Lead, Product Management

Jobtailor; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Jobtailor is seeking a senior product leader to define and execute the global strategy for institutional courseware. You will shape the portfolio, prioritise investments, and guide localisation and product lifecycle decisions across priority markets.

You will lead a global team of around 15 product professionals, partnering with Sales, Finance, and Revenue Operations to achieve revenue, profitability, and ROI objectives, while advancing AI-enabled learning experiences with a strong focus on

Formación

• Experience in product management, portfolio leadership, or general management across complex product lines.
• Proven ability to set strategy and make investment decisions in global, matrixed organisations.
• Track record turning customer insight into differentiated products with strong commercial outcomes.
• Experience owning business cases and managing performance against revenue and profitability metrics.
• Strong judgement in prioritisation, pricing, packaging, and portfolio rationalisation.
• Experience leading global product development teams and developing product leaders.

Responsabilidades

• Define and execute the global strategy and roadmap for institutional courseware.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver learning solutions balancing customer value and business outcomes.
• Develop business cases, pricing strategies, and investment recommendations.
• Partner with Sales, Finance, and Revenue Operations to align customer, learning, revenue, profitability, and ROI objectives.
• Drive evolution from print-first to digital, blended, and AI-enabled learning experiences.

Conocimientos

Product Management

Portfolio Leadership

AI-Enabled Product Development

Data-Driven Decision-Making

Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Herramientas

Product Strategy

Portfolio Management

Roadmap Development

Customer Discovery

Investment Decision-Making

Pricing Strategy

Performance Management

Market Analysis

AI Application

Learning Science

Descripción del empleo

• 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