Salary £90,001 (GBP) £90,001 + benefits (including 4.5 day week and 11% employer pension)

Team Product

Seniority Senior

• Closing:11:59pm, 10th Oct 2025 BST

Perks and benefits

Work from home option

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid emergency leave

Mentoring/coaching

Payroll giving

Team social events

Candidate happiness

8.57 (6437)

Job Description

Head of Product

Remote (UK-based) | Full-time | Flexible working | Competitive salary + excellent benefits

We’re looking for a Head of Product to run our product department at Oak. You'll be leading our digital teams to provide world-class public services for teachers and pupils across the country. We're used by over 1/3 of teachers. We've just launched the world's first openly-licensed, fully resourced curriculum. And we're recognised experts on implementing AI in educational products, with multiple published academic papers on our work with Aila - an AI-powered lesson planning assistant. There's huge potential to scale this impact as we move into our next strategic period. Help us take our products to the next level!

Oak is the publicly-funded provider of free, high-quality digital curriculum and teaching resources for schools. We are a pioneering organsation, fully remote and mission-driven, working to support teachers and improve pupils’ access to quality education. Oak offers high levels of flexibility, autonomy and purpose.

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

About the Role

What You’ll Be Doing

Develop and manage a high-performing Product department, leveraging internal and/or external relationships

Manage the Product department budget (minimum of 6-figures)

Responsible for all decisions relating to the performance and function of the Product department

Maintain specialist expertise in digital product and strategy development, and be the authority across Oak and more widely across the sector

Oversee and continuously improve the operation of cross-functional squads, including individuals from other departments, to deliver our product strategy

Ensure that all our products are user-centric, accessible, pedagogically sound and backed by research, deliver high impact for teachers and pupils, and are rigorously evaluated

Work closely with education colleagues to create an openly-licensed, fully-resourced national curriculum to underpin our products

Act as a member of Oak’s leadership team: contribute to the strategy, planning and model the culture of the organisation;

Work in cross-functional and product-oriented squads with colleagues across the organisation, as required;

Deputise for the Director of Product Strategy & Impact and take on other general responsibilities as required.

5+ years of experience in product development, including at least 2 years setting product strategy across multiple teams in an organisation

Experience of recruiting, managing and leading a high-performing department

Experience of managing a 6-figure budget.

Demonstrable experience designing and rolling out continuously improving agile ways of working in an organisation

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

Good understanding of education policy and the UK education system (desirable).

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)

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 offsites to collaborate, connect, and have fun

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.

We use the Applied recruitment platform to help reduce bias in our hiring process.

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: 23:59 on 10th October 2025

If this sounds like the kind of role and team where you would thrive, we'd love to hear from you.

Next steps

You’ll answer some questions related to your day-to-day job. After the advert closes, your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised, and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers (real humans).

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next stage.

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

We are aiming to start interviews on 20th October.

We are experiencing really good responses to our job adverts. This may lead us to close the role early, so if you are considering applying then please get your application in early to avoid missing out.

We are an equal opportunities 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.