Senior Product Manager (FTC)

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Product Manager (FTC)
Location: Cambridge, UK or remote with regular travel to Cambridge 
Salary: £62,700-£68,700 p.a. full-time equivalent, dependent on experience
Basis: Fixed term (March 2025 - April 2026); full-time, part-time or flexible
Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK

The role

We are looking for an experienced and collaborative Senior Product Manager (SPM) to drive the development of innovative products that deliver lasting value to young people and educators worldwide. This role is on a fixed term basis until mid-April 2026 to cover maternity leave. This role is ideal for someone who excels at navigating complexity, works effectively in ambiguous environments, and has the skills to partner with business owners and cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.

As an SPM, you will own one or more complex or ambiguous products, delivering outcomes that align with organisational priorities. You’ll work closely with business owners to shape product roadmaps and strategies, ensuring they address user needs while meeting broader objectives. In this role, you will also guide and support Product Managers and Associate Product Managers, helping to grow the team’s expertise and impact.

We strive to make the Foundation a place where talented people who care about our mission can do the best work of their careers. We have a flexible and collaborative approach to all aspects of our work. If you’re the right person for the job, we’ll make it work for you, and you can be confident that you’ll be working with an exceptional team.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business owners to develop and execute product strategies, contributing to vision and go-to-market planning.
• Own one or more complex or ambiguous products, delivering outcomes that align with strategic business goals.
• Define and maintain a strategic product roadmap in collaboration with business owners, balancing user needs, organisational priorities, and long-term objectives.
• Foster strong relationships with senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment on priorities and delivering business outcomes.
• Provide strategic leadership across all stages of product development, guiding cross-functional teams through discovery, delivery, and iteration.
• Collaborate with UX researchers to integrate user insights into product strategies, ensuring solutions address user needs effectively.
• Use data and insights to drive decisions, measure success, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Mentor Product Managers and Associate Product Managers, fostering growth and developing team capabilities.
• Identify and resolve complex product challenges, working collaboratively to anticipate and mitigate risks.
• Communicate effectively across teams and with stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment on goals, progress, and constraints.

Experience and personal attributes

We recognise that everyone has the potential for growth, and we welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they have some, but not all, of the experience and personal attributes listed here.

• Proven experience in product management, with a strong track record of delivering complex or ambiguous products that drive significant user and business impact.
• Extensive experience working in agile teams, including leading agile processes and optimising workflows.
• Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to contribute to and influence product vision and organisational goals.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to engage senior stakeholders and convey complex ideas clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and solving challenges.
• A data-driven mindset, with the ability to use insights to inform product strategy and measure success.
• Empathy for users and team members, combined with the pragmatism to balance competing priorities effectively.
• Experience mentoring or managing others, with a commitment to supporting team development and growth.
• An interest in education, particularly digital making and computing, or a desire to learn more about these areas.

About us

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based educational charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. You can read more about us on our careers page.

Established in 2008 and first known for our product — the wildly successful Raspberry Pi computer — the Foundation has developed education programmes, learning experiences, and products that are helping millions of young people learn vital new knowledge and skills

Through Code Club and CoderDojo, we support the world’s largest network of free informal computing clubs for young people. Tens of thousands of educators have taken our online courses, and millions of people use our free online learning resources. To deepen our understanding of how young people learn about computing and how to create with digital technologies, we conduct academic research, and we use that knowledge to increase the impact of our work and advance the field of computing education.

Across all of our work, we work hard to engage young people who come from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the field of computing or who experience educational disadvantage. We work all over the world, with teams based in the UK, Ireland, North America, and India, and partnerships with mission-aligned organisations in over 40 countries.

We are at the forefront of the global movement to help young people learn about computing and digital making. You can read more about our mission, values, and goals in our Annual Review 2022 and our Strategy 2022–2025.

Benefits

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a range of benefits for all of our colleagues, including:

• 25 days’ annual leave initially, growing to 30 days after five years service
• Company-wide close down for 3 days at the end of the year
• Generous company pension scheme with 8% employer and 4% employee contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance and long-term illness insurance policy
• Investment in professional development and learning
• Flexible work hours as needed, to fit around childcare or other commitments
• Generous family leave policy
• Cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loan

Timetable for applications

Closing date: 10 February 2025, 9.00am GMT
Phone screen: Week commencing 10 February 2025
First-round interview: Week commencing 10 February 2025
Second-round interview: Week commencing 17 February 2025

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. If successful in the selection process, you will be required to undergo a background check to confirm that you are a suitable person to work with children. Further background checks will be made at regular intervals thereafter.