Assistant Product Manager

Salary £32,000 - £34,000 per annum

Location: London or Oxford

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

The opportunity

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 10th 2026.

Key responsibilities include:

Product Execution:

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.

Discovery and Customer Insight:

Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and UX teams to gather and analyze 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.

Product Strategy and Vision:

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.

Innovation and process enhancement:

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.

Knowledge, skills and experience

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.

Additional information

The role is a full-time, permanent position.

Salary Pay Point or Range:

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

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 to £3,000 and will be paid back over 2 years.

Please apply by answering the questions on our application form and uploading your CV and a cover letter (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button by 23:59 Monday August 10th 2026.

For best results, please use a desktop to apply as some mobile browsers may not fully support the application portal.

Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

25 days holiday
3.5 days Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits

Two paid Personal Wellness Days
Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
Work Anywhere Fortnight - For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
Season Ticket Loan
Learning & Development - Free access to LinkedIn Learning, BookMachine Campus, InRehearsal & IPG Skills Hub
Share Save Scheme
AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
Ride to Work Scheme
Peppy Health App
In-house Doctor
Eye Care Voucher Scheme
EAP Advice and Counselling

Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

The Company

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names. Read Our Story for how it all began.

Bloomsbury is committed to creating a working environment that stimulates creativity and collaboration, is respectful of difference, is inclusive and ethical in its practice, and promotes well-being. We are determined to nurture and develop our employees to reach their highest potential, and we know that our success is down to the passion, commitment and hard work of our talented people. We recognise the urgent need to attract and support applicants from all backgrounds and identities to become part of the global publishing industry, allowing diverse voices to reflect and shape our culture and society.

Please read more on our Missions and Values here.

Please read our environmental policy here.

Our Benefits

Pension

Flexible Working

Life Insurance

Staff Discount on Books

Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP)

Bike to Work

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