Head of Curriculum Product

Department: Product & Technology

Location: Home based, UK (with occasional travel to our London office)

Reports to: Director of Curriculum

Hours: 37.5  per week

Salary: Depending on experience

Role Overview: 

As the Head of Curriculum Product, you will be a key leader within the department, responsible for delivering the overarching product strategy while leading a high-performing team. This role requires a unique blend of strategic vision, technical depth in AI and a hands-on approach to product ownership. 

In addition to your leadership responsibilities, you will retain hands-on product ownership, working closely with cross-functional teams—including content developers, subject matter expert trainers and the curriculum team—to design and deliver high-quality training programmes. You will also collaborate with the delivery, sales and marketing teams to support the adoption, rollout and ongoing success of new programmes within business-as-usual operations.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the definition and delivery of the long-term product roadmap and strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and evolving market trends.
• Identify new market opportunities and translate them into actionable, scalable product initiatives.

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of Product Managers, providing strategic guidance and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Manage resource allocation across the product portfolio to ensure strategic objectives are met on time and within scope.
• Oversee performance reviews, professional development, and the growth of individual team members.
• Define and monitor key performance indicators to measure product success, user engagement and ROI.

• Retain direct product ownership for specific high-impact products within the portfolio.
• Act as the primary Product Manager for these specific products, managing the full lifecycle from discovery and requirements gathering to delivery and iteration.
• Collaborate directly with engineering teams to scope technical requirements and manage Agile delivery processes.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Delivery) to ensure successful product adoption and go-to-market execution.

Candidate Specification: 

Essential

• Strategic Leadership: Proven experience delivering product strategy and vision in a fast-paced technology environment.
• Technical Background: A strong technical foundation with a deep understanding of Machine Learning, Data Science or AI and data-driven product development.
• Product Expertise: Extensive experience as a Product Manager, with a track record of managing complex, high-growth products.
• People Management: Demonstrated success in line management, having mentored and developed Product Managers or cross-functional teams.
• Analytical Rigour: Strong skills in data analysis, user research, and ROI estimation to support data-driven decision-making.
• Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and technical teams alike.

Desirable

• Experience in high-growth B2B or B2C SaaS environments.
• Proficiency with technical and collaboration tools such as Git, Notion and Slack.

Company Benefits: 

• Pension with 4% matched contributions, opportunity to opt into salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave 
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated company counsellor

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m. 

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.  Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.