Assistant Product Manager

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Join Bloomsbury’s dynamic and friendly Product Innovation team and contribute to the ongoing development of our globally respected academic digital resources. This Assistant Product Manager role offers a fantastic opportunity to work at the heart of Bloomsbury Digital Resources, supporting the delivery and improvement of our Humanities and Social Sciences digital products.

You’ll play a crucial part in ensuring our platforms continue to meet the needs of academic users worldwide—coordinating content releases, supporting platform enhancements, and working cross-functionally to deliver high-quality digital experiences. This role is perfect for someone with strong attention to detail, excellent organisation skills, and an eagerness to grow within digital product management.

The main purpose of this role is to manage products and platforms from Bloomsbury’s Academic digital portfolio, ensuring that they continue to meet market needs, through delivering timely product launches, content updates, and functional enhancements.

The role can be based in London or Oxford and the application close date is
23:59 Monday August 10th2026.

• Manage and track schedules for content releases, enhancements, and platform updates. Work with internal colleagues and external suppliers to ensure smooth workflows and timely delivery.
• Upload, test, and maintain high-quality content across our platforms. Oversee metadata collection, indexing, and refinement, ensuring accuracy and consistency.

• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and UX teams to gather and analyse user feedback through various research methods to drive product improvements.
• Use platform analytics (e.g., GA4) to generate actionable insights on product performance, sharing findings with stakeholders to inform product development.
• Work with UX and Discovery colleagues to ensure our platforms meet user expectations and industry standards.

• Supporting the research and analysis to help define product requirements from stakeholders; translating them into clear, actionable specifications for development teams.
• Contribute to product roadmaps and strategy by conducting market and competitor analysis and identifying opportunities for innovation that align with business objectives.
• Help champion products and platforms across the business, responding to queries, tracking bugs, and supporting copy, design, and navigation updates.

• Support discussions around new features, content types, taxonomies, and accessibility improvements.
• Identify inefficiencies, suggest refinements, and explore AI-driven workflow enhancements to support continuous improvement across the team.

• Experience of leading projects and working independently.
• Comfortable working with digital systems and content (Jira, XML, CMS; knowledge of HTML a plus, but not essential).
• Quick to learn new processes and tools.
• Excellent communication and time-management skills.
• Strong attention to detail and a problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with internal teams and external suppliers.
• Proactive approach, with enthusiasm for developing within product management.
• Experience of analysing producing usage reports and analysing usage data is desirable, but not essential.

The role is a full-time, permanent position.

The salary range for this role is £32,000-£34,000 p.a., depending on experience.

The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP

OR

at our Oxford office, Kemp House, Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9PH

on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are
Wednesdays and Thursdays
.

This position is eligible for Bloomsbury’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To assist candidates who want to start and to establish a career in publishing, Bloomsbury offers an interest-free rental deposit to support securing somewhere to live. The rental deposit loan can be up…