Position Title: Senior Product Manager
Reports to: Head of Product
Location: UK
Contract type: Permanent/Full Time
About BibliU
BibliU is an award-winning digital learning platform that enables access to digital textbooks and reading materials, making learning more equitable and effective. We partner with over 3,000 educational publishers, including Pearson, Oxford University Press, and Wiley, to offer a wide range of high-quality content to students. Our end-to-end solution provides tooling and data to empower faculty to make informed decisions and for students to find information faster. BibliU continues to reduce the cost of education significantly while increasing publisher sales.
Founded in late-2015, BibliU is a rapidly growing company transforming the way students and educators access and interact with learning materials. Our revenue has grown rapidly, with 150% YoY growth in the last three years. Last year, we raised $21m in a Series B funding round led by Nesta Impact Investments, with participation from Guinness Asset Management, Stonehage Fleming, and Oxford Sciences Enterprises.
We are a diverse and inclusive team of professionals who are passionate about education and technology. Our culture is fast-paced, innovative, and dynamic, and we are always looking for talented individuals to join our team and make us better. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career in EdTech, BibliU is the perfect place for you.
Position Overview
You will be joining a dynamic Product team which works across several functions: Management, Marketing and Acquisitions, and is fundamentally responsible for delivering improvements to the adoptions, implementation and management of digital content.
In a team of 2 Product Managers, a Product Strategist, Proposal Writer, and Designer, you will be empowered to support, mentor, guide and measure success across projects and initiatives, ensuring the Product team delivers greater outcomes and strategic business value. At times you will be responsible for overseeing complex dependency-heavy projects, working across discovery and delivery areas to bring clarity to and enable a culture of continuous feedback & opportunity assessment.
You will be managed by the Head of Product who will involve you in commercial opportunities assessing product and integration opportunities, as well as aligning on and driving a value-orientated inclusive product culture. This role will challenge you to learn, develop and upskill yourself, as well as those around you.
What you will be doing:
Assessing, validating and prioritising strategic, commercial and operational opportunities
Testing, training and documenting improvements and removing barriers to learning, understanding and delivering value
Working with customers to understand needs, and adeptly communicate planned improvements and manage expectations, enabling and empowering faster more confident delivery and discovery activities
Reviewing work of Product Managers and helping support them as they develop, and in turn receiving the same support across the entire product team
What we are looking for:
Must have
Exceptional communication, documentation and presentation skills
Compassion, empathy and humility and the confidence, drive and understanding to empower and enable others
Demonstrable experience monitoring and assessing the success of product improvements, and actioning iterative change/employing learnings
A focus on and understanding of project organization, delivery and management
Willingness to learn and unlearn
Respect for all others
Nice to have
Skill at mentoring, supporting and leading others to bring out their best skills/abilities without overexerting influence, control or input
Ability to translate complex concepts into clear, outcome driven statements
Ability to work effectively with engineers, designers and operational experts, understanding and investing in cross-team improvements
Experience working cross-functionally, and the ability to prioritize projects based on business impact
Self-regulation - to be calm under pressure
Assertiveness - to be able to work with others to bring about positive change
Familiarity with product management & analytics tools (Posthog, Linear)
Benefits
Our benefits are all aimed at supporting a healthy work-life balance and cultivating a company culture where you can bring your whole, human self to work.
Here's what we offer:
🌴 35 holiday days per year - yep, that’s not a typo!
🎂 Your birthday off
🌱 12 scheduled company wellness Fridays off per year
❤️ Enhanced maternity & paternity allowance
⏰ Flexible working hours - we’re a remote team spread across the US, the EU and UK!
💻 Work-from-home allowance to help you set up your dream WFH station
🚴 Cycle-to-work scheme
🩺 A choice of health insurance cover by Vitality or Bupa
We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds, experiences and identities to apply. Each new hire is an opportunity for us to bring in a different perspective and BibliU is committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone can do rewarding work.
