About the role

  • Senior Product Manager responsible for the student journey from visit to enrolment. Shaping user experiences at QS, a leader in higher education services with global impact.

Responsibilities

  • QS is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Product-Led Growth (PLG) to own the end-to-end student and partner journey - from anonymous visit through logged-in engagement to enrolment.
  • You will shape front-end and logged-in experiences to accelerate time-to-first-value, deepen engagement and improve retention, embedding intelligence and personalisation to boost decision confidence.
  • Operating horizontally across product and growth teams, you’ll align and sequence initiatives with regional, marketing and university partners to balance global scalability with local nuance.
  • Success is measured by conversion, activation, engagement depth, retention and enrolment impact; the role reports to a senior product leader and is based in a QS hub with hybrid working.
  • Own the full funnel, treating conversion and activation as product design challenges.
  • Lead experimentation across anonymous and logged-in journeys to drive measurable uplift.
  • Evolve identity, preferences and personalised matching to reduce friction and improve decision confidence.
  • Influence across teams to deliver cohesive journeys that improve partner enrolment outcomes.

Requirements

  • Proven ownership of activation, engagement, conversion, or post-intent journeys in digital products.
  • Track record designing front-end experiences that drive curiosity, intent, and time-to-first-value.
  • Deep understanding of logged-in experiences: identity, preferences, and personalisation.
  • Hands-on experimentation mindset; fluent in A/B testing, cohort analysis, funnel metrics, instrumentation, and guardrail design.
  • Experience with discovery, relevance, matching, or recommendation systems.
  • Strong partnership with CRM/lifecycle platforms; aligning in-product signals with lifecycle touchpoints (without owning campaigns).
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills; comfortable influencing across complex organisations.
  • Agile product delivery; ability to balance quick wins with strategic bets.
  • Advantageous: SaaS, marketplaces, platforms, or edtech; B2C growth; SEO/organic acquisition; student recruitment journeys; technical fluency to engage with engineering.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary
  • Access to an annual bonus scheme (for qualifying roles only)
  • 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays – increasing to 27 days after 5 years’
  • Access to a Buy Holiday scheme allowing you to buy up to 5 additional holiday days per year
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous pension through Royal London
  • Comprehensive private medical insurance and wellness scheme through Vitality
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • A vibrant social environment and multicultural and multinational culture
  • Free subscription to the Calm App – the #1 app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation
  • A focus on welfare which is led by our global wellness team, with mental health first aiders globally
  • Access to a variety of diversity and inclusion initiatives and groups
  • Strong recognition and reward programs – including a peer-to-peer recognition platform, quarterly and annual QS Applaud Awards, Connect with your Career annual PD event
  • Support for volunteering and study leave
  • Free subscription to LinkedIn learning – with over 5000 courses and programmes at your fingertips
  • Options to join our outstanding global Mentorship programme

Job title

Senior Product Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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