About the Role
UniQuest is seeking a new executive leader to spearhead its next phase of growth. As Head of Product & Student Journey, you will define and implement successful strategies for the student journey, translating insights into market-leading products and services. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape product strategy at an executive level, leveraging a proprietary data asset and a large delivery organization.
Responsibilities
- Define what constitutes an excellent student journey across international and domestic recruitment, conversion, and admissions, based on data, external evidence, and partner discovery.
- Manage the product and service roadmap, prioritizing development, improvement, and retirement of offerings.
- Develop and manage the evidence engine, including benchmarks, journey analytics, and value demonstration to prove impact to partners.
- Establish an operating cadence that aligns commercial, delivery, and platform teams around priorities.
- Build and lead a direct team, starting with an insight analyst.
Requirements
- Eight or more years of experience in product management or service design.
- Meaningful experience with products that are substantially human-delivered and tech-enabled services.
- Experience in B2C with a focus on customer and conversion journeys, or service-oriented businesses.
- Proven ability to commission, interrogate, and act on data, making decisions from imperfect datasets.
- Experience running a roadmap that aligns engineering, operations, and commercial teams.
- Ability to decline requests from senior stakeholders with a well-reasoned explanation.
- Exceptional communication skills to lead through clarity and trust across functions.
- Ability to credibly represent the company's thinking to university senior leadership.
- Curiosity about higher education; ambition to become an authority in the sector is required.
Skills
- Product Management
- Service Design
- Data Analysis
- Roadmap Prioritization
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
Location
- Remote-first (UK)
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Executive
- 8+ years
About the Company
- UniQuest is the embedded enrolment partner to universities across the UK, US, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Our teams and technology are integrated within our partners' recruitment and admissions operations, engaging hundreds of thousands of students annually.
- We are part of Keystone Education Group, a major global student marketing and recruitment business.
- We are executing an ambitious strategy to 2030, focusing on market expansion, new product launches, and deepening institutional services, always prioritizing the student journey.
Equal Opportunity
- Keystone is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.
