Product Development Director - Learning

Job Title: Product Development Director - Learning

Salary: Competitive

Location: Cambridge, UK or Madrid, Spain

Contract: Permanent, Full time - 35 hours per week

Are you passionate about creating impactful learning experiences? Join us as our Product Development Director and lead a global team in shaping high-quality, innovative English learning products that meet the evolving needs of learners worldwide.

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 part of the Propositions senior leadership team, you will oversee the development of our English learning and ILA portfolio, ensuring products are pedagogically sound, commercially viable, and technologically advanced. You will play a key role in defining and delivering on our product strategy and leading transformation across print and digital formats.

You will be pivotal in shaping the future of our product offerings, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and effectiveness in both print and digital formats to allow Cambridge to continue to lead the market.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead global product development:
  • Manage a large, global team to deliver high-quality learning products, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and market needs.
• Drive product strategy and innovation:
  • Define and execute product strategy, integrating the latest educational technologies and methodologies to maintain market leadership.
• Oversee lifecycle and delivery:
  • Lead the product development lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery, customer focus, and budget adherence.
• Collaborate across functions:
  • Work closely with Portfolio, Technology, Learning Operations, Commercial, and other teams to ensure product success and market fit.
• Ensure quality and compliance:
  • Maintain high standards across all products, ensuring they meet educational regulations and deliver measurable impact.

About you

You are a strategic and visionary leader with deep experience in educational publishing or EdTech. You thrive in complex, fast-paced environments and are driven by the opportunity to shape the future of learning.

We are looking for someone who can lead transformation, inspire teams, and deliver results through innovation and collaboration.

You will bring:

• Proven experience in senior leadership within educational publishing or EdTech.
• Expertise in digital-first or blended learning product development.
• Strong strategic planning and product lifecycle management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• A passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and learner impact.

We welcome applications from candidates who are able to work from either our Cambridge office or our Madrid office.

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 4th January 2026. First round interviews are scheduled to take place either week commencing 12th or 19th January 2026. Second round interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 26th January 2026.

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.