Salary: £38,300 - £49,775 per annum
Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity for a Product Development Manager to join our International Education team. In this role, you will play a key part in developing innovative teaching and learning products that support educators and learners worldwide, helping us deliver on our mission to unlock potential through education.
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
As a Product Development Manager, you will play a key role in the development and delivery of products within our portfolio, ensuring they meet customer needs, align with our strategic goals, and are delivered on time, to budget, and to high quality standards. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners to bring impactful products to life, from concept through to delivery and continuous improvement.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
- Conducting market research, analysing customer insights, and monitoring competitor activity to inform product development
- Managing the development and delivery of products in line with agreed roadmaps and success metrics
- Commissioning and managing external suppliers (e.g. authors, consultants) to deliver high-quality outputs
- Overseeing editorial and quality assurance processes to maintain consistency and excellence
- Collaborating with colleagues across product, marketing, customer support, and international teams to ensure alignment
- Gathering and acting on customer feedback to continuously improve product performance and user experience
- Reviewing processes and ways of working to drive operational excellence and efficiency
This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.
About You
You will bring proven experience in a product or content related role, with the ability to manage the end-to-end delivery of products from concept through to launch and continuous improvement. You will have strong analytical skills, using market research, customer insights, and competitor analysis to inform decision-making and shape product direction. A key part of your experience will include effective stakeholder management, demonstrating the ability to collaborate across teams and build strong working relationships with both internal and external partners. You will also have strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritise workloads, meet deadlines, and deliver to time, cost, and quality expectations. Finally, you will demonstrate a customer-focused mindset, using feedback and insight to improve products and deliver meaningful outcomes for users.
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:
- Experience in education, publishing or learning products
- Knowledge of digital product development or EdTech trends
- Experience working in international or culturally diverse markets
For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.
We are a Disability Confident (DC) 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 best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.
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 4 x annual salary
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 21st June. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from week commencing 29th June.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- One stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
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.
