Jobs at Zen Educate

Senior Product Manager individual contributor responsible for framing problems, conducting discovery and experiments, using qualitative and quantitative insights, defining outcome-based metrics, and partnering with design, engineering, and operations to deliver improvements. The role also helps strengthen product practices, tools, feedback loops, and team alignment while addressing complex marketplace and education-system challenges.

Leads and grows a distributed engineering team of approximately 10–15 product engineers. Responsibilities include coaching, conducting one-on-ones, providing feedback, hiring, running interviews and debriefs, supporting performance and compensation processes, improving team systems through automation, contributing to technical decisions, and occasionally shipping engineering improvements. The role partners closely with Product and Technology leadership while building a sustainable, high-performing engineering culture.

Own weekly and monthly management reporting, automate finance processes, support budgeting and reforecasting, build driver-based models, perform variance and business performance analysis, and partner with regional and commercial leaders. The role also manages finance-system data reconciliation, supports pricing and investment decisions, and documents processes. Candidates need strong analytical, communication, commercial, and efficiency-focused skills in a fast-growing organization.

Owns analysis and execution of supply-side and commercial decisions, including educator recruitment, lead-spend allocation, process improvement, and regional liquidity. The role builds analytical models, structures ambiguous problems, validates data, and influences regional operators and leadership to act on recommendations. It requires strong mathematical and spreadsheet skills, analytical judgment, communication, stakeholder influence, and high ownership in a fast-growing education technology company.

Conduct phone, email, and LinkedIn outreach to new schools, explain Zen Educate’s platform, identify needs, and book meetings for account executives. Track outreach and pipeline in the Zen Platform, support educators in finding school opportunities, collaborate with the new business team, test outreach approaches, and work toward sales targets in a fast-paced office environment.

Own product design end to end, from customer discovery and research through flows, prototypes, experimentation, and shipped product. Design scalable systems and interfaces, collaborate closely with engineers and product managers, contribute to production implementation, synthesize learning, mentor designers, and help shape Zen’s evolving design practices and design system.

Own product design end-to-end, from user discovery and research through flows, prototypes, validation, implementation, and shipped experiences. Design scalable systems and interfaces for educators, schools, and internal teams; collaborate closely with product managers and engineers; use rapid experimentation and AI-assisted tools; synthesize insights; mentor designers; and help shape Zen’s evolving design practices and product-building culture.

Principal Product Manager individual contributor responsible for defining product problems, conducting discovery and experiments, using qualitative and quantitative data, setting outcome-based metrics, and partnering with design, engineering, operations, sales, and growth teams. The role focuses on improving digital products, operational systems, and product practices while leading through influence in a complex marketplace environment.

Principal Product Manager responsible for defining complex problems, leading discovery and experimentation, setting outcome-based metrics, and partnering with design, engineering, operations, sales, and growth teams to deliver impactful products. This individual contributor role focuses on improving product practices, simplifying systems, resolving ambiguity, and scaling digital marketplace products across education and related environments.

Manage relationships with schools, guide decision-makers through recruitment processes, conduct outbound calls, meet sales or KPI targets, expand account usage, source suitable teachers, and collaborate with Sales, Operations, and Technology teams to resolve issues and improve the platform experience.

Own weekly and monthly management reporting, automate finance processes, and support budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and driver-based financial modelling. Partner with regional and commercial leaders on performance, unit economics, marketing ROI, pricing, and investment decisions. Reconcile data across finance systems, improve reporting efficiency, and communicate actionable insights to senior stakeholders.

Lead Zen Educate’s South West commercial region by developing managers and individual contributors, driving growth, improving customer experience, and building scalable operating systems. The role involves understanding customer needs, identifying regional growth opportunities, creating playbooks and procedures, aligning with central teams, and delivering ambitious commercial results through structured team leadership.

Lead the South West commercial region, coaching managers and individual contributors, driving growth, and establishing scalable systems, playbooks, and operating procedures. The role involves understanding customer needs, improving customer experience and operational efficiency, aligning with central functions, and executing regional growth initiatives. You will lead a high-performing team serving schools through Zen Educate’s staffing platform and help expand adoption across the region.

Lead Zen Educate’s South West UK commercial region by coaching managers and individual contributors, driving growth, developing operating playbooks, improving customer experience, and aligning regional execution with central functions. The role oversees a high-performing team, identifies growth opportunities, establishes scalable processes, and expands adoption of Zen’s education staffing platform across the region.

Manage and grow relationships with schools to place vetted teachers and support staff. Use consultative sales to guide hiring processes, source candidates, hit revenue/KPI targets, collaborate with Sales/Ops/Product teams, and support operational delivery. Regular outbound calling, problem-solving, and feedback to product and ops are core responsibilities in a fast-paced, mission-driven startup.

Manage relationships with schools, guide leaders through recruitment, conduct consultative outbound calls, support account expansion, source suitable education staff, resolve booking issues, collaborate with Sales, Operations, and Technology teams, and provide product feedback. The role focuses on achieving sales or performance targets while delivering a strong customer experience in a fast-growing education technology startup.

Own new business growth for a regional territory: run discovery calls, demo the Zen platform in schools, close deals, onboard and activate new schools, perform targeted outreach, and feed product insights back to the team. Role is hands-on, customer-facing, and focused on rapidly converting prospects into fully live customers.

Support daily recruitment operations by maintaining candidate availability, fulfilling short-term school bookings, onboarding and assessing teachers and teaching assistants, completing right-to-work checks, and building positive candidate relationships. Source and match education professionals to school requirements while collaborating with sales and technology teams to improve operational efficiency and candidate experience.

Own weekly and monthly management reporting, automate manual finance processes, support annual budgeting and reforecasting, and build driver-based models for revenue, headcount, and costs. Conduct variance, unit economics, regional performance, and marketing ROI analysis. Partner with regional and commercial leaders, provide actionable insights, reconcile finance systems, and support pricing and investment decisions.

Lead the UK People function for a rapidly growing organization. Coach managers, improve performance and progression practices, support workforce planning, evolve hiring processes, manage complex employee relations matters, ensure UK employment compliance, develop people metrics, and build scalable policies, systems, and processes. The role partners closely with founders and senior leadership while leading a 270-plus-person UK organization.