Head of Product

Tes; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Grays Inn Rd, London WC1X 8NH, UK ● Norfolk St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE, UK Req #939

02 January 2025

Title: Head of Product (UK)

Department: Product

Location: Sheffield or London UK

Contract Type: Full time, permanent

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview:

We are seeking an experienced and transformative Head of Product to lead and reshape the product management function within our dynamic SaaS business. This pivotal role is focused on establishing best practices which fit the business needs, cultivating a strong community of practice, and developing a high-performing team that drives innovation and customer success.

As the Head of Product, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional leaders to align the product management framework with business objectives, ultimately ensuring that our product offerings continue to meet and exceed market demands. You will play a key role in nurturing a culture of continuous improvement, fostering collaboration, maximizing business value and championing a customer-centric approach to product discovery, development and go-to-market activities.

Key Responsibilities:

Transform the Product Management Function:

1. Develop and implement a tailored framework of product management best practices that align with our business goals and growth stage.
2. Identify and address gaps in current processes, ensuring efficiency, agility, and scalability.
3. Establish clear KPIs and performance metrics to evaluate product success and team impact.

Lead the Community of Practice:

1. Foster a thriving community of practice for product management, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to product managers and key stakeholders across the organization.
2. Promote knowledge sharing, skill development, and alignment across product teams.
3. Ensure consistent application of best practices and principles throughout the product lifecycle.

Build and Develop a High-Performing Team:

1. Recruit, mentor, and develop top talent in product management, cultivating a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
2. Define clear roles, career paths, and professional development opportunities for team members.
3. Drive team engagement and motivation through effective leadership and recognition.

Drive the execution of the Product Strategy and Vision:

1. Collaborate with executive leadership and product managers to refine and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
2. Ensure alignment between product initiatives and overall company objectives, ensuring that the team capacity, priorities and skillset are used to maximise business value.
3. Stay ahead of market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape to guide product innovation.
4. Embed a customer-first mindset within the product management team, ensuring decisions are informed by customer insights and feedback.
5. Collaborate with customer success, sales, marketing and customer ops to ensure seamless delivery of value to customers.
6. Implement data driven approaches to value realization both for the business and for customers.

What will you need to succeed?

1. Proven experience as a Head of Product, Director of Product, or equivalent senior product leadership role within a SaaS organization.
2. Strong track record of transforming product management functions and implementing effective best practices.
3. Demonstrated success in building and leading high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment.
4. Experience driving product strategy and product operations to align them with overarching business goals.

What do you get in return?

1. 25 days annual leave rising to 30.
2. State of the art city centre offices.
3. Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World.
4. Discounted city centre parking.
5. Free eye care cover.
6. Life Assurance.
7. Cycle to Work Scheme.
8. EAP (Employee assistance programme).
9. Monthly Tes Socials.
10. Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu.

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management.

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai.

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.