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Arbor Education

Cloud-based MIS for UK schools

Senior Product Manager

Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in UK£73k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong experience in a B2B or B2C SaaS product environment.
  • Ability to connect product strategy to commercial impact while balancing user value with business growth and retention.
  • Active use of generative AI tools, such as large language models for user research synthesis, drafting specifications, data exploration, and prototyping, to accelerate decision-making, increase productivity, and improve product craft.
  • Solid understanding of user experience design methodologies and interface best practices.
  • Hands-on experience with product management systems, including AI-driven product development.
  • Practical experience prioritising work amid competing, complex priorities.
  • Proven track record running agile working practices and sprint ceremonies.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work autonomously while taking ownership of outcomes.
  • Passion for improving the working lives of school staff.

Responsibilities

  • Own, prioritise, and execute the product vision and delivery roadmap for assigned tools and features.
  • Translate broad product strategy into operational plans, milestones, and release timescales.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product Marketing, and executive peers to commercialise capabilities that support company growth.
  • Translate MIS users' operational needs into problem statements, epics, and user stories.
  • Prioritise backlogs using data, customer usage, and market trends.
  • Lead sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming, and planning sessions in partnership with the Lead Engineer.
  • Balance product quality with on-time delivery schedules.
  • Monitor software pipeline performance and drive continuous team process improvements.
  • Build prototypes independently to test and iterate solutions.
  • Partner with UX/UI and Frontend teams to deliver usability improvements.
  • Ensure interface changes align with modern UI/UX standards.
  • Align product functionality with commercial outcomes and partner with Sales and Marketing to develop and execute go-to-market plans.
  • Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success on upcoming releases and feature updates, access customers, gather feedback, and educate customers.
  • Represent Arbor at sales meetings, user forums, and national education conferences.

Desired Qualifications

  • Understanding of the UK school system, educational structures, or data frameworks.
  • Experience coaching product managers, designers, or cross-functional team members to improve product thinking and foster best practices.
  • Experience using analytics tools and user engagement data to understand trends, patterns, and impact.

About the Company

Arbor Education

Cloud-based MIS for UK schools

Arbor Education offers a cloud-based MIS for schools and MATs that unifies attendance, behaviour, assessment, payments, parent communications, and statutory reporting in one platform. It works by providing a centralized system with a trust-wide data view for MATs, sold on a subscription basis with pricing by school size and package. It differentiates itself through scale within the UK market, the ability to view data across multiple schools, and by integrating HR functionality through acquisitions. Its goal is to reduce staff admin workload and help schools focus more on student outcomes with a data-driven, efficient management system.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Early VC
Total funding
$13.8M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2011

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