Head of Product (School & Teachers)

Salary £93,130 + benefits (including 4.5 day week and 11% employer pension)

Team Product Seniority Senior

Perks and benefits:

• Work from home option
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Additional parental leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid emergency leave
• Mentoring/coaching
• Payroll giving
• Team social events

About the role:

Remote (UK-based) | Full-time - £93,130 + benefits (including 4.5-day week and 11% employer pension). Now is an exciting time to join the leadership of Oak's Product team. We're supporting the Department for Education in implementing a refreshed National Curriculum, playing an influential role in open, digital curriculum, and building on our established credibility in safe, pedagogically grounded AI, at a moment when the sector is moving fast. Oak is a fully remote, mission‑driven organisation offering high levels of flexibility, autonomy, and purpose. We’re a national not‑for‑profit organisation working in partnership with teachers to create high‑quality, sequenced curriculum and lesson resources for pupils across all subjects and age groups.

Our culture has been independently recognised through:

• Flexa verified (93% overall score, including 95% for working hours and 97% for role modelling)
• Escape the City's Top 1% Employers – based on anonymous colleague reviews of culture, development, and impact
• Investors in People Gold – through external accreditation and colleague feedback

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead, develop and manage a high‑performing department across Product squads and the Design discipline, supporting colleagues to grow and building relationships across Oak and beyond.
• Shape and deliver the Product strategy for Schools and Teachers, ensuring cross‑functional squads work effectively to achieve strategic priorities and continuously improve how they operate.
• Represent the Design discipline at a leadership level, line‑managing the discipline and supporting its evolution in a world of AI.
• Ensure every product delivers high‑quality, accessible, safe, pedagogically rigorous experiences for teachers, schools and pupils and that these products can scale and have impact.
• Develop our use of AI, ensuring it stays safe, pedagogically robust and aligned with Oak's curriculum principles.
• Maintain deep expertise in digital product management, product strategy and design, providing thought leadership across Oak and representing the organisation externally where appropriate.
• As a member of the leadership team, contribute to Oak's strategy and planning, and model our culture across the organisation.
• Manage the Product budget (six figures), sharing Product Management budget with the Head of Product (Ecosystem) and owning the Design budget.
• Deputise for the Director of Product, and take on other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in product development, including at least 2 years setting product strategy across multiple teams/squads in a product‑centric organisation.
• Experience in recruiting, managing and leading high‑performing teams.
• Experience in managing a significant budget.
• Demonstrable experience of designing, implementing and continuously improving agile ways of working.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting high‑performing teams outside of your own areas of expertise.
• Experience of identifying and integrating opportunities presented by AI into products and/or ways of working, with a thoughtful approach to quality, safety and responsible use.
• Good understanding of pedagogy, education policy and the UK education system (desirable).

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave, plus one extra day for each year of service (up to 28).
• Additional Oak closure days over Christmas/New Year.
• 11% employer pension contribution (with no minimum employee contribution, which can be varied as you choose).
• A 36‑hour working week, with half‑days on Fridays or every other Friday off.
• Fully remote working – we’ll support your home set‑up and offer coworking options if preferred.
• Twice‑yearly in‑person whole Oak offsites to collaborate, connect, and have fun (with other occasional team events in person).
• A culture that genuinely supports flexibility, autonomy, and trust.

Inclusion and Belonging:

We believe diverse teams build better products. We warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds, particularly those who are underrepresented in the tech and education sectors. If you're from an underrepresented group, there's a good chance you're discounting yourself before you've even started. That's more common than you'd think, and it means we may miss out on brilliant people. If you're excited by this role but don't meet every requirement, please apply anyway. We use the Applied platform to help reduce bias in our hiring process. Answers are anonymised and reviewed by a panel of humans.

Equal Opportunity:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.