Senior Product Manager

Job description

About Us

We are the world's largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have global impact.

About the Role

This role is in Oxford Languages, a department within Academic division that is focused on language content, data, and technology. The primary purpose is to lead a cross-functional innovation team focused on launching new digital B2B products that deliver growth by capitalizing on opportunities created by developments in language technology and artificial intelligence. You will engage with customers ranging from big tech giants to scrappy start-ups to understand their needs and translate them into a product strategy that maximizes the impact of Oxford Languages' unique assets and capabilities. You will manage a small team of Product professionals in defining and delivering roadmaps for a dynamic portfolio of products, and will champion and implement product management best practice across the product lifecycle.

Key responsibilities in this role will include:

• Devise and communicate a clear, customer-focused strategy that aligns priorities across the portfolio and drives active and innovative product roadmaps that solve validated user problems
• Apply and set a standard for effective product management throughout the entire product lifecycle, from strategic planning, to bringing new products to market, leading on continuous improvement, and overseeing product retirement
• Develop compelling business cases for significant initiatives that are aligned to department goals and capable of delivering long-term commercial success.
• Monitor the market and competitive landscape seeking insight into buyer and user problems in order to inform product development and contribute to positioning and marketing strategies
• Engage actively with Sales and Marketing colleagues to ensure that products are clearly positioned, propositions well understood and differentiated, and market opportunities identified
• Provide empathetic leadership as a line manager for your product team and as a senior colleague within your cross-functional team

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

Our ideal candidate would be someone who has experience of driving forward completely new digital products from ideation to launch and beyond. We're looking for someone who is passionate about market engagement and product discovery and a champion for effective product management methodologies. The successful candidate will thrive in a collaborative, cross-functional environment that values empathy and diverse perspectives.

Knowledge and experience required:

• Extensive experience managing a portfolio of digital products
• Track record of delivering business growth
• Demonstrated mastery of product development methodologies and best practice
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with high attention to detail
• Line management experience (preferred)
• Prior experience working with language technologies or artificial intelligence (preferred)

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact [email protected] with any queries relating to this role.

Please note this advert may be removed before the advertised end date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.