Principal Product Manager (Edtech)

TL;DR

Principal Product Manager (Edtech): Owning product vision, roadmap, and strategy for core domains like TimeTabler, a mature on-premise school timetabling product, with an accent on replatforming, customer migration, and modernisation. Focus on leading discovery, stakeholder alignment, cross-functional collaboration, and measuring impact through data in complex edtech environments.

Location: Remote, UK. Unable to provide visa sponsorship.

Salary: up to £100,000 per annum

Company

Edtech company building school management tools used in over 12,500 schools and trusts, focused on improving staff efficiency and wellbeing through data insights.

What you will do

• Own product vision, roadmap, and strategy for core domains like TimeTabler, balancing established product needs with long-term business goals.
• Lead discovery processes, combining customer needs, market analysis, and commercial viability across the product portfolio.
• Champion user-centric solutions by guiding cross-functional teams in engineering, design, and commercial areas to test and validate features.
• Influence senior stakeholders to align on vision, strategy, and roadmap while embedding strong product practices team-wide.
• Use data to measure and communicate product impact, contributing to outcome-focused discussions.
• Maintain expertise in edtech landscape, business context, and user needs as a strategic domain leader.

Requirements

• Significant experience in product management and leadership in complex or data-related domains.
• Experience maintaining and improving established products in technically complex environments, especially legacy or on-premise systems.
• Proven track record in replatforming, migrating customer bases, and driving transformative change based on customer and commercial insights.
• Strong ability to articulate narratives, communicate complex ideas, and influence diverse stakeholders from team to executive level.
• Comfort with ambiguity, data-driven decision-making, and delivering measurable business results.
• Passion for edtech and interest in AI-assisted or agentic workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements, 32 days holiday plus bank holidays, enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
• Comprehensive wellness benefits including 24/7 virtual GP, mental health support, private dental insurance, and life assurance.
• Salary sacrifice pension, professional development budget, volunteer day, and access to wellbeing apps like Calm.
• Wellbeing team initiatives: mindfulness, mental health training, lunch & learns, social events.
• Diversity and inclusion focus with neurodiversity support and equal opportunities.

Hiring process

• Phone screen.
• 1st stage interview.
• 2nd stage with presentation.