Product Manager, FutureLearn
UK-led global learning platform
Job no longer available
UK-led global learning platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
FutureLearn’s purpose is to transform access to education.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in Product Management and experience running product teams
- A commercial mindset and experience within an Enterprise SaaS / B2B setting, having successfully managed integrations and API ecosystems
- Track record of delivering initiatives to tight deadlines
- Proven experience in successful product delivery and proactively driving forward initiatives
- Experience in lean methodologies and collaboration techniques and being able to articulate how you’ve applied lean principles in a practical sense on products you’ve worked on in the past
- Strong communication skills, be comfortable negotiating with stakeholders and discussing problems and solutions with your team
- You’re a people person - you’re curious both from a customer and stakeholder perspective, by developing solid working relationships you drive better product decisions
What the job involves
- The Product Manager will be a key part of our cross functional team working on Enterprise and Business to Business (B2B)
- Work with business stakeholders and customers to guide the development of our enterprise products, content distribution and integration with 3rd party enterprise platforms
- Working with Enterprise, Government and Partnership sales teams to provide solutions for our clients, the role will require an understanding of APIs and integration ecosystems
- Deliver high quality enterprise and B2B products, working with Enterprise, Government and Partnership sales teams to understand business and customer needs
- Communicating the approach for Enterprise products and keeping people across the organisation informed and aligned with direction and progress
- Motivate and effectively manage a team to efficiently build and integrate Enterprise products
- Agree key success criteria and reporting on product performance
- Managing validated delivery objectives through the agile development life cycle, making sure there is a constant stream of value and regular feedback opportunities
- Identifying and solving the needs of customers through innovative use of technology
- Be seen as the go-to-person in your domain
- You inspire your product team and others to go beyond what they thought possible
- Proactively partner with key stakeholders to deliver the future direction of B2B products as part of the wider business strategy
- Managing and launching initiatives that may have dependencies with other programmes
- Working with the Tech Lead and engineering team to maintain and expand our capabilities
- Articulate progress and manage expectations of business stakeholders, communicating and explaining changes, and prioritising requests according to value
- Keeping the FutureLearn customer in mind as you work with other teams throughout the business to provide products and services
- Working with the Tech Lead to write user stories and acceptance criteria, breaking down delivery into small, trackable chunks and delivering value as early as possible
- Making sure internal and external stakeholders are kept up to date with appropriate regular updates and clear communications when changes are scheduled
- Balance technical improvements with business value, making sure there is a keen focus of value-driven prioritisation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Massive open online courses (MOOC) have taken off in the previous decade. Companies such as Udemy, Coursera and Lynda.com have led this wave.
FutureLearn is a UK-led global learning platform, founded in 2012 with the mission to transform access to education by offering top online courses from the world’s leading universities and brands. In November 2022, the company was acquired by Global University Systems (owners and operators of one of the world’s most diverse networks of higher education institutions). Subsequently, FutureLearn's CEO Andy Hancock stepped down, and the company's primary subscription plan, "Unlimited", was raised in price.
FutureLearn has set itself apart in the fast-growing market for higher education and lifelong learning, helping 10's of millions of learners globally, and has longstanding relationships with leading higher education institutions, including more than 150 UK Universities. However, FutureLearn's turbulent year and price rise signal difficulty moving forward as an acquired company. Its price hike is comparable to the price of Coursera's subscription. The latter has a wider back catalogue to bolster its cost, though.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2019
$66.4m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $66.4m
Company benefits
- Calm Premium Subscription
- Westfield Health Cash Plan
- Buy up to 5 additional days of holiday
- Volunteer for a charity of your choice for a day
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- 28 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Hybrid Working
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Vitaly Klopot
(COO)Currently Chief Innovation and Commercial Officer at Arden University, Board Member at Dignity Health Global Education, Host of The Business of Education Podcast. Previously COO of Global University Systems.
Ian Howell
(Managing Director)Previously the CEO of Higher Ed Partners and the COO of Open Universities Worldwide. Also worked as a Global Head of Lipper at Thomas Reuters and was an Army Officer in the British Army.
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