About the Role

You will oversee digital product expertise within the UK Product team, enabling the creation of relevant, compelling, and effective digital resources and representing customer and UK Education’s needs for new platform developments. This role is guided by digital learning principles and technical production capabilities, and works closely with UK Product Director, editorial and product teams, as well as cross-functionally with technology and centralised digital teams. The Digital Lead represents the UK’s customer needs across OE-wide platforms and initiatives, ensuring strategic alignment and market relevance, and also takes ownership of data and reporting for UK digital products, delivering insights and enhancing data capabilities.

Duties include:

Strategy & Market Insight

• Maintain a deep understanding of market needs across UK lists and user needs at all levels.
• Collaborate with UK senior stakeholders to define and shape digital strategy.
• Represent UK customers in OE-wide digital initiatives to influence strategy and ensure market fit.
• Monitor digital publishing trends and competitive offerings in the UK market.

Digital Product Development

• Serve as the subject matter expert on UK digital platforms, advising on optimal solutions for different subjects and curricula.
• Partner with the UK Product Director and publishing teams to shape and deliver digital programmes that are effective, achievable, and within budget.
• Act as a liaison between UK Publishing and the Digital Product Management team, escalating requirements and validating concepts.

Editorial Collaboration

• Oversee and conduct quality assurance testing during editorial and production phases.
• Provide training and guidance to editorial teams, authors, and freelancers on digital platforms and tools.

Project & Process Management

• Lead process improvements and promote best practices to ensure timely and efficient product delivery.
• Collaborate with Editorial Managers to forecast and plan digital project resourcing.

Data & Reporting

• Lead data and reporting for UK digital products, delivering actionable insights to publishing teams.
• Work with OE’s central data teams to enhance reporting capabilities tailored to UK needs.

Financial Oversight

• Monitor and manage UK digital overheads, ensuring alignment with budget and resolving issues proactively.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Support Sales and Marketing teams with digital product knowledge and data insights.
• Champion the voice of UK customers across OE forums, collaborating across departments and functions.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office. 

About You

Essential:

• Digital Product Expertise - Understanding of digital product lifecycles, effective user experience and interface design, and how to deliver innovative solutions that enhance learning and teaching outcomes.
• Strategic Vison & Execution - Ability to shape and drive digital strategies aligned with organizational goals, ensuring scalability and long-term impact in the education publishing sector - both in school and for individual learners.
• Project Management - Proven capability to lead complex, cross-functional projects from concept to delivery, balancing timelines, budgets, and stakeholder expectations.
• Technical Awareness - Understanding of emerging technologies, digital platforms, and integration requirements within publishing and web ecosystems, enabling informed decisions and innovation.

Desirable:

• Data Literacy - Strong data literacy to interpret analytics, measure product performance, and inform strategic decisions that improve learner engagement and content effectiveness.
• Influencing & Collaborative Leadership - Skilled at building relationships, influencing senior stakeholders, and fostering collaboration across editorial, technology, and commercial teams to achieve shared objectives.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. 

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts. 

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact grace.mcfadyen@oup.com with any queries relating to this role. 

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.