Head of Product (School & Teachers)

Head of Product (Schools and Teachers) 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, playing an influential role in open, digital curriculum, and building on our established credibility in safe, pedagogically grounded AI, at a moment 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 (Schools and Teachers) reports to the Director of Product and will work alongside and in partnership with the Head of Product (Ecosystem), a role we are also hiring for. This role is responsible for Oak’s Schools and Teachers product suite, serving both individual teachers as direct consumers and schools through both a self-serve and partnership model to implement sequences of Oak’s curriculum. You'll play a key role on Oak's leadership team, working closely with colleagues across Engineering, Education, and School Support. You will ensure our products deliver real impact for teachers and pupils, are grounded in evidence and pedagogy, and exemplify what a modern, digital public service can be. We welcome applications from candidates with deep product management experience who have led cross-functional squads to deliver high-quality user experiences, iterating and improving established products with large user bases. Ideally, you’ll also have experience of delivering educational products. 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 the Design discipline, supporting colleagues to grow and building relationships across Oak and beyond. Shape and deliver the Product strategy for Schools and Teachers, ensuring cross-functional squads work effectively to achieve strategic priorities and continuously improve how they operate. Represent the Design discipline 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 for teachers, schools and pupils and that these products can scale and have 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 and design, providing thought leadership across Oak and representing the organisation externally where appropriate. 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 Product Management budget with the Head of Product (Ecosystem) and owning the Design 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 in recruiting, managing and leading high-performing teams Experience in 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. Experience of identifying and integrating opportunities presented by AI into products and/or ways of working, with a thoughtful approach to quality, safety and responsible use. Good understanding of pedagogy, education policy and the UK education system (desirable). 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 a remote interviews conducted over Zoom. 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, don't leave it too long 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.