and teachers
• Maintaining strong feedback loops between schools and product teams
• Balancing innovation with practicality and implementation feasibility
• Ensuring technology solutions support learning improvement priorities

Oversee product delivery & school adoption

• Overseeing the design and delivery of ISP’s EdTech and AI tools for learning
• Ensuring strong adoption and effective use across schools
• Supporting capability building among teachers and school leaders
• Resolving strategic tensions between product innovation and implementation

Executive Leadership & Investment Strategy

• Advising on strategic investment in digital learning platforms
• Ensuring alignment between technology strategy and learning strategy
• Support long-term capability development in technology-enabled learning
• Representing ISP externally on technology and innovation in education

Position ISP as a Global Leader in AI Learning

• Building strategic partnerships with technology providers
• Engaging with global AI and EdTech ecosystems
• Establishing ISP thought leadership in AI-enabled education

Qualifications And Experience

• Executive leadership experience in AI, EdTech or digital transformation
• Experience leading large-scale organisational transformation
• Strong credibility with education leaders and teachers
• Ability to translate technology innovation into classroom impact
• Strong financial and strategic leadership capability
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and their application to learning
• Experience operating with Executive or Board-level stakeholders
• Ability to lead both product innovation and cultural change

Skills

• Executive Leadership
• Organisational Transformation
• Digital Transformation
• Artificial Intelligence Strategy
• Digital Technology Strategy
• Product Innovation
• Strategic Planning
• Financial Strategy
• Stakeholder Management
• Organisational Change Leadership
• Culture Transformations
• Talent Engagement
• Teacher Development
• Educational Innovation
• Emerging Technology Trends
• Evaluating New Technologies

ISP Principles

Begin with our children and students

Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. We are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding and Health & Safety issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.

Treat everyone with care and respect

We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well‑being of self and others.

Operate effectively

We focus relentlessly on the things that are most important and will make the most difference. We apply school policies and procedures and embody the shared ideas of our community.

Are financially responsible

We make financial choices carefully based on the needs of the children, students and our schools.

Learn continuously

Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.

ISP Commitment to Safeguarding Principles

ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures, including an online due diligence search, references and satisfactory Criminal Background Checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years’ employment history.

ISP Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

ISP is committed to strengthening our inclusive culture by identifying, hiring, developing, and retaining high‑performing teammates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender expression, age, disability status, neurodivergence, socio‑economic background or other demographic characteristics. Candidates who share our vision and principles and are interested in contributing to the success of ISP through this role are strongly encouraged to apply.

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