Job Title: Head of Digital Product 

Salary: £69,800 - £93,350 

Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid) 

Contract: Permanent, full time (35 hours per week)

Shape the future of exams 

Are you an experienced digital product management expert passionate about innovation and education? Are you interested in transforming the exam experience for students across the globe? Do you possess strong leadership and communication skills? 

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. 

Bring your skills and experience to help us grow 

The Role 

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic digital product management expert to join us as the Head of Digital Product, responsible for developing early-stage digital products and propositions, as well as to lead a team of digital product managers. This role will focus on exploring new opportunities, defining capability roadmaps, and influencing strategy for the future of digital exams and learning. You will lead the way in driving the development of digital products that meet customer needs while delivering financial returns. 

You will collaborate closely with Product and Technology colleagues and a wide range of business stakeholders to ensure successful product delivery and alignment with commercial goals. This is an exciting opportunity to take the lead on innovative digital solutions that are shaping the future of education. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead and collaborate with Product Managers to gather customer and market insight to understand customer and user needs for a given product concept.  

• Liase with Product Managers, UX and Technology to determine requirements, driving product development from ideation to prototyping to maximize value for customers, users, and stakeholders. 

• Develop and communicate strategic direction for digital mocks and exams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and growth initiatives. 

• Evaluate commercial viability and success criteria to ensure product developments are financially sustainable and impactful. 

• Prioritize customer/user requirements and key dependencies to focus development resources, ensuring alignment with overarching product plans and strategy. 

• Identify new opportunities for growth, making evidence-backed, data-driven decisions on which opportunities to pursue. 

• Prepare business cases for new products, services, and product changes; garner cross-divisional support to ensure successful delivery. 

• Ensure the successful definition and execution of go-to market and communications strategies for all digital exam products. 

• Provide strong communication and public speaking to support dissemination of product strategy, as well as contribute to thought leadership.  

About you 

You are a successful product management professional with experience developing and delivering digital products to a range of customer markets in an educational or technology-driven environment. You have strong leadership skills with experience managing product teams and collaborating across functions and business stakeholders to achieve business goals.  

You possess an in-depth understanding of the commercial aspects of product development and delivery, including cost-benefit analysis, ROI, and market opportunity evaluation.  

You are an excellent communicator with a customer-centric mind-set and the ability to clearly articulate product vision, strategy, and business cases to stakeholders at all levels. 

You possess experience with Agile methodologies and the ability to work in an iterative, fast-paced development environment and have an analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data to make informed, evidence-based decisions. 

Finally, you will be passionate about making a difference through education, in line with Cambridge University's mission. 

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site. 

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: 

• Group personal pension scheme 

• Discretionary annual bonus 

• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary  

• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance  

• Green travel schemes  
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays 

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability. 

Ready to pursue potential? Apply now.  

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Friday 14th February 2025. 

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.  

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved 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.  

Why join us 

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential and innovation. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's 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's 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.