Head of Product (Ecosystem)

Head of Product (Ecosystem)

Remote (UK-based) | Full-time - £93,130 + benefits (including 4.5-day week and 11% employer pension)

Now is an exciting time to join the leadership of Oak's Product team. We're supporting the Department for Education in implementing a refreshed National Curriculum by sharing open digital curriculum resources and expanding our reach to support the wider education ecosystem, including developers, EdTech tools, and AI assistants, with curriculum content that is pedagogically rigorous and machine-readable. We're also continuing to develop our work in safe, pedagogically grounded AI in education, at a time when the sector is moving fast.

Oak is a fully remote, mission-driven organisation offering high levels of flexibility, autonomy, and purpose. We’re a national not-for-profit organisation working in partnership with teachers to create high-quality, sequenced curriculum and lesson resources for pupils across all subjects and age groups.

Our culture has been independently recognised through:

• Flexa verified (93% overall score, including 95% for working hours and 97% for role modelling)

• Escape the City's Top 1% Employers – based on anonymous colleague reviews of culture, development, and impact

• Investors in People Gold - through external accreditation and colleague feedback

💡 About the role:

The Head of Product (Ecosystem) reports to the Director of Product and will work alongside and in partnership with the Head of Product (Schools and Teachers), a role we are also hiring for, as well as leading our Quality Assurance discipline.

This role leads our Product squads responsible for expanding the reach and impact of Oak's curriculum beyond our direct-to-teacher and school products, as well as our Quality Assurance discipline. You'll be responsible for a portfolio of Ecosystem products and technical capabilities that make it easier for others to build innovative, safe and pedagogically robust tools using Oak's curriculum, data and code.

You'll also ensure that the way we create and structure our curriculum content works well for both Oak and others, maximising the long-term reach and impact of our curriculum across products, platforms, and AI-powered learning environments.

You'll play a key role on Oak's leadership team, working closely with colleagues across Engineering, Education and School Support, and help shape how Oak uses AI and emerging technologies to maximise the reach and impact of our curriculum across the education and technology sectors.

We welcome applications from candidates with significant experience leading cross-functional teams to develop innovative products from concept to product-market fit. You'll have experience thinking about content as structured data and be comfortable working at the intersection of product, engineering and emerging technologies. Ideally, you'll have experience launching new products, building strategic partnerships, and working with education or other mission-driven digital services.

If this sounds exciting and a good fit for your experience, we want to hear from you.

🔧 What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead, develop and manage a high-performing department across Product squads and Quality Assurance, supporting colleagues to grow and building relationships across Oak and beyond.

• Shape and deliver the product strategy for the Ecosystem, ensuring cross-functional squads work effectively to achieve strategic priorities and continuously improve how they operate.

• Develop Oak's Ecosystem product portfolio, exploring opportunities for wider integrations such as MCPs and APIs within the sector and build relationships to support this work

• Represent Quality Assurance at a leadership level, line managing the discipline and supporting its evolution in a world of AI

• Ensure every product delivers high-quality, accessible, safe, pedagogically rigorous experiences, including through our Ecosystem product portfolio, enabling us to scale for reach and impact

• Develop our use of AI, ensuring it stays safe, pedagogically robust and aligned with Oak's curriculum principles

• Maintain deep expertise in digital product management, product strategy, open content and data and emerging technologies and be the authority across Oak and more widely within the Ecosystem

• As a member of the leadership team, contribute to Oak's strategy and planning, and model our culture across the organisation

• Manage the Product budget (six figures), sharing the Product Management budget with the Head of Product (Schools and Teachers) and owning the Quality Assurance budget

• Deputise for the Director of Product, and take on other duties as needed

🌱 We’re looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in product development, including at least 2 years setting product strategy across multiple teams/squads in a product-centric organisation

• Experience of recruiting, managing and leading high-performing teams

• Experience of managing a significant budget

• Demonstrable experience of designing, implementing and continuously improving agile ways of working.

• Demonstrable experience of supporting high-performing teams outside of your own areas of expertise.

• Proven success in understanding and articulating challenging technical concepts, including the use of generative AI in products, to senior stakeholders.

As part of the Oak team, you'll contribute to the wider success and culture of the organisation. You will be comfortable working at pace, with a range of digital systems (including proprietary ones as required), and you will continuously look at ways that the team can keep getting better. You will excel at working on a remote team, building relationships, and managing your time effectively.

💛 Our Benefits

• 25 days annual leave, plus one extra day for each year of service (up to 28)

• Additional Oak closure days over Christmas/New Year

• 11% employer pension contribution (with no minimum employee contribution, which can be varied as you choose). Please note this is a workplace pension rather than the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

• A 36-hour working week, with half-days on Fridays or every other Friday off.

• Fully remote working — we’ll support your home set-up and offer coworking options if preferred

• Twice-yearly in-person whole Oak offsites to collaborate, connect, and have fun (with other occasional team events in person)

• A culture that genuinely supports flexibility, autonomy, and trust

🌈 Inclusion and Belonging

We believe diverse teams build better products. We warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds, particularly those who are underrepresented in the tech and education sectors.

If you're from an underrepresented group, there's a good chance you're discounting yourself before you've even started. That's more common than you'd think, and it means we may miss out on brilliant people. If you're excited by this role but don't meet every requirement, please apply anyway.

We use the Applied platform to help reduce bias in our hiring process. Answers are anonymised and reviewed by a panel of humans.

📌 Key Info

• Location: Remote, but you must be based in the UK with the legal right to work here

• Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time

• Closing date: We’ll be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the role early

If this sounds like the kind of role and team where you could do your life’s best work, we’d love to hear from you.

Next steps

You’ll answer a few admin questions and some questions related to your day-to-day job. Your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised, and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers (real humans), so it's your thinking that gets assessed, not your CV.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next stage, which will consist of remote Zoom interviews.

First round introductory interviews will be held on:

• Thursday, 23rd July 2026

• Monday, 27th July 2026

• Wednesday, 29th and Thursday, 30th July 2026

Second round interviews will be held on:

• Wednesday, 5th and Thursday, 6th August 2026 and

• Thursday, 13th August 2026

We love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process, we'll share how well you performed.

We are receiving excellent responses to our job advertisements. This may lead us to close the role early, so if you are considering applying, please get your application in early to avoid missing out.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.