[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @Cambridge Spark

Role Description

This is a significant new role. Cambridge Spark's product estate has outgrown a single product manager, and we are splitting it by domain rather than by feature queue. This role takes the employer-facing side of the platform and, distinctively, becomes the accountable product owner for the business's internal data and reporting products.

Today, reporting across Cambridge Spark is largely ad hoc: assembled on request, held in the heads of the people who assemble it, and trusted unevenly as a result. You will be building owned data products where none currently exist, with real service levels attached, for an audience that spans every function in the business. This is build-out work, not maintenance.

You will work as an embedded member of the tech team, alongside engineering pods that own outcomes rather than backlogs, and you will report directly to the Head of Engineering.

Qualifications

• Prior ownership of internal data or reporting products — a data-PM, BI, or analytics-adjacent background.
• A track record, as a Product Manager in a technology company or scale-up, of turning a vision and a set of headline deliverables into a sequenced roadmap a team can ship against.
• Strong data and analytics capability: defining data products, working with analytics tooling, and setting service levels for accuracy, timeliness, and availability.
• Experience of working with a newly formed team, or of standing up a product practice where none previously existed.
• Proficient in requirements gathering and in writing product requirements and user stories that engineers can act on.

Requirements

• Own the outcome: employers experience Cambridge Spark as a credible, well-run partner, and the product surfaces they touch make the value of their investment visible and easy to act on.
• Own the Employer Experience roadmap: converting the existing vision into a prioritised and sequenced roadmap, and delivering it.
• Own the backlog and the problem framing beneath that roadmap, and challenge solutions where you think we have the wrong one.
• Work with commercial and delivery stakeholders to understand employer pain points and translate them into product opportunities.
• Ensure employer-facing reporting and engagement features are accurate, timely, and show the information that’s valuable, not just what’s easy.
• Contribute to hiring the Employer Experience pod, and to getting a newly formed team productive quickly.
• Establish and own a portfolio of internal data products, partnering with our Data and Analytics function to define what gets built, for whom, and to what standard.
• Define clear service levels and success criteria for data products — accuracy, timeliness, availability — and hold delivery against them.
• Drive measurable improvement in the quality and adoption of data-informed decision-making.
• Prioritise data and reporting work coherently alongside the employer roadmap rather than as a side channel.
• Act as the primary product interface with engineering across your domains, with requirements clear and ready ahead of sprint planning.
• Write clear product requirements and user stories, and clarify them through delivery rather than throwing them over a wall.
• Define launch readiness and go/no-go criteria; engineering owns the technical rollout mechanics.
• Manage expectations across a broad senior internal audience, communicating scope, risk, and timeline changes clearly and early.

Benefits

• Pension with 4% matched contributions, opportunity to opt into salary sacrifice scheme.
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday.
• A day for volunteering.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave.
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month.
• Annual Summer and Xmas events.
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events.
• CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth.
• Private medical insurance and cash plan.
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a).
• Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated company counsellor.