Group Product Manager Lecturer Technology (Remote)

Become part of our team as Group Product Manager Lecturer Tech (m/f/d). Start immediately in full-time at one of our locations in Germany, London or Remote.

In this role you will have the opportunity to shape our Lecturer Tech products and the way we organize the recruitment, contracting and planning of thousands of lecturers and courses. Within our Lecturer domain you will work with an experienced team of engineers and designers and other roles to drive our ambitious business goals from ideation to delivery. You will peer with the existing Product Managers. You will drive outcomes through continuous discovery, building MVPs and iterating on released product improvements.

Your tasks

• Oversee the entire product lifecycle for tools and systems that support lecturer planning, course scheduling, examination scheduling, and the management of freelancer contracts, from initial discovery and research to development and performance analysis, ensuring ongoing optimization.
• Develop a deep understanding of the operational needs of our academic staff, including course planning, scheduling complexities, examination timelines, and the contracting of freelance lecturers, using data and user feedback to identify and prioritize key opportunities for improvement.
• Define, monitor, and enhance product success metrics, particularly focusing on how our solutions improve the efficiency and effectiveness of course and examination scheduling, lecturer planning, and freelancer management.
• Lead complex cross-functional product implementation, bringing Operations, Service, Academics, or other areas together to deliver superb customer experiences.
• Shape your initiatives in line with IU group’s strategy and our business unit’s priorities.

Your Profile

• At least 3-5 years experience working in a Product Management role managing remote product teams or individual team members.
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle in international companies.
• You are passionate about creating a great customer experience and smooth customer journeys.
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
• You are proactive and interested in understanding the problem to solve, rather than executing on stakeholder requests.
• Agile mindset, persuasiveness, and strong communication skills.
• A structured way of working to deal with competing priorities and organizational complexity.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities, including data driven idea validation and testing.
• Proactive, ambitious, and assertive: you take ownership of your work.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: You want to make things happen. Experience in building educational products or integrating AI into products is advantageous, but not required.

We offer

• Shape your career: Rapid growth opens up many new opportunities for you. Tell us about your dream career and we’ll help you make it happen.
• Work from wherever you want …: Modern tools and video meetings make it possible: with IU, the boundaries between here and there blur. You want to work from abroad for a while? No problem thanks to our WorkFlex benefits.
• … and flexible time: It’s your job: We trust you and give you the greatest possible freedom to organize yourself.
• You have the choice: You are free to choose your equipment, because everyone has its own preferences when it comes to hardware.
• Take your knowledge to a new level: Where if not with us? Enjoy free access to all our e-learning platforms. In addition, we will finance you a complete technology course of your choice.
• Get a good rest: we push ourselves every day to go above and beyond. But we also take the time to recharge our batteries: with 30 days of annual vacation for all employees and an additional day off on your birthday! Need more time off? How about a sabbatical?
• Reach your destination sustainably: Germanys 9 euro ticket is history, we got the DeutschlandTicket for 7 €. You prefer to travel by bike? Then a Jobrad (bike leasing) might be the right choice. We offer many environmentally conscious options to be mobile both professionally and privately.

Join our education platform team at Germany’s largest university with over 100,000 students! We are passionate, competitive, open to anything new – and we live to develop anything that makes our students’ digital education experience and our IU services better to achieve our vision “Everybody can access education to grow”.

Sounds like the perfect job for you? Then apply now! If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact philipp.kanceljak@iu.org.

Words are followed by actions: We take our “Culture Of Everyone” very seriously and would like to take this opportunity to expressly point out that you are welcome to join us, regardless of your origin, religion, gender, age or sexual orientation. Even if you have a disability, our doors are wide open to you. We look forward to a diverse community here at IU!