Job Description

Salary: 49,300 - 65,950
Location: Cambridge
Country: UK
Business Unit: Cambridge International
Vacancy Type: Fixed Term
Closing Date: 20 October 2025

Meet the recruiter

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Ashley De Los Reyes


leenarc.delosreyes@cambridge.org



Salary: 49,300 - 65,950



Location: Cambridge, Hybrid



Contract: Fixed term (18 months), Full - time (35 hours per week)





Are you an experienced Digital Product Manager with a passion for creating products and services that customers love? If so, this could be your next career move.



We embrace change and drive innovation to meet the evolving needs of our customers around the world. In this role, you'll be encouraged to explore new ideas, be bold, and stay focused on the impact we can make on individuals and society.



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

About the role

We are looking for a Digital Product Manager to join our team, where you will play a key role in managing the full lifecycle of our digital products and services--from discovery to delivery.



As International Education expands its portfolio of digital solutions that support teachers and learners worldwide, you will contribute by deeply understanding user needs, continuously enhancing the customer experience, and driving sustainable growth.



A key part of this growth is our newly launched Access and Onboarding workstream, which aims to help users achieve faster time-to-value through a more efficient and unified onboarding experience across our platforms, including Cambridge GO, Teach Cambridge, Cambridge Insights, and Digital High Stakes.



This is an exciting opportunity for a Digital Product Manager who is passionate about building impactful digital experiences and eager to help shape the future of education. If you're ready to make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.



What you will be doing:


Ensuring the customer is represented in all product decisions through an ongoing customer engagement and data analytics plan Defining and communicating the vision for a digital product or service Working in partnership with: + multiple product teams, to understand their vision and roadmaps, and to ensure they are deriving value from our central Access and Onboarding workstream + our technology team, to turn product roadmaps into development sprints
+ our UX team, to manage the end-to-end customer experience of the product
+ key customers, to integrate our products and services with their school systems
Developing, maintaining and updating the roadmap for a product to meet diverse and changing international requirements Robustly managing the priorities within that roadmap Managing the day-to-day issues that come with running a live digital product Being the internal face of the product to secure the buy in and support of a diverse set of global stakeholders, including publishing, data, architecture, technology, customer services, marketing and sales teams Further embedding a product management culture in a global organisation

In your first month you can expect to:


Participate in problem and solution workshops with the Access and Onboarding product trio Join pre-refining and backlog refinement calls with our dev teams and to begin to take responsibility for writing stories and Acs Assume ownership of some day-to-day PM functions

In your first 3 months you can expect to:


Take ownership of one of two Access and Onboarding sub stream backlogs Participate in user research Participate in/lead business stakeholder working groups Become involved in supporting key customers integrating with our systems

About You

To be successful in this role, you will:


Have solid experience in digital product management, with a proven track record of managing all aspects of the product lifecycle. Be a skilled and knowledgeable contributor in planning and refinement meetings, collaborating effectively with architecture, solutions, development, and QA teams. Have hands-on experience working closely with remote development and QA teams. Be creative, determined, and pragmatic--able to drive the product vision and roadmap while taking ownership of its success. Be confident in building relationships, influencing, and galvanising a diverse set of global stakeholders across all levels within a matrix organisation. Be curious and insightful, with a strong ability to uncover customer needs and understand the end-to-end customer experience. Be highly collaborative--we value teamwork and expect you to be comfortable asking for help and supporting others to achieve the best outcomes. Be familiar with agile and lean product development methodologies, with a flexible and adaptive mindset. Understand the challenges of product management and be comfortable navigating ambiguity and change. Ideally, have experience with Scrumban. Ideally, bring experience from the education or educational publishing sector--though transferable skills from other industries are equally valued.

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 4 x annual salary Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.



If you choose to apply, please include a short cover letter with your application, making sure you specify you are applying for this vacancy. We look forward to hearing from you.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.



We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being

20

th

October

. Interviews are scheduled to begin on week commencing

27

th

October.

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

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. 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.