Salary: £49,300 - £65,950
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid
Contract: Permanent Full-time
Join Our Team as Digital Capabilities Product Owner
Do you have a passion for transforming digital products and services? We're looking for someone with strategic thinking, curiosity and user empathy to join our team as a Digital Capabilities Product Owner. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of how we operate our product offerings, working closely with a range of cross functional colleagues, including Product Owners, Assessment and Validation specialists, Architects and other key stakeholders across the IELTS Partnership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Strategy and Planning: Collaborate on the vision and strategy for the capabilities that enable us to operate our digital products to delight our customers and support our business. Develop a roadmap for new features and enhancements, and engage stakeholders to ensure alignment and buy-in.
- Collaborative Leadership: Work closely with the wider product team to ensure seamless coordination and alignment with overall objectives.
- Product Delivery: Focus your team on achieving business and product outcomes to deliver our strategy.
- Business Change, Readiness, and Transition: Enable launch of new features through effective communication and readiness activities.
About us:
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About you
You will have:
- Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in a technology-driven or education environment.
- Strong understanding of business operations, processes, and systems.
- Experience working with internal users and cross-functional teams to develop software solutions.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
- Analytical mindset and proficiency in leveraging data to drive decision-making and deliver business insights.
- Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban.
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 your potential? Apply now.
At Cambridge University Press & Assessment we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth. Join our team to make a lasting impact and drive our digital transformation initiative forward.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Monday, 16th June and interviews are scheduled to take place on week commencing 23rd June.
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 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.
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 everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.
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.
