Product Manager

Title: Product Manager

Location: Sheffield or London

Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office

Contact Type: Full time, permanent

Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions. 

Role overview:

As part of our expanding and evolving Product function, we’re seeking 2 experienced Product Managers to take ownership of key areas in our portfolio. These roles are focused on front-end customer value, shaping the future direction of our products to deliver real impact for teachers, students, and parents. Working in a hybrid scaled agile model, you’ll collaborate with Engineering, Data, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and more to drive innovation and growth.

Discover

• Own the Value Proposition – Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for your product(s), ensuring customer value translates into impactful offerings and pricing models.
• Manage Intake Processes – Oversee requests and ideas, working with engineering for feasibility assessments and roadmap prioritization.
• Lead Research & Insights – Conduct user research, competitor analysis, and industry scanning to shape future product direction.

Deliver

• Define High-Level Initiatives & Epics – Outline key functionalities, design KPIs, and align product analytics.
• Support Delivery Teams – Work alongside Product Owners and UX to ensure seamless execution and overcome emergent challenges.
• Drive Business Change – Partner with Business Change teams to plan and execute large-scale product releases and transformations.
• Mentor & Train – Support junior team members in product improvement and strategic transformation initiatives.

Drive

• Go-to-Market Leadership – Plan and execute all non-development activities, including marketing, sales enablement, training, and customer support readiness.
• Measure Success – Define KPIs and collaborate with Data teams to ensure ongoing performance tracking and reporting.
• P&L Ownership – Influence product profitability, pricing strategies, and commercial performance.
• Continuous Improvement – Leverage customer insights, service reviews, and analytics to enhance product effectiveness.

What You Need to Succeed

Experience

• Essential: Proven Product Management experience beyond delivery (not suitable for early-career Product Owners transitioning to PM roles).
• Highly Desirable: Experience in SaaS product organizations (B2B or B2C), end-to-end product ownership, and P&L management.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of hybrid agile delivery models, commercial and financial awareness, and matrix-style delivery organizations.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
• Proficiency in Jira (Backlog Management) and Figma (Design Tool).
• Comfortable working in high-ambiguity, fast-changing environments, driving process improvements and transformation.

Desirable Qualifications

• Certified Product Owner or Product Manager accreditation.
• SAFe or similar scaled agile framework training.
• User-Centered Design and Product Analytics certifications.

What do you get in return?

·        25 days annual leave rising to 30

·        5% pension after probation

·        State of the art city centre offices

·        Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World

·        Discounted city centre parking 

·        Free eye care cover

·        Life Assurance

·        Cycle to Work Scheme

·        EAP (Employee assistance programme)

·        Monthly Tes Socials

·        Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management. 

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education. 

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. 

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. 

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability.  We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

www.tes.com/tesglobal