Job Title: Technical Product Manager – AI Centre of Excellence
Salary: £69,800 - £93,350
Location: Cambridge/Hybrid with 2-3 day office attendance per week
Contract: Permanent
Join Cambridge University Press & Assessment as a Technical Product Manager in our AI Centre of Excellence. Drive the development of innovative AI products that deliver exceptional value to our customers and accelerate AI capability across the organisation. Work at the frontier of AI development in education and assessment, collaborating with leading thinkers.
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 Technical Product Manager, you will:
- Lead the COE technical team to develop a portfolio of technical products enabling fast and responsible AI development.
- Coach and mentor Product Managers across the organisation, aligning and integrating AI roadmaps.
- Inform the wider CUP&A AI strategy and capability building.
- Own the complete product lifecycle, from concept through launch, growth, maturity, and evolution.
- Partner with designers and engineers to run discovery, prototype solutions, and gather customer feedback.
- Define product vision, outcomes, and success metrics aligned with business objectives.
- Manage stakeholder relationships and technical backlog, driving delivery against the roadmap.
- Oversee release strategy, change management, and continuous improvement post-launch.
- Influence product roadmaps across AI Pods, identifying synergies and opportunities to accelerate value delivery
About You
We're looking for someone with:
- 5+ years of product management experience and or equal proven success.
- Strong discovery skills: customer interviews, prototype testing, data analysis.
- Experience in cross-functional product teams and technical collaboration.
- Passion for solving customer problems and building elegant solutions for technical users.
- Awareness and experience with AI technologies.
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Strategic thinking, leadership, and the ability to coach and mentor others.
- Collaborative, resilient, and empowered approach to work.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
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
- Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 27th October 2025.
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 it's 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.
