Lead, Product Management

• Define and execute the global strategy and roadmap for institutional courseware


• Manage portfolio investments, prioritisation, localisation, innovation, and product lifecycle decisions


• Act as the senior product authority and provide strategic recommendations to the ELL Leadership Team


• Build understanding of learners, educators, institutions, ministries, and partners across priority markets


• Use customer insight, market trends, learning evidence, and performance data to drive product and investment decisions


• Support strategic customer and ministry engagements alongside Sales teams


• Translate strategy into value propositions, product roadmaps, and requirements


• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver learning solutions balancing customer value, learning effectiveness, quality, speed, and commercial outcomes


• Validate opportunities through customer research, pilots, and data-driven decision-making


• Drive the evolution from print-first products to digital, blended, and AI-enabled learning experiences


• Identify and scale responsible AI opportunities


• Ensure AI-enabled products meet standards for transparency, safety, privacy, accessibility, and intellectual property compliance


• Develop business cases, pricing strategies, and investment recommendations


• Partner with Sales, Finance, and Revenue Operations to achieve customer, learning, revenue, profitability, and ROI objectives


• Optimise, reposition, or retire underperforming products


• Establish and monitor learning, adoption, engagement, satisfaction, retention, revenue, and profitability metrics


• Lead and develop a global team of approximately 15 product professionals


• Foster excellence in product management, customer discovery, strategy, commercial thinking, and AI-enabled product development


• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer focus

Requirements

• Relevant experience in product management, portfolio leadership, general management, or a related field


• Experience leading multiple teams or managing managers


• Proven success setting strategy and making investment choices across complex product, market, or customer portfolios


• Track record of turning customer insight into differentiated products and successful commercial outcomes


• Experience owning business cases and managing performance against revenue, profitability, customer, and return expectations


• Strong judgement in investment, prioritisation, pricing, packaging, and portfolio rationalisation


• Experience leading cross-functional product development in a global, matrixed organisation


• Experience building product teams and developing product leaders


• Education, publishing, courseware, EdTech, or learning-products experience strongly preferred


• Experience applying AI, data, or emerging technology to products preferred


• No specific degree is required; relevant experience and demonstrated outcomes are valued


• Strong commercial and strategic acumen


• Expertise in product strategy, portfolio management, customer discovery, roadmap development, and stakeholder engagement


• Data- and evidence-led decision-making using customer insight, learning science, analytics, and sound judgement


• Experience leading global teams and influencing senior stakeholders


• Practical understanding of AI and machine learning concepts, including prompt engineering and applying AI to products, workflows, and decision-making


• Hands-on model development expertise is not required

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in product management, portfolio leadership, and strategic decision-making, with a focus on AI-enabled learning solutions and customer-centric product development. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive commercial outcomes through data-driven insights and market understanding.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Product Management


• Portfolio Leadership


• AI-Enabled Product Development


• Data-Driven Decision-Making


• Cross-Functional Team Leadership

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Product Strategy


• Portfolio Management


• Roadmap Development


• Customer Discovery


• Investment Decision-Making


• Pricing Strategy


• Performance Management


• Market Analysis


• AI Application


• Learning Science

Soft Skills

• Strategic Acumen


• Judgement


• Collaboration


• Innovation


• Accountability

Industry Keywords

• EdTech


• Courseware


• Education


• Publishing


• Learning Products