Head of Product Development – Strategy
Happy Koala
Product Manager, Product Innovation
Wordwall
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £60,000 - £85,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Identify and validate new opportunities to enhance how educators and students interact with Wordwall.
- Lead 0→1 product discovery, defining problems and opportunities where the solution isn’t yet clear.
- Use data insights, user research, and rapid experimentation to shape hypotheses and uncover high-impact ideas and educator use cases.
- Collaborate with design and engineering partners to rapidly prototype and test new concepts, balancing creativity with technical feasibility.
- Frame product bets that combine educational value, technical innovation, and strategic potential.
- Drive end-to-end product development for early-stage ideas, from initial concept through to first release.
- Translate ambiguous ideas into clear product requirements, user stories, and success metrics.
- Partner closely with engineers to ensure technical feasibility and architectural scalability as prototypes evolve toward production.
- Facilitate rapid iteration and lightweight delivery, enabling the team to learn quickly and adapt based on results.
- Maintain a bias toward action and experimentation, ensuring forward momentum even amid uncertainty.
- Analyze usage data, engagement patterns, and learning outcomes to evaluate the impact of new features.
- Refine early-stage products through A/B testing, user feedback, and post-launch insights.
- Continuously improve product quality, usability, and performance through data-driven iteration.
- Capture and share learnings from each experiment to inform future 0→1 initiatives.
- Champion educator and student perspectives, ensuring every innovation enhances real-world teaching and learning.
- Partner across product, engineering, and commercial teams to integrate validated experiments into the core platform.
- Communicate discoveries and progress with clarity, building trust and excitement around innovation efforts.
- Contribute to defining the operating model for 0→1 innovation, helping the team establish repeatable methods for testing, validating, and scaling new ideas.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of product management experience, ideally in a SaaS or consumer-facing product environment.
- Proven experience with AI-driven product development, including generative AI or recommendation systems across a spectrum of use cases.
- Demonstrated ability to work with technical teams — comfortable discussing APIs, data models, and system architecture at a conceptual level.
- Experience leading end-to-end product development cycles, from ideation and discovery through delivery and measurement.
- Strong ability to translate user needs into clear product requirements and actionable priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to prototype and test quickly, using lightweight design and validation methods.
- Experience with data-informed decision making, including setting success metrics, analyzing engagement data, and using A/B testing or experimentation frameworks.
- Proven track record of shipping user-facing products that improve engagement, usability, or retention.
- Strong collaboration skills — able to communicate effectively with engineers, designers, and stakeholders.
- Curiosity and creativity — a passion for exploring emerging technologies (AI, personalization, adaptive learning, etc.) and turning them into real user value.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- £60-85K GBP annual salary
- Fully remote working #LI-Remote
- High growth, investor backed environment
- A collaborative culture with real opportunities to make an impact
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product managementAI-driven product developmentgenerative AIrecommendation systemsend-to-end product developmentA/B testingdata-informed decision makingprototypinguser requirements translationlightweight design
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationcuriositycreativityproblem-solvingadaptabilityleadershiptrust-buildinguser advocacystrategic thinking
