Technical Product Owner
Salary: £49,000 - £65,500
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Fixed term (12 months), Full-time (35 hours per week)
Drive Innovation and Impact in Global Assessment.
About the Role
We are seeking a Technical Product Owner to play a key role in shaping and delivering technology solutions that support our global assessment operations. Sitting within the Shared Solution Exam Material area of our Exam Technology Organisation (ETO), this role operates across an important product, ensuring that the solution delivered exceeds stakeholder expectations and drives meaningful business outcomes.
As a Technical Product Owner, you will be the bridge between business needs and technical delivery. You will own the product backlog, define user stories, and work closely with development and UX teams to ensure solutions are intuitive, scalable, and aligned with our strategic goals. You’ll also support testing, incident resolution, and agile coaching, helping teams stay focused and effective.
This is a dynamic opportunity to influence how we build and evolve our platforms. You’ll help define product vision and roadmaps, champion agile practices, and ensure our applications deliver real value to users.
About You
You are a proactive and technically minded product owner who understands how to translate business needs into actionable development work. You’re comfortable working across multiple teams and systems, and you bring a strong understanding of agile methodologies, stakeholder engagement, and software development processes. You also have foundational knowledge of how systems hosted in AWS work, enabling you to engage confidently with cloud‑based development teams.
* Proven experience in product ownership, business analysis, or project management within a technology‑focused environment.
* Strong understanding of Agile principles and experience working in Scrum teams.
* Ability to gather and refine requirements, write clear user stories, and manage product backlogs effectively.
* Comfortable working with developers, UX designers, and testers to shape and deliver high‑quality solutions.
* Experience supporting incidents, coordinating testing, and contributing to release planning.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organisation.
* Willingness to learn new tools and systems quickly.
* Working knowledge of AWS and cloud‑based application development and hosting to support informed decision‑making and collaboration with technical teams.
* Awareness of emerging AI tools and technologies, with the ability to assess their potential impact on product development and user experience.
* Exposure to exam board processes or assessment technologies is a plus.
You will be ideal for this role if you’re comfortable working UK hours (09:00‑17:00 BST, Monday to Friday), with occasional flexibility required to support releases or incidents outside of standard hours. You’ll also work with offshore and outsourced teams, so an appreciation of cross‑time‑zone collaboration is important.
Rewards and benefits
* 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× 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.
Apply now. We review applications on an ongoing basis, with the closing date set for 31st October. Interviews are expected to take place during the week commencing 3rd November. Successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You’ll belong to a collaborative team that explores 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 that 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, sexual identity, cultural or social background). 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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