This position offers a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility between working from home and our office. Typically, employees are expected to work 2 days in the office per week.
Lead Product Manager, University Services
A new role in an established business where we work on behalf of universities admitting, converting and enrolling ambitious international and domestic students. We're investing in AI and emerging tech to future‑proof how we help universities find, enrol and convert more students at scale and we need an experienced product manager to lead the product vision behind it.
The opportunity
Own the product vision and roadmap for QS University Services' student conversion solutions. As we roll out a new tech stack this year, you'll be the dedicated product leader defining and refining what we build, how it scales, and how AI and automation deliver better outcomes for students, our university partners, and the business.
Role responsibilities
- Set and evolve the product vision across conversion, admissions and digital outreach
- Lead continuous discovery: research, hypotheses, MVPs, experimentation
- Own a prioritised, evidence‑based roadmap; balance quick wins with long‑term capability
- Embed AI and automation to drive student conversion at global scale
- Partner with engineering, data, marketing and client delivery to ship and iterate
- Define success metrics and let the data guide what comes next
- Manage a small team
Key skills and experience
- Product management experience in a tech‑enabled services or platform environment
- Track record owning roadmaps end‑to‑end—discovery through delivery
- Agile delivery experience working hands‑on with engineering teams
- Strong stakeholder management in cross‑functional, matrixed organisations
- A data‑led approach to decisions and trade‑offs
- Passionate about helping international students – our end users and most important stakeholders.
Bonus
- Higher education, student recruitment or admissions background
- Understanding of HubSpot
- Conversion optimisation or funnel management
- Experience launching or transforming a major tech stack
Benefits
- Access to an annual bonus scheme (for qualifying roles only)
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays – increasing to 27 days after 5 years’
- Access to a Buy Holiday scheme allowing you to buy up to 5 additional holiday days per year
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Generous pension through Royal London
- Comprehensive private medical insurance and wellness scheme through Vitality
- Cycle to work scheme
- A vibrant social environment and multicultural and multinational culture
Additional professional growth and wellness initiatives
- Free subscription to the Calm App – the #1 app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation
- A focus on welfare which is led by our global wellness team, with mental health first aiders globally
- Access to a variety of diversity and inclusion initiatives and groups
- Strong recognition and reward programs – including a peer‑to‑peer recognition platform, quarterly and annual QS Applaud Awards, Connect with your Career annual PD event
- Support for volunteering and study leave
- Free subscription to LinkedIn learning – with over 5000 courses and programmes at your fingertips
- Options to join our outstanding global Mentorship programme
Equal opportunities
QS Quacquarelli Symonds is proud to be a fair and equal organisation where everyone has the same opportunity to achieve their full potential, irrespective of their background or personal attributes. We celebrate our diversity and believe through sharing our experiences we can learn from one another, be stronger together, and enable our business to thrive.
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Lead Product Manager, University Services
A new role in an established business where we work on behalf of universities admitting, converting and enrolling ambitious international and domestic students. We’re investing in AI and emerging tech to future‑proof how we help universities find, enrol and convert more students at scale and we need an experienced product manager to lead the product vision behind it.
The opportunity
Own the product vision and roadmap for QS University Services’ student conversion solutions. As we roll out a new tech stack this year, you’ll be the dedicated product leader defining and refining what we build, how it scales, and how AI and automation deliver better outcomes for students, our university partners, and the business.
Role responsibilities
- Set and evolve the product vision across conversion, admissions and digital outreach
- Lead continuous discovery: research, hypotheses, MVPs, experimentation
- Own a prioritised, evidence‑based roadmap; balance quick wins with long‑term capability
- Embed AI and automation to drive student conversion at global scale
- Partner with engineering, data, marketing and client delivery to ship and iterate
- Define success metrics and let the data guide what comes next
- Manage a small team
Key skills and experience
- Product management experience in a tech‑enabled services or platform environment
- Track record owning roadmaps end‑to‑end—discovery through delivery
- Agile delivery experience working hands‑on with engineering teams
- Strong stakeholder management in cross‑functional, matrixed organisations
- A data‑led approach to decisions and trade‑offs
- Passionate about helping international students – our end users and most important stakeholders.
Bonus
- Higher education, student recruitment or admissions background
- Understanding of HubSpot
- Conversion optimisation or funnel management
- Experience launching or transforming a major tech stack
Benefits
- Access to an annual bonus scheme (for qualifying roles only)
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays – increasing to 27 days after 5 years’
- Access to a Buy Holiday scheme allowing you to buy up to 5 additional holiday days per year
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Generous pension through Royal London
- Comprehensive private medical insurance and wellness scheme through Vitality
- Cycle to work scheme
- A vibrant social environment and multicultural and multinational culture
Additional professional growth and wellness initiatives
- Free subscription to the Calm App – the #1 app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation
- A focus on welfare which is led by our global wellness team, with mental health first aiders globally
- Access to a variety of diversity and inclusion initiatives and groups
- Strong recognition and reward programs – including a peer‑to‑peer recognition platform, quarterly and annual QS Applaud Awards, Connect with your Career annual PD event
- Support for volunteering and study leave
- Free subscription to LinkedIn learning – with over 5000 courses and programmes at your fingertips
- Options to join our outstanding global Mentorship programme
Equal opportunities
QS Quacquarelli Symonds is proud to be a fair and equal organisation where everyone has the same opportunity to achieve their full potential, irrespective of their background or personal attributes. We celebrate our diversity and believe through sharing our experiences we can learn from one another, be stronger together, and enable our business to thrive.
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