At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead product vision for innovative student conversion solutions using AI and emerging tech.
- Company: Dynamic company focused on transforming university admissions and student experiences.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus scheme, generous leave, wellness support, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Join a vibrant, diverse culture with strong recognition programs and global mentorship opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in education while working with cutting-edge technology and a passionate team.
- Qualifications: Experience in product management, agile delivery, and a passion for helping international students.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
This position offers a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility between working from home and our office. Typically, employees are expected to work 2 days in the office per week.
As the Lead Product Manager, University Services, you will own the product vision and roadmap for QS University Services' student conversion solutions. You will lead the product vision behind an AI and emerging-tech-enabled approach to help universities admit, convert and enrol ambitious international and domestic students.
The opportunity
- Own the product vision and roadmap for QS University Services' student conversion solutions.
- Define and refine what we build, how it scales, and how AI and automation deliver better outcomes for students, our university partners, and the business.
Role responsibilities
- Set and evolve the product vision across conversion, admissions and digital outreach.
- Lead continuous discovery: research, hypotheses, MVPs, experimentation.
- Own a prioritised, evidence-based roadmap; balance quick wins with long-term capability.
- Embed AI and automation to drive student conversion at global scale.
- Partner with engineering, data, marketing and client delivery to ship and iterate.
- Define success metrics and let the data guide what comes next.
- Manage a small team.
Key skills and experience – Essential
- Product management experience in a tech-enabled services or platform environment.
- Track record owning roadmaps end-to-end—discovery through delivery.
- Agile delivery experience working hands-on with engineering teams.
- Strong stakeholder management in cross-functional, matrixed organisations.
- A data-led approach to decisions and trade-offs.
- Passionate about helping international students – our end users and most important stakeholders.
Key skills and experience – Bonus
- Higher education, student recruitment or admissions background.
- Understanding of HubSpot.
- Conversion optimisation or funnel management.
- Experience launching or transforming a major tech stack.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Access to an annual bonus scheme (for qualifying roles only).
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays – increasing to 27 days after 5 years.
- Access to a Buy Holiday scheme allowing you to buy up to 5 additional holiday days per year.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
- Generous pension through Royal London.
- Comprehensive private medical insurance and wellness scheme through Vitality.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- A vibrant social environment and multicultural and multinational culture.
- Free subscription to the Calm App – the #1 app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation.
- A focus on welfare led by our global wellness team, with mental health first aiders globally.
- Access to a variety of diversity and inclusion initiatives and groups.
- Strong recognition and reward programs – including a peer-to-peer recognition platform, quarterly and annual QS Applaud Awards, Connect with your Career annual PD event.
- Support for volunteering and study leave.
- Free subscription to LinkedIn learning – with over 5000 courses and programmes at your fingertips.
- Options to join our outstanding global Mentorship programme.
Equal opportunities
QS Quacquarelli Symonds is proud to be a fair and equal organisation where everyone has the same opportunity to achieve their full potential, irrespective of their background or personal attributes. We celebrate our diversity and believe through sharing our experiences we can learn from one another, be stronger together, and enable our business to thrive.
