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Salary: £35,200 - £45,700

Location: Cambridge, UK (Hybrid)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

We are looking for a customer-focused and collaborative Product Owner to help shape and deliver high-value data analysis products that support business decision-making. This is an exciting opportunity to work across teams, prioritise meaningful outcomes, and grow your career in an organisation committed to helping you pursue your potential.

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

The Product Owner for Data Analysis is responsible for defining, prioritising and delivering high-quality data products and analytics tools that enable insight-driven decision-making across the Academic Department. Working within a Data Mesh framework, the role leads the end-to-end design and delivery of Academic domain data products, partnering closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, analysts and technology teams. The role is accountable for ensuring data products are scalable, reusable and aligned to strategic priorities, while driving Agile delivery through effective sprint planning, backlog management and continuous iteration using tools such as Jira.

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:

• Define and own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for data products and analytics development within a Data Mesh architecture
• Translate business needs from Data Product owners into clearly defined user stories and acceptance criteria
• Lead the design and build lifecycle of data products, business intelligence tools and analytics from concept through to deployment and iteration
• Collaborate with data engineering, BI, and analytics teams to ensure robust, scalable solutions
• Own and manage the product backlog within Jira, ensuring prioritisation reflects business value
• Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint reviews
• Monitor progress, remove blockers, and ensure timely delivery of sprint commitments

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.

About You

You will be an Agile Product Owner with experience in a Product Owner role, ideally in a technical or data-focused environment. You will have a good understanding of Data Mesh principles, including data product design and delivery, and the end-to-end management of analytics from source to insight. You will be confident leading Agile delivery in a customer-focused setting, turning business needs into clear, deliverable requirements and helping shape complex data products from design through to delivery. You will also bring a strong attention to detail and a practical, quality-focused approach, with a track record of delivering successful products.

If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:

• You will ideally bring experience of establishing processes within a new team environment, along with knowledge of the Academic sector, including publisher products, services and wider industry trends.
• Strong commercial awareness would also be valuable, helping you to identify business priorities and maintain a clear focus on value.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.

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.

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

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 22nd June 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect screening interviews to take place week commencing 15th June 2026 with final selection interviews week commencing 13th July 2026.

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:

• A 30-minute screening call during the recruitment period with the Hiring Manager. Early application is recommended.
• Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is 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 is 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.