Product Director, EdTech

We partner with world-leading universities: Cambridge, LSE, King's College London, and soon-to-be-announced international expansion partners - to build employer-aligned, AI-powered Career Accelerators.

Real credentials, real skills, real career outcomes.

We are growing at 100% year on year, operating at around $20M USD revenue, and we are just getting started.

We have seven live CA programmes today.

We are building to eleven this year, and will double again in the following twelve to eighteen months.

We have a clear, planned expansion, so now we must scale a system that works.

To do it right, we need the infrastructure that matches our ambition.

That is what this role is for.

We are hiring a Product Director to own the operating system behind our programme portfolio: the processes, tooling, partner workflows, and development infrastructure that let us launch faster, run better, and scale without dropping quality.

This is an operational excellence and growth role for someone who thinks in systems, moves fast, has a genuine point of view on what great looks like, and is excited about what AI makes possible.

• About Fourth Rev
• Fourth Rev builds
• Career

Accelerators: intensive, employer-validated programmes that give professionals the skills they need to move into high-demand roles.

We do this in partnership with universities who bring academic credibility and learner trust, and employers and industry experts who help define the skills the market truly values.

What makes a Fourth Rev CA different

• Employer-validated curriculum: built around what hiring managers actually want
• University credential: trusted signal, real weight on a CV, real weight on a CV
• Elite facilitation: academic faculty and industry experts, not simply pre-recorded videos
• Live employer projects: real projects with real companies
• AI-enabled delivery: every element of the learner experience is being rebuilt with AI
• Peer cohort model: accountability, networks, and shared experience built in
• Holistic career support: coaching, employer connections, and outcome focus

We operate as a small, fast team. We do not have bureaucracy. We have standards.

The Role

Product Director at Fourth Rev is an operational leadership role.

You own the system that makes our programme portfolio work, from launch infrastructure to partner workflows to the tooling and processes that let a small team run a growing number of high-quality programmes simultaneously.

You have a clear point of view on what excellent looks like, and you use that judgement to push the product forward.

You make it faster, leaner, and better.

• WHAT YOU OWN
• Programme operations: the end-to-end infrastructure for launching, running, and iterating CA programmes at scale
• Product quality: a clear point of view on what excellent looks like across the learner experience, and the judgement to push the CA model forward based on it
• Launch velocity: reduce time to launch, reduce friction, increase repeatability without sacrificing quality
• Partner workflows: the processes by which we work with university and employer partners: clear, efficient, professional
• Tooling and systems: the tech stack, AI tooling, and process layer that sits beneath the programmes
• Operational data: understanding what is working, what is not, and why, using that to drive decisions
• Cross-functional coordination: aligning product, delivery, marketing, and partner success around a shared operating rhythm
• Scaling roadmap: building the infrastructure to go from 7 to 20+ CAs without breaking what is working
• WHAT YOU DON'T OWN

It is as important to be clear about this.

• Product vision and strategic direction is set by the Co-CEOs.

Your role is to translate that into an executable strategy, roadmap and operating model, to be the person who makes it real.

• Delivery: we have a Head of Delivery who owns learner-facing programme delivery and reports separately to a Co-CEO. You work closely with them; you do not manage them.
• Curriculum and content: you are not the academic lead. You and your teams work with faculty and industry experts; you do not define what we teach.
• WHO YOU WORK WITH

You report directly to the Co-CEOs and lead product development for the operational layer of the business.

Partner success, delivery, marketing, and technology all depend on the infrastructure you build and own.

You set the product operating cadence, you drive prioritisation, and you ensure that what gets planned actually gets shipped, on time and at quality.

• What Good Looks Like
• IN YOUR FIRST 30 DAYS
• Understand every live CA programme: how it runs, what breaks, where the friction is
• Map the current operational infrastructure: what exists, what is missing
• Build relationships with the heads of delivery, partner success, and Rev Ops
• Identify the three biggest operational bottlenecks slowing programme launch or quality
• Understand how AI is currently used in development and delivery, and identify where we are leaving value on the table
• Form a view on the quality of the current CA experience: what works, what does not, and where the bar needs to be raised
• IN YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS
• Own the operational plan for the next two CA launches: run them faster and more smoothly than anything we have done before
• Propose and begin implementing a scalable overhaul of our launch playbook
• Have a clear view of the tech and tooling gaps and a prioritised plan to close them
• Have a clear point of view on what a best-in-class CA looks like and where we currently fall short, with a plan to close the gap
• Be the person the team naturally routes operational questions and blockers to
• IN YOUR FIRST 180 DAYS
• The system works: we can launch a new CA without heroics
• Programme KPIs are improving and quality is measurably better, not just launch velocity
• We have a clear, repeatable operating model that supports 11 programmes and a credible path to 20
• AI is embedded meaningfully in our operational layer, not just a buzzword
• The Co-CEOs spend significantly less time on operational unblocking and significantly more on growth
• Who We're Looking For

ESSENTIAL

• Growth-oriented: you have worked in a fast-scaling environment and know how to build systems that grow. You do not build for today, you build for 3x
• Operationally excellent: you are obsessively good at making complex things run reliably and efficiently
• Product sense: you understand what a great learner experience looks like, not from an academic lens but from the perspective of someone who cares deeply about quality and outcome, you use that judgement constantly
• AI fluent: you use AI tools daily, fluently, and creatively. You are already ahead of most people in how you work, and you are excited about what comes next
• Commercial: you understand that operational excellence exists in service of growth and revenue, not just process for its own sake
• Cross-functional: you are comfortable working across technical, academic, commercial, and delivery functions: you translate, align, and unblock
• Direct and clear: you communicate with precision, give honest feedback, and make decisions without needing to build consensus for everything
• Passionate about education: you do not need a background in Ed Tech, but you need to care about what we are building and why it matters
• USEFUL BUT NOT REQUIRED
• Experience in Ed Tech or professional education
• Familiarity with LMS platforms, programme delivery tooling, or learning operations
• Experience working directly with university or corporate partners
• Background in product management or product operations
• What This Role Is Not
• We want to be clear with you. This role will not suit everyone. It will not suit you if:
• You are primarily motivated by academic quality or curriculum design. Both are critical but we have other experts for that. This role is about making the system work.
• You prefer a slow, deliberate, consensus-driven environment. We move fast. We decide and act. We course-correct quickly.
• You are passive about AI. We use AI to rethink how we work. If you are not actively using and learning AI tools, this is not the right place.
• You want to manage a large team. This is a cross-functional influence role, not a big headcount role. You lead through operational clarity, not org chart.
• Our Hiring Process

We run a fast, transparent process. We will not waste your time.

• Application review: we read every application
• Deep-dive interview: 60 minutes with the Co-CEOs
• Cross-functional interview: 60 minutes with leaders from other parts of the business
• Take-home assessment: 2 to 3 hours of focused work (see below)
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