Product Owner, Avado
4 days a week in office
Digital learning platform
Job no longer available
Digital learning platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To develop digital capabilities and confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in a product, programme or content-led role (e.g. Product Owner, Product Manager, Content Manager or similar), ideally within online learning
- Strong track record of delivering products from concept to launch
- Experience working with LMS platforms (e.g. Thought Industries or similar)
- Commercially minded – able to balance user needs with revenue and cost considerations
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, evolving environments with multiple priorities
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Outcome-driven, pragmatic and delivery-focused
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to create structure quickly
- Data-led decision maker
- Collaborative, with a strong bias for action
Desirable
- Experience building community-led or subscription products
- Exposure to AI-enabled product development
- Experience working with SMEs and content production (e.g. video-based learning)
- Understanding of professional education and the HR landscape (e.g. CIPD or similar professional bodies), including how HR professionals engage with learning and development
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Director of Product & Operations, this role will play a critical part in delivering Avado’s next phase of growth – shaping and scaling our corporate training offer and leading the evolution of our HR community platform, Avado Connect
- You will own the end-to-end development of products that sit at the heart of our corporate training and community growth strategy – building commercially viable, engaging and scalable experiences that expand Avado’s reach, deepen learner engagement and create new revenue streams
- Own the product lifecycle from discovery through to delivery and iteration
- Translate strategic priorities into clear product roadmaps and deliverables
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Tech, Sales and Marketing to ship high-quality products at pace
- Ensure products are delivered on time, within scope and aligned to commercial targets
- Own the evolution and relaunch of Avado Connect as a scaled community for HR professionals
- Define and deliver features that drive engagement, retention and lead generation
- Develop a clear value proposition for different audience segments (learners, alumni, wider HR market, enterprise)
- Monitor adoption, engagement and conversion metrics; iterate accordingly
- Lead the build and launch of online CPD courses and live online bootcamps
- Translate SME input into structured, high-quality digital learning experiences
- Ensure consistency in format, quality and learner experience across the CPD portfolio
- Work with Marketing and Sales to support go-to-market and commercial success
- Identify and validate new product opportunities aligned to market demand
- Run lean discovery – testing concepts quickly and cost-effectively
- Build business cases with clear ROI and scalability potential
- Support pilot launches and scale successful products
- Embed AI-enabled tools and workflows into product design (e.g. content generation and learner feedback)
- Partner with Tech to integrate tools such as internal platforms and third-party solutions
- Drive efficiency gains in delivery without compromising quality
- Act as the central point of coordination across internal teams and external partners (SMEs, production, tech vendors)
- Communicate progress, risks and trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders
- Work closely with leadership to align product delivery to strategic priorities
- Key Measures of Success (KPIs):
- Growth and engagement of Avado Connect (adoption, active users, conversion to paid products)
- Successful launch and performance of CPD products (revenue, learner satisfaction, completion rates)
- Delivery of product roadmap milestones on time and within budget
- Contribution to improved learner outcomes (e.g. pass rates, NPS)
- Demonstrable efficiency gains (cost reduction, time to deliver, automation impact)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Avado offers practical programs for businesses to equip themselves with the requisite digital knowledge, competency and behaviour in an attempt to fill the growing digital skills gap.
Since its conception in 2016, Avado has positioned itself as a key player in the digital learning space, delivering programs to thousands of businesses worldwide, including CNN, The Walt Disney Company, American Express and GSK. Its services have since become an industry standard given the quality, with the Department of Education employing Avado to run critical skills bootcamps.
With time, Avado has broadened its mission, recently partnering with BT Group to create FastFuture programmes to support thousands of adults from underrepresented backgrounds to gain employment skills. After recently anointing a new CEO, it will be interesting to see how else Avado will transform the industry moving forward.
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Company benefits
- Holidays – 25 days plus bank public holidays, increasing by 1 day after 2 years and a further day after 4 years
- A day off on or around your birthday, and a birthday gift of your choice
- Discounts at 250+ retailers
- Free coffee from Caffe Nero or a pastry from Greggs, weekly, as well as a free film to stream monthly, AND heavily discounted cinema tickets
- Cycle2Work scheme, even if work is predominantly at home!
- Statutory pension and life assurance
- What we call ‘accountable flexibility’ that you can expect from a hybrid working environment, with an office in London and Birmingham to use in line with our business cadence
- Various opportunities to gain an immersive experience into the broad range of Avado products and proposition
- Virtual mindfulness activities on Mondays and Friday
- On-demand access to a professional business / executive coach
- Curated personal development and learning tools, courtesy of Magpie
- Periodic opportunities to give back by mentoring learners on our FastFutures diversity-focused employability programme
- Free access to a virtual GP
Company HQ
Shepherd's Bush, London, UK
Leadership
Alexis Reagan
(CEO)Previously worked as the Director of Learning Experience at Avado, was a Customer Success Manager at Arch Apprentices and was a Director of Curriculum at Creative Pioneers London.
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