Director, Product (education)

Description:

To be successful in this role, you must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the market, customers, and competitive pressures affecting the product portfolio. You will spearhead the strategy formation and execution and understand how to derive and prioritise product value for customers and create clear strategies for realising this value across our customer base driving business profitability.

You will be competent in lean product development, with a focus on innovation, continuous improvement, and positive disruption. You’ll know how to get the best from data analytics through analysis, be able to articulate the true value of the research and discovery, and be experienced in bringing out the best in design and UX.

This is a great opportunity for you to join a growing and investing product and customer-centric business, with a significant opportunity for you to share and grow your skillset.

What will you be doing?

• Drive the full product lifecycle across the portfolio
• The creation and delivery of a clear vision based on customer and user outcomes, working across multiple markets and stakeholder groups.
• Be the glue across the business, from commercial through to operations, to ensure the success of your product.
• Understand the market and competitors and seek out enhancements to give the product solution a competitive advantage
• To deal with escalations from the support and implementation teams
• Be fully responsible for the GTM process

Experience and Knowledge

• Experienced Product Director or Educationalist, with 7+ years related product management experience; 2+ years of Product Director-level experience
• Experience in wider Education software solutions would be advantageous
• Excellent track record with taking products to market and optimising existing products
• Demonstrable experience in engaging with and putting the customer first
• Proven leadership skills, to articulate and ‘sell’ your vision for your portfolio
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job. Decisive, logical, and analytically driven decision-maker.
• Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrix organisation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good commercial understanding
• Understanding of modern lean agile software development processes
• Disciplined management ability: caring about process, quality, setting and managing expectations