Product Developer

Location:
Hybrid: Home-based with occasional travel to London Office

Working Hours: Full time, permanent

Accelerate People are an Ofqual accredited Apprenticeship Assessment Organisation. We specialise in delivering high-quality, robust assessments and work with employers, colleges, and training providers to enable apprentices to fulfil their potential. We put the apprentice at the heart of everything we do, and in collaboration with training providers, employers, and apprentices, we ensure apprentices are prepared for real-world success. Our commitment to utilising technology fosters a seamless and accessible assessment experience,ultimately benefiting both apprentices and businesses.

We are incredibly ambitious – for ourselves, the providers we work with, and the apprentices we assess.

Accelerate People are part of the Blenheim Chalcotportfolio. Blenheim Chalcotis the UK’s leading digital venture builder. We invest more than just funds, we invest our knowledge and experience,our ideas and infrastructure. Our ventures are at the forefront of a multitude of industries being disrupted digitally, including Fin Tech, EdTech,Gov Tech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. Ventures we have built range from

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Finance to Agilisys and even the Rajasthan Royals IPL cricket team. All our 20+ portfolio companies have been incubated and launched by us and now have total sales of over £0.5bn and more than 3,000 employees. Our assets under management stand at greater than £1.5bn.

In response to recent apprenticeship reforms and shifting assessment requirements, Accelerate People is redeveloping its current apprenticeship assessment products. We are seeking an outstanding Product Developer to help create documentation, support materials, and assessments for our existing suite—and potentially new products that may arise as the landscape evolves.

You will work in a small team and very closely with our Product Manager, utilising technology to design and deliver our products expertly and efficiently. You will strike the appropriate balance between being a dynamic and creative thinker and applying the compliance mindset that keeps our assessment slow riskin the eyes of our regulators.

Stakeholder engagement is an important part of how weoperate, and you may occasionally support sessions or attend meetings with providers, employers and apprentices who access our assessments.

As part of our combined Product and Marketing activities, you may also be asked to support the creation of marketing materials from time to time, typically by providing input on social media content or reviewing assets produced by the team.

Product Development: Lead the development of all materials associated with ourapprenticeshipassessments;including the assessments themselves, supportmaterialsand other documentation, ensuring that our systems and platforms reflect the latest developments.

Product Testing: Lead the testing of our materials and documentation to ensure successful transition from design to delivery. Ensure the platforms we use to present ourmaterialsand the associated information are current and allow an excellent user experience.

Stakeholder Engagement: Support our engagement with providers,employer sand apprentices by joining sessions or meetings when needed. You may help deliver updates on existing or new products, or contribute your product insight as part of wider team discussions.

Communication: Utilise your exceptional written communication skills, with attention to detail that is second to none, to produce ‘right first time’ products to testing quality assurance measures.

Assessment Expertise: Understand assessment principles and standard setting (e.g., the Angoffmethod) and implement those principles in our products to lead to secure and robust assessments.

Technology: Enthusiastically harness technology (such as GenAI) to improve and enhance the design and delivery of our products. Advocate the use of tech platforms to improve our work.

Marketing Support: Contribute to marketing activities when needed byprovidingproduct insight, reviewing content, or supporting…