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Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager Salary: £49,000 - £65,000 Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office) Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week) Are you passionate about driving successful delivery in a complex, fast-paced environment? We're looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to lead cross-functional teams and deliver high-quality, secure and resilient digital solutions that support Cambridge University Press & Assessment's global mission. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategy, embed agile practices and make a real impact on education worldwide. We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. About the role As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth flow of delivery from discovery through to live service. You'll work closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, and stakeholders to align priorities, manage risks, and ensure that solutions meet performance, security, and compliance standards. This role is essential to maintaining delivery predictability, operational readiness and value realisation across our Exam Technology Organisation. Key accountabilities include: Leading agile delivery across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with product goals. Managing dependencies, risks and release governance to protect stability and quality. Embedding non-functional requirements (security, resilience, performance) into delivery. Driving continuous improvement and fostering a positive, collaborative team culture. Partnering with internal teams and external vendors to ensure successful outcomes.

Job Title: Technical Delivery Manager Salary: £49,000 - £65,500 Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2 days per week in the office) Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week) Join us in shaping the future of assessment technology. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering innovative, cloud-based solutions that support learners and educators around the world. We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. About the Role We are seeking a Technical Delivery Manager to lead the successful delivery of cloud-native and platform-based solutions that support our global assessment operations. Sitting within the Shred Solution areas, Exam Material area of our Exam Technology Organisation (ETO), this role is embedded in a cross-functional product team and plays a key part in ensuring technical delivery is aligned with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations. As a Technical Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for enabling effective delivery across agile teams, managing dependencies, coordinating releases, and ensuring technical solutions are scalable, secure, and fit for purpose. You will work closely with Product Owners, developers, testers, and architects to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of collaboration and accountability. This is a dynamic opportunity to influence how we build and evolve our platforms, especially as we continue to expand our use of cloud technologies. If you thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and enjoy solving complex technical delivery challenges, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Title: Technical Product Manager - AI Centre of Excellence Salary: £69,800 - £93,350 Location: Cambridge/Hybrid with 2-3 day office attendance per week Contract: Permanent Join Cambridge University Press & Assessment as a Technical Product Manager in our AI Centre of Excellence. Drive the development of innovative AI products that deliver exceptional value to our customers and accelerate AI capability across the organisation. Work at the frontier of AI development in education and assessment, collaborating with leading thinkers. We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. About the role As Technical Product Manager, you will: Lead the COE technical team to develop a portfolio of technical products enabling fast and responsible AI development. Coach and mentor Product Managers across the organisation, aligning and integrating AI roadmaps. Inform the wider CUP&A AI strategy and capability building. Own the complete product lifecycle, from concept through launch, growth, maturity, and evolution. Partner with designers and engineers to run discovery, prototype solutions, and gather customer feedback. Define product vision, outcomes, and success metrics aligned with business objectives. Manage stakeholder relationships and technical backlog, driving delivery against the roadmap. Oversee release strategy, change management, and continuous improvement post-launch. Influence product roadmaps across AI Pods, identifying synergies and opportunities to accelerate value delivery