Freelance job Generative AI Product Lead

Generative AI Product Lead (Engagement)

Salary: £42,000 - £61,600

Location: Cambridge, with  hybrid working arrangement

Contract: 12 months Fixed Term, Full time 35 hours per week

This pivotal position within International Education, reporting to the Head of Data, Analytics, and AI, serves as the key interface between the Generative AI (GenAI) technical Centre of Excellence (CofE) / Hub and International teams, ensuring that the needs of all stakeholders are clearly understood, and ideas captured and prioritised.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role 

• Strategic Impact: This role is essential for coordinating and optimizing GenAI capabilities across various directorates and major programs.
• Innovation and Leadership: As a trusted advisor on GenAI, you will, building on your own technical understanding of GenAI, champion its value to the business.
• Inclusive Collaboration: The role highlights inclusive collaboration, ensuring all stakeholders can contribute to GenAI initiatives.
• Professional Growth: This position offers the chance to work closely colleagues working on innovative AI projects.
• Change Management: You will play a key role in managing the people and change impacts when implementing GenAI capabilities.

About you

You will demonstrate a strong ability to manage stakeholders effectively, working closely to understand business priorities and areas of exploration within GenAI. You will ensure that the organisation's AI initiatives are aligned with its strategic goals.

Advanced communication skills are key to the success of this role. You will support and contribute to communications on GenAI topics, ensuring stakeholders are informed and engaged.

You will also:

• Serve as a trusted source of information and advice on GenAI within the relevant business unit, acting as an ambassador for the value this technology can add and to the business
• Be a subject matter expert on GenAI to contribute to requirements and provide feedback on tools and deliverables
• Play a key role in scoping projects, business case creation, piloting, and trailing initiatives in collaboration with the GenAI CofE
• Contribute to understanding and considering the people and change impacts when productionizing GenAI capabilities

You will naturally collaborate with teams across the business unit and other GenAI Product Leads to share learnings and minimize duplication of effort. Supporting the initiation of scaling projects and continue to play a stakeholder role throughout the lifecycle.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. 

Please note that while we have a closing date for applications, we may close the role early if the right candidate is secured. We encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. 

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.