Senior Product Manager in London

Location: London HQ (Oval) | Hybrid (3 days in office)

Type: Full-time

Our vision is that every child deserves a better start toward the best possible future. The right educator in the right classroom at the right time can change a child’s chances and, at scale, a nation’s trajectory. At Zen Educate, we’re changing that through technology: helping schools save millions in tight times, helping educators find work that rewards their skills and fits their lives, and building a better-educated society that invests its best in every child.

The software, tools, systems, processes, and people are how we make it happen. We’ve already helped schools save over £30 million so far. Now we’re scaling fast in the UK and US, and the next chapter is about building the machine that keeps delivering that outcome at scale.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager who’s outcome-obsessed, data-savvy and happy being in the messy middle where product, people and process meet. This isn’t a people-management role, although it will require a great deal of leadership. It’s an individual contributor role for a savvy Product Operator who still loves building: defining problems, finding leverage and turning ambiguity into momentum.

If you like figuring things out, getting teams moving and seeing your work directly improve real people’s lives, you’ll enjoy this.

At Zen, “product” doesn’t stop at the software. Sometimes the right answer is a feature. Sometimes it’s an operational tweak, a better metric or a mindset shift that changes how people work. You’ll care more about the outcome than about what shape the solution takes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Frame real problems and find the shortest path to proving or disproving them.
• Combine qualitative insight with quantitative data to guide priorities.
• Work closely with design, engineering and ops to ship, learn and repeat.
• Define success metrics that link to business outcomes.
• Keep improving how we do product at Zen through better tools, habits and feedback loops.

You’ll be in the thick of it: shaping, testing, talking to users, untangling blockers and helping the team focus on what moves the needle.

The kind of PM we’re looking for:

• You’re calm in the chaos and curious in the unknown.
• You’re a natural mediator who can hold multiple perspectives and help a team find alignment without fuss.
• You’re a restless learner who collects ideas and frameworks for fun.
• You’re at your best when something is fuzzy and needs shaping into something testable.
• You get itchy when there’s too much uncertainty and have a near-compulsive need to turn ambiguity into action.

The experience we think helps:

• 5–8 years building and scaling digital products or systems with measurable impact in a marketplace business, preferably in EdTech or adjacent verticals.
• Experience running discovery, experiments and delivery end-to-end.
• Comfort working with data (spreadsheets, dashboards, SQL if needed).
• Strong collaboration with engineers, designers and operations.
• Evidence of making complex systems simple and usable.

What you’ll get:

• Competitive salary + stock options.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Health and life insurance.
• Cycle to Work and Electric Vehicle schemes.
• Coaching and development support.
• A culture that values clarity, pace and sustainability alongside human kindness and understanding.
• Work that directly improves children’s futures.

How we hire:

• Intro chat – a real conversation, not a quiz.
• Product deep dive – how you think, what you’ve built, what you’ve learned.
• Competency and behavioural based interview.
• Task and meet the team!

If you’re excited by the idea of building the machine that gets the right educator into the right classroom at the right time, let’s talk.

Diversity & inclusion:

At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs.

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work.

We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all.