- IB
- Cardiff, Cardiff
- Full-Time
- <48 Hours
Director of Product Management, School & Educator.
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Director of Product Management, School & Educator: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role leads product strategy and portfolio decisions for digital products serving schools, educators and education systems across many countries.
- The Person:The person will set and own product strategy and domain-level roadmaps, lead evidence-based prioritisation, hold accountability for product portfolio performance, and lead product management transformation across the domain.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate will bring product strategy, domain-level roadmaps, evidence-based prioritisation and AI capabilities embedded into product development.
About the role
Job Description
Salary: Up to £135,000 | €167,000, negotiable depending on experience
Job Type: UK - Full-Time, Permanent | Netherlands - Initial contract period of 12 months followed by an indefinite contract
Location: Cardiff, UK | The Hague, Netherlands
Hybrid working: minimum of 2 days in office every 2 weeks for team collaboration and leadership
About the IB
The International Baccalaureate provides world-class educational services to over 6,000 schools across 160 countries. A career with the IB is not just a job; it’s an opportunity to work with an innovative world leader in education services where we empower our employees to thrive and make a difference.
About the job
The IB is undertaking a major digital transformation, re-shaping the digital landscape of our IB ecosystem in order to enable our learning community to flourish in the AI age. The Director of Product Management is an IB product leader accountable for translating strategic intent, customer needs and technology investment into coherent, outcome-focused digital products and services. This role provides enterprise-level product leadership for the Schools and Educators domain, ensuring that product strategy, prioritisation, roadmaps and lifecycle decisions are aligned to the highest-impact outcomes for the IB’s 2M+ students, 6,000+ schools and 70,000+ educators across 160 countries.
This role has enterprise accountability for the product management discipline across digital products serving educators, school groups, school districts and government customers, working closely with engineering, UX, data, IT, digital partnerships, business owners and portfolio leadership.
Responsibilities
- Set and own product strategy and domain-level roadmaps for the Schools and Educators domain, translating IB strategy, user needs and market insight into clear product outcomes.
- Lead evidence-based prioritisation and shape product investment choices, expected outcomes, benefits, trade-offs and lifecycle implications for executive governance.
- Hold accountability for integrated product portfolio performance, including value realisation, adoption, risk, dependencies, quality and return on investment.
- Ensure product decisions are grounded in deep understanding of schools, educators, school groups, districts, government customers, market trends and operational realities.
- Align product, engineering, UX, data, IT, digital partnerships and business stakeholders around shared outcomes, sequencing, commitments and decision rights.
- Embed appropriate AI capabilities into product development and customer-facing digital experiences, with responsible design, measurable user value and operational readiness.
- Lead product management transformation across the domain, embedding product-led ways of working focused on outcomes, evidence, accountability and continuous improvement.
- Develop clear executive product narratives and reporting covering direction, choices, progress, customer impact, risks, dependencies and value realisation.
- Lead through senior product leaders, establishing clear accountabilities, standards, development pathways and product leadership capability across the team.