Job Vacancy Technical Product Owner
Cambridge (CB2 8BS)
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Job position Technical Product Owner
As soon as possible
£49k-65,500
CB2 8BS, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Published on 18/10/2025
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Job Title: Technical Product Owner
Salary: £49,000 - £65,500
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Fixed term (12 months), Full-time (35 hours per week)
Drive Innovation and Impact in Global Assessment.
Join us in shaping the future of education technology. As a Technical Product Owner, you'll be a driving force behind scalable, intuitive solutions that support millions of learners worldwide. This role sits at the heart of our Exam Technology Organisation, where innovation meets purpose, and collaboration fuels progress.
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 Product Owner to play a key role in shaping and delivering technology solutions that support our global assessment operations. Sitting within the Shared Solution Exam Material area of our Exam Technology Organisation (ETO), this role operates across an important product, ensuring that the solution delivered exceed stakeholder expectations and drive meaningful business outcomes.
As a Technical Product Owner, you will be the bridge between business needs and technical delivery. You will own the product backlog, define user stories, and work closely with development and UX teams to ensure solutions are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with our strategic goals. You'll also support testing, incident resolution, and agile coaching, helping teams stay focused and effective.
This is a dynamic opportunity to influence how we build and evolve our platforms. You'll help define product vision and roadmaps, champion agile practices, and ensure our applications deliver real value to users. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and enjoy solving complex problems, we'd love to hear from you.
Salary: £49,000 - £65,500
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Fixed term (12 months), Full-time (35 hours per week)
Drive Innovation and Impact in Global Assessment.
Join us in shaping the future of education technology. As a Technical Product Owner, you'll be a driving force behind scalable, intuitive solutions that support millions of learners worldwide. This role sits at the heart of our Exam Technology Organisation, where innovation meets purpose, and collaboration fuels progress.
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 Product Owner to play a key role in shaping and delivering technology solutions that support our global assessment operations. Sitting within the Shared Solution Exam Material area of our Exam Technology Organisation (ETO), this role operates across an important product, ensuring that the solution delivered exceed stakeholder expectations and drive meaningful business outcomes.
As a Technical Product Owner, you will be the bridge between business needs and technical delivery. You will own the product backlog, define user stories, and work closely with development and UX teams to ensure solutions are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with our strategic goals. You'll also support testing, incident resolution, and agile coaching, helping teams stay focused and effective.
This is a dynamic opportunity to influence how we build and evolve our platforms. You'll help define product vision and roadmaps, champion agile practices, and ensure our applications deliver real value to users. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and enjoy solving complex problems, we'd love to hear from you.
Candidate profile
About You
You are a proactive and technically minded product owner who understands how to translate business needs into actionable development work. You're comfortable working across multiple teams and systems, and you bring a strong understanding of agile methodologies, stakeholder engagement, and software development processes. You also have the foundational knowledge on how systems hosted in AWS work, enabling you to engage confidently with cloud-based development teams and contribute to informed technical decisions.
You'll bring:
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
If you choose to apply, please include a short cover letter with your application, making sure you specify you are applying for this vacancy. We look forward to hearing from you.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with the closing date set for 31st October. Interviews are expected to take place on week commencing 3rd November.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
You are a proactive and technically minded product owner who understands how to translate business needs into actionable development work. You're comfortable working across multiple teams and systems, and you bring a strong understanding of agile methodologies, stakeholder engagement, and software development processes. You also have the foundational knowledge on how systems hosted in AWS work, enabling you to engage confidently with cloud-based development teams and contribute to informed technical decisions.
You'll bring:
- Proven experience in product ownership, business analysis, or project management within a technology-focused environment.
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and experience working in Scrum teams.
- Ability to gather and refine requirements, write clear user stories, and manage product backlogs effectively.
- Comfortable working with developers, UX designers, and testers to shape and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Experience supporting incidents, coordinating testing, and contributing to release planning.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organisation.
- Willingness to learn new tools and systems quickly.
- Working knowledge of AWS and cloud-based application development and hosting to support informed decision-making and collaboration with technical teams.
- Awareness of emerging AI tools and technologies, with the ability to assess their potential impact on product development and user experience
- Exposure to exam board processes or assessment technologies is a plus.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
If you choose to apply, please include a short cover letter with your application, making sure you specify you are applying for this vacancy. We look forward to hearing from you.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with the closing date set for 31st October. Interviews are expected to take place on week commencing 3rd November.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Working environment
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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Knightsbridge, England, United Kingdom
> 1000 employees
IT School / University
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is a global leader in academic publishing, educational resources, and assessment. With over 500 years of expertise, the organization provides innovative learning materials and exams to support education and research worldwide.
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