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Salary: £43,800 - £55,000 per annum
Location: Cambridge, UK/Hybrid – minimum 2 days per week in the office
Contract: Permanent, full time – 35 hours per week
Cambridge Online Education is seeking a commercially driven and strategically minded Product Marketing Manager to lead our growing Marketing team, where you will shape and deliver compelling go-to-market strategies for a diverse portfolio of online professional education courses across Business to Business and Business to Consumer markets.
Salary: £43,800 - £55,000 per annum
Location: Cambridge, UK/Hybrid – minimum 2 days per week in the office
Contract: Permanent, full time – 35 hours per week
Cambridge Online Education is seeking a commercially driven and strategically minded Product Marketing Manager to lead our growing Marketing team, where you will shape and deliver compelling go-to-market strategies for a diverse portfolio of online professional education courses across Business to Business and Business to Consumer markets.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About The Role
As a Product Marketing Manager in Cambridge Online Education, you will establish and lead a newly formed function at the heart of our fast-growing online education division.
You will build and execute a robust, insight-led product marketing discipline from the ground up. This is a pivotal, high-visibility role requiring technical fluency, strategic acumen, and an ability to translate market complexity into actionable marketing opportunity. This is an opportunity to help shape the future of digital learning. You will spearhead the creation of market-defining go-to-market strategies, frameworks, and processes.
Key Responsibilities
* Strategic Leadership: Establish and scale a best-in-class product marketing function. Inspire and develop a high-performing team of sector and course marketers to deliver market-leading strategies that fuel learner acquisition and engagement.
* End-to-End GTM Ownership: Design and implement scalable, repeatable go-to-market frameworks aligned with customer, commercial, and product priorities. Deliver end-to-end campaign strategies that connect value proposition to revenue impact.
* Positioning & Messaging Excellence: Define and operationalise differentiated messaging and positioning strategies that elevate our courses in competitive global markets.
* Customer & Market Insight: Drive a culture of insight-led decision making. Collaborate with Market Research to synthesise customer intelligence, competitor trends, and market signals into strategy.
* Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Propositions, Product, Sales, and Digital Marketing to align on shared KPIs, strengthen product-market fit, and enhance our commercial success.
About You
You are an experienced product marketing leader with:
* Proven expertise in building and scaling product marketing functions in digital learning, SaaS, or technology-driven education environments.
* A track record of delivering high-impact GTM strategies that blend market insight, technical understanding, and commercial ambition.
* Strong leadership and mentoring skills – you bring out the best in cross-functional teams and know how to shape a culture of performance and growth.
* Technical literacy – you're confident navigating product development cycles, data analytics, and customer research tools to inform decision-making.
* Exceptional communication skills – you can distil complexity into compelling narratives and strategic action plans.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
* 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Group personal pension scheme
* Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
* Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 27 July 2025. Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 11 August 2025.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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