This role is responsible for ensuring that digital solutions strengthen classroom practice, reduce educator workload and enhance learning reinforcement while maintaining pedagogical integrity.
The position oversees product direction across curriculum-enabled practice, AI learning reinforcement, educator productivity tools and, homeschool learning products. It also provides oversight for curriculum content digitisation and structuring to ensure coherence, usability and scalability.
This position will work closely with Child Development, Tech, Data, Child Support Services and external partners to translate curriculum priorities into scalable, operationally viable product solutions.
Key Job Responsibilities
Portfolio Direction and Prioritisation
- Translate curriculum priorities into clear product objectives tied to measurable educator and parent outcomes
- Prioritise initiatives based on observed classroom friction, workload pressure, and reinforcement gaps
- Define what improvement looks like in practical terms such as time saved, clarity gained, or rework reduced
Innovation Framing and Guardrails
- Set boundaries for how AI productivity and reinforcement tools may be used in classrooms
- Ensure tools assist professional judgement rather than prescribe pedagogy
MVP Review and Scale Decisions
- Review live centre pilot results and determine whether products improve practice in real conditions
- Assess adoption behaviour and educator confidence before recommending scale
- Recommend refine, constrain, or stop decisions when evidence is weak
Commercial and Extension Oversight
- Work with the leadership to shape packaging and positioning for extensions beyond core provision
- Ensure commercialisation does not distort pedagogy or educator workflow
Leadership & People Management
- Provide functional leadership to cross-functional teams
- Coach and develop team members to ensure strong delivery discipline
- Drive clarity of roles, accountability and decision ownership
- Build collaborative relationships across Child Development, Tech,
- Data, CSS and Operations
Communication & Stakeholder Management
- Communicate product direction and governance boundaries clearly to senior leadership and operational stakeholders
- Translate complex digital and AI concepts into clear, practical language
- Facilitate alignment discussions and manage competing priorities as required.
What Success Looks Like
- Product objectives are clearly linked to educator and parent outcomes, and teams understand what problem each initiative is solving
- Roadmaps reflect real classroom friction and workload pressure, not internal preference or technology push
- Each initiative has defined improvement metrics such as time saved, clearer next steps, or reduced rework, and these are tracked consistently
- AI productivity and reinforcement tools are used within agreed boundaries, supporting professional judgement without prescribing pedagogy
- Pilot reviews are evidence-based, with clear documentation of adoption levels, educator confidence, and observed impact
- Scale, refine, constrain, or stop decisions are made decisively and recorded, avoiding prolonged pilots without direction
- Commercial extensions are packaged clearly and remain aligned with pedagogy, without adding workflow burden or creating bespoke builds
- Cross-functional teams operate with clear role ownership and decision rights, reducing duplication and confusion
- Stakeholders understand the product direction, guardrails, and trade-offs, and leadership discussions are supported by concise, evidence-backed updates
Qualifications And Job Requirements
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Business Administration, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems) or equivalent practical experience
- 812 years of relevant experience
- Postgraduate qualification advantageous
- Strong experience in product management or product ownership, including meaningful exposure to AI-enabled or data-driven products
- Experience operating in education, public sector, or other regulated environments is advantageous
What We Are Looking For
- Strong product judgement, able to connect curriculum priorities to clear, measurable educator and parent outcomes
- Ability to prioritise based on real classroom friction, workload pressure, and reinforcement gaps rather than internal preference
- Experience reviewing live pilots and making clear scale, refine, constrain, or stop decisions based on evidence
- Confidence setting practical AI guardrails, so tools support professional judgement and do not drift into prescription or scoring
- Structured thinker who defines improvement in practical terms such as time saved, clarity gained, or rework reduced
- Comfortable shaping packaging and positioning for extensions while protecting pedagogy and workflow integrity
- Functional leadership presence, able to drive clarity of roles, accountability, and decision ownership across teams
- Strong stakeholder management skills across Child Development, Tech, Data, CSS, Operations, and senior leadership
- Clear communicator who can translate complex digital and AI concepts into practical language
- Bias to action and resilience, able to move initiatives forward while navigating ambiguity and competing priorities
WHY THIS ROLE IS UNIQUE
- Operate at the point where curriculum priorities are translated into real products used in classrooms and child development workflows Influence how AI productivity and reinforcement tools are framed and governed
- Make evidence-based scale decisions that directly affect educator workload and child development clarity
- Work across pedagogy, product, data, and operations in a role that combines governance discipline with real delivery accountability
- Shape packaging and commercial extensions
- Engage directly with senior leadership on roadmap, guardrails, and scale decisions, with visible organisational impact
