Define and execute the global strategy and roadmap for institutional courseware

Manage portfolio investments, prioritisation, localisation, innovation, and product lifecycle decisions

Act as the senior product authority and provide strategic recommendations to the ELL Leadership Team

Build understanding of learners, educators, institutions, ministries, and partners across priority markets

Use customer insight, market trends, learning evidence, and performance data to drive product and investment decisions

Support strategic customer and ministry engagements alongside Sales teams

Translate strategy into value propositions, product roadmaps, and requirements

Lead cross-functional teams to deliver learning solutions balancing customer value, learning effectiveness, quality, speed, and commercial outcomes

Validate opportunities through customer research, pilots, and data-driven decision-making

Drive the evolution from print-first products to digital, blended, and AI-enabled learning experiences

Identify and scale responsible AI opportunities

Ensure AI-enabled products meet standards for transparency, safety, privacy, accessibility, and intellectual property compliance

Develop business cases, pricing strategies, and investment recommendations

Partner with Sales, Finance, and Revenue Operations to achieve customer, learning, revenue, profitability, and ROI objectives

Optimise, reposition, or retire underperforming products

Establish and monitor learning, adoption, engagement, satisfaction, retention, revenue, and profitability metrics





Lead and develop a integral team of approximately 15 product professionals

Foster excellence in product management, customer discovery, strategy, commercial thinking, and AI-enabled product development

Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer focus

Requirements Relevant experience in product management, portfolio leadership, general management, or a related field

Experience leading multiple teams or managing managers

Proven success setting strategy and making investment choices across complex product, market, or customer portfolios

Track record of turning customer insight into differentiated products and successful commercial outcomes

Experience owning business cases and managing performance against revenue, profitability, customer, and return expectations

Strong judgement in investment, prioritisation, pricing, packaging, and portfolio rationalisation

Experience leading cross-functional product development in a global, matrixed organisation

Experience building product teams and developing product leaders

Education, publishing, courseware, EdTech, or learning-products experience strongly preferred

Experience applying AI, data, or emerging technology to products preferred





No specific degree is required; relevant experience and demonstrated outcomes are valued

Strong commercial and strategic acumen

Expertise in product strategy, portfolio management, customer discovery, roadmap development, and stakeholder engagement

Data- and evidence-led decision-making using customer insight, learning science, analytics, and sound judgement

Experience leading global teams and influencing senior stakeholders

Practical understanding of AI and machine learning concepts, including prompt engineering and applying AI to products, workflows, and decision-making

Hands-on model development expertise is not required

Core Competencies Demonstrates expertise in product management, portfolio leadership, and strategic decision-making, with a focus on AI-enabled learning solutions and customer-centric product development. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive commercial outcomes through data-driven insights and market understanding.

Highest-signal resume keywords Product Management

Portfolio Leadership

AI-Enabled Product Development

Data-Driven Decision-Making

Cross-Functional Team Leadership

ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills Product Strategy

Portfolio Management

Roadmap Development

Customer Discovery

Investment Decision-Making

Pricing Strategy

Performance Management

Market Analysis

AI Application

Learning Science

Soft Skills Strategic Acumen

Judgement

Collaboration

Innovation

Accountability

Industry Keywords EdTech

Courseware

Education

Publishing

Learning Products

📌 Lead, Product Management (Madrid)
🏢 Jobtailor
📍 Madrid