Senior Product Development Manager

Salary: £72,000 – £78,000 per year

Senior Product Development Manager
Unit: LDS
Change your career, change lives
The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education.
The role
Do you have proven experience of successfully leading the development of innovative tools and systems, with a passion and drive for implementing learning technologies? Are you experienced in using practice-based research and behavioural insight to create great learning experiences? Are you interested in new technologies, such as Virtual Reality, and how they can enhance the student experience?
The OU’s Learning Innovation team needs a proactive Senior Product Development Manager who will take the lead for initiating, specifying and delivering projects that will enhance the student experience and organisational capabilities. This is a varied position, managing projects from inception to mainstream adoption. You will be working as part of an energetic and talented team with responsibility for the development and line management of team members.
Skills and experience
In order to keep up to date with latest industry trends, you must have an excellent understanding of technology and digital learning in general, backed up with a formal qualification and/or relevant experience. You will need to be able to confidently present business cases for each innovation you suggest and have excellent influencing and negotiation skills.
What you get in return On top of a competitive salary and pension scheme, we offer many staff benefits including generous leave allowance, flexible working, fee waiver for all OU courses and qualifications, childcare vouchers, cycle-to-work scheme and secure bike parking, free on-site car parking, on-site nurseries, and many different sports and leisure clubs offering discounts and other benefits.
Closing date: 22 May at 12 noon
Interview dates: w/c 1 June, to be confirmed