Job Title: Product Development Manager
Salary: £49,300 – £65,950
Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours
Question: Are you passionate about shaping the future of international education systems globally and bringing innovative products to life that create real impact?
About The Role
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world‑leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We are looking for a strategic and collaborative Product Development Manager to join our Partnership for Education team working across the wider International Education Group. This is an exciting opportunity to scoping and developing new education reform products and lead on the strategic growth and success of Cambridge Discover – our surveying tool to support schools and ministries to make data informed decisions.
Responsibilities
- Leading the development of new product propositions for the Partnership for Education product portfolio, including developing business cases, validating use cases and research
- Owning and evolving the product strategy and roadmap for Cambridge Discover and other assigned products, ensuring alignment with Partnership for Education strategy, International Education priorities, customer needs and market opportunities
- Applying a strong customer insight approach, using user feedback, market research, competitor analysis and product usage data to inform product decisions, prioritisation and continuous improvement
- Defining and tracking product success measures, including adoption, usage, impact and other key performance indicators, and using these insights to guide decision‑making
- Translating product strategy into clear technical requirements, prototypes and prioritised deliverables, working closely with technical and cross‑functional teams
- Managing product budgets and ensuring delivery within time and cost constraints
- Contribute to decision‑making forums, supporting escalation where needed, and clearly communicating product vision, roadmap and priorities to stakeholders
- Collaborating across International Education and Partnership for Education with Commercial, Technical, Marketing and Regional teams to ensure alignment on strategy, opportunities pipeline and successful delivery
- Managing complex, senior‑level stakeholder relationships across governments, funders and partners and representing Cambridge globally in high‑level engagements
- Championing product management methodologies, embedding consistent product practices and building awareness, engagement and capability across internal teams and external partners
This hybrid role requires typically 40‑60% face‑to‑face collaboration at a dedicated location. Flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment.
About You
You will be a strategic thinker and experienced product professional with a strong track record in delivering complex products. You will be highly collaborative, comfortable working across diverse stakeholders, and motivated by the opportunity to contribute to education reform on a global scale.
You will bring:
- Proven experience and understanding of product management principles across strategy, roadmap development, delivery and lifecycle management
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver product strategies and roadmaps for both new and existing products
- Experience managing digital product development using Agile or similar methodologies and applying customer‑centred digital product practices, including continuous discovery, user feedback and evidence‑based prioritisation
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving capability, with the ability to balance customer needs, commercial considerations and technical feasibility
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior decision‑makers
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, taking a proactive approach and adapting quickly to shifting priorities through effective reprioritisation
- Experience working across global, cross‑cultural teams
If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the international education reform landscape and/or experience in the education sector
- Experience working with digital platforms, online learning solutions or technology‑enabled products
- Knowledge of impact measurement or evaluation tools
- Experience engaging with governments, ministries, donor organisations or multilateral organisations
We are a Disability Confident employer that is committed to equality and inclusion, ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme’s Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long‑term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world‑class, flexible rewards package, featuring family‑friendly and planet‑friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural or social class/background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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