About FutureLearn

FutureLearn is transforming access to education. Backed by the Open University and based in London’s Camden Town, we offer online courses, programs and degrees run by many leading universities from around the globe.

Since our launch in September 2013, we’ve run hundreds of courses that have attracted over six million learners. They come to study a diverse range of topics, including business and management, healthcare, teaching and digital skills.

Our award-winning platform helps them learn by provoking conversation around the course material, so that learners and educators learn as much from each other as from the material itself.

About this role

Our vision is a global community, where everyone learns together and enjoys access to the education they need to transform their lives. We’re looking for a Product Manager to join our highly collaborative, 100-strong company, to help more learners discover and benefit from the FutureLearn community.

We’re looking for an aspiring Product Manager to join the team working our objective to grow the number of active learners using FutureLearn, whose skills and expertise will help us dramatically grow the global community accessing education. The role will report to the Senior Product Manager, who leads our multi discipline Discovery and Activation team and will be responsible for the day-to-day hands-on product management.

What you’ll be doing

Product Managers at FutureLearn are responsible for four key areas:

Understanding

Understanding and interpreting data and user research
Encouraging and managing ideas generated from learners, partners and staff
Working with marketers, developers and designers to understand complexity of different solutions

Planning

Evaluating and scoping opportunities based on learner, business and partner needs
Shaping the strategic direction of the product
Creating, managing and communicating roadmaps and backlogs for specific products
Developing explicit metrics to measure success and guide decision-making

Leading

Facilitate team decisions and resolving conflicts
Prioritising – (and saying ‘no’)
Defining and agreeing what ‘done’ looks like
Writing stories and defining scope
Celebrating success when the team’s outcomes are met
Encouraging innovation, both in what we create and how our product team works

Communicating

Communicating the vision for a product, as well as roadmaps and plans, to the team
Facilitating workshops with stakeholders and product team members
Contributing to regular meetings such as sprint reviews

Sharing information regularly with other teams to understand their plans

About you

You will have demonstrable experience of:

Working in a cross functional teams, ideally in a product management capacity
Significantly growing the audience of a consumer product
Working in partnership with marketing teams to shape and deliver acquisition strategies
Facilitating developers, designers, user researchers and others to successfully deliver projects in a hands-on way
Communicating ideas, numbers and vision to a range of stakeholders
Planning and prioritising product development

While you’ll need an appreciation of product management and agile principles, due to the nature of this role, we’re particularly interested in hearing from candidates with a background in marketing and acquisition.

In addition, you’ll have an interest in the future of education, thrive on exploring pioneering new ways of doing things and be passionate about creating delightful solutions.

Benefits

£40,000 – £50,000 salary, based on experience
28 days holiday
Flexible working environment/hours
Pension (4% employer / employee contribution)
Childcare tax vouchers / Season ticket loans / Bike to work scheme
Daily breakfast

We celebrate diversity at FutureLearn and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

Deadline: 03/07/2017 23:55 BST