Senior Product Manager

London - UK

Monthly Salary: £ 85 - 105

Posted on: 06-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role: Senior Product Manager (IC)

Location: London HQ (Oval) Hybrid (3 days in office)

Type: Full-time

Salary: 85K105K compelling package (incl. options)

Our vision

Every child deserves a better start toward the best possible future.

The right educator in the right classroom at the right time can change a childs chances and at scale a nations trajectory. Yet too much of our education systems time money and talent are lost to inefficiency.

At Zen Educate were changing that through technology: helping schools save millions in tight times helping educators find work that rewards their skills and fits their lives and building a better-educated society that invests its best in every child.

That outcome (the right educator in the right classroom at the right time everywhere) is our product. The software tools systems processes and people are how we make it happen.

Hi Im Dan Cohen

Im the Chief Product Officer here at Zen Educate.

Weve already helped schools save over 30 million so far. That feels great but honestly it just shows whats possible when the system works better and we have a long way to go!

Now were scaling fast in the UK and US and the next chapter is about building the machine that keeps delivering that outcome at scale.

To do that were looking for a Senior Product Manager whos outcome-obsessed data-savvy and happy being in the messy middle where product people and process meet.

This isnt a people-management role although it will require a great deal of leadership. Its an individual contributor role for a savvy Product Operator who still loves building: defining problems finding leverage and turning ambiguity into momentum.

If you like figuring things out getting teams moving and seeing your work directly improve real peoples lives youll enjoy this.

What product means here

At Zen product doesnt stop at the software. The software is one part of a much bigger system that connects schools teachers data and processes.

Sometimes the right answer is a feature. Sometimes its an operational tweak a better metric or a mindset shift that changes how people work. Youll care more about the outcome than about what shape the solution takes.

What youll be doing

- Frame real problems and find the shortest path to proving or disproving them

- Combine qualitative insight with quantitative data to guide priorities

- Work closely with design engineering and ops to ship learn and repeat

- Define success metrics that link to business outcomes

- Keep improving how we do product at Zen through better tools habits and feedback loops

Youll be in the thick of it: shaping testing talking to users untangling blockers and helping the team focus on what moves the needle.

The kind of PM were looking for

The kind whos calm in the chaos and curious in the unknown.

Youre a natural mediator who can hold multiple perspectives keep your head when others are flapping and help a team find alignment without fuss. You know when to lead and when to let others run with it.

Youre also a restless learner. You collect ideas and frameworks for fun. Youre at your best when something is fuzzy and needs shaping into something testable. You get itchy when theres too much uncertainty and have a near-compulsive need to turn ambiguity into action. Once its clear enough you move fast.

Youre probably happiest when youre learning shipping and seeing tangible change.

The experience we think helps

Theres no single route but itll help if you have:

- 58 years building and scaling digital products or systems with measurable impact in a marketplace business and for extra credit in EdTech or adjacent verticals

- Experience running discovery experiments and delivery end-to-end

- Comfort working with data (spreadsheets dashboards SQL if needed)

- Strong collaboration with engineers designers and operations

- Evidence of making complex systems simple and usable

What youll get

- Work that directly improves childrens futures

- Competitive salary and stock options

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

- Health and life insurance

- Cycle to Work and Electric Vehicle schemes

- Coaching and development support

- A culture that values clarity pace and sustainability alongside human kindness and understanding

How we hire

We keep it simple:

Intro chat a real conversation not a quiz

Product deep dive how you think what youve built what youve learned

Optional problem-solving session if useful

Meet the team the people youll actually work with

Well tell you whats great whats still messy and where youll have an impact. We expect you to do the same.

If youre excited by the idea of building the machine that gets the right educator into the right classroom at the right time lets talk.

Diversity & inclusion

At Zen we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion where everyone is respected valued and appreciated for their unique traits experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive regardless of age ethnicity race gender identity sexual orientation socio-economic status disability religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer more compassionate environment for all.

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where peoples voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work.

We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions beliefs and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; weve had former teachers pilots fundraisers engineers lawyers marketers social media experts and more join our team.

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Role: Senior Product Manager (IC)Location: London HQ (Oval) Hybrid (3 days in office)Type: Full-timeSalary: 85K105K compelling package (incl. options) Our visionEvery child deserves a better start toward the best possible future.The right educator in the right classroom at the right time can chang...