858 Product Innovation jobs in the United Kingdom

• Lead the ideation and conceptualisation of new FMCG products that align with market opportunities and company strategy.
• Conduct comprehensive market research, consumer trend analysis, and competitor benchmarking to identify innovation opportunities.
• Oversee the product development process, working closely with R&D, marketing, sales, and supply chain teams.
• Develop detailed product briefs, specifications, and business cases for new product initiatives.
• Manage product launch activities, including go-to-market strategies, marketing plans, and sales training.
• Analyse product performance data, sales figures, and consumer feedback to inform product improvements and future innovations.
• Collaborate with external agencies, suppliers, and manufacturers to ensure product quality and timely delivery.
• Manage product portfolio, identifying opportunities for rationalisation or expansion.
• Stay abreast of industry innovations, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies relevant to the FMCG sector.
• Present new product proposals and performance updates to senior management.

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Food Science, or a related field. An MBA or Master's degree is a plus.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in product management or product innovation within the FMCG industry.
• Proven track record of successfully launching new products that have achieved commercial success.
• Strong understanding of consumer insights, market research methodologies, and data analysis.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of the product development lifecycle from concept to commercialisation.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Creative thinking and a passion for innovation in the consumer goods space.
• Ability to work collaboratively across different departments and with external partners.
• Experience with P&L management for product lines is desirable.

• Drive the innovation pipeline for new FMCG products, from ideation to commercialisation.
• Conduct in-depth market research, consumer insights analysis, and trend forecasting to identify unmet needs and market opportunities.
• Develop product concepts, business cases, and strategic roadmaps for new product launches.
• Collaborate closely with R&D, marketing, sales, supply chain, and regulatory teams throughout the product development process.
• Oversee product formulation, packaging design, and claims validation, ensuring alignment with brand positioning and consumer expectations.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful and timely product launches.
• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies in conjunction with the marketing team.
• Monitor post-launch performance, gather consumer feedback, and identify opportunities for product improvement.
• Stay abreast of competitor activities and emerging technologies within the FMCG landscape.
• Present product innovation strategies and progress to senior leadership.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Product Manager – Product Innovation who thrives in ambiguity, someone who can take ideas from zero to one, move quickly from concept to prototype, and learn through real user impact. You’ll drive experimentation across our platform, shaping new ways for educators to create and for students to engage.

You should be both strategic and hands-on, and able to connect insights about teaching and learning with a strong technical understanding of how our platform works and how to improve it. You will identify emerging opportunities and translate them into tangible products by validating bold ideas through rapid prototyping, user testing, and cross-functional deliver, shipping features that redefine how teachers and students use Wordwall.

This role sits within our Product Innovation team, where we explore and develop new user experiences and capabilities that push Wordwall forward. You’ll collaborate closely with designers, engineers, data scientists, and educators to identify opportunities, validate ideas, and deliver high-quality, technically robust solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Discovery

• Identify and validate new opportunities to enhance how educators and students interact with Wordwall.
• Lead 0→1 product discovery, defining problems and opportunities where the solution isn’t yet clear.
• Use data insights, user research, and rapid experimentation to shape hypotheses and uncover high-impact ideas and educator use cases.
• Collaborate with design and engineering partners to rapidly prototype and test new concepts, balancing creativity with technical feasibility.
• Frame product bets that combine educational value, technical innovation, and strategic potential.

Execution

• Drive end-to-end product development for early-stage ideas, from initial concept through to first release.
• Translate ambiguous ideas into clear product requirements, user stories, and success metrics.
• Partner closely with engineers to ensure technical feasibility and architectural scalability as prototypes evolve toward production.
• Facilitate rapid iteration and lightweight delivery, enabling the team to learn quickly and adapt based on results.
• Maintain a bias toward action and experimentation, ensuring forward momentum even amid uncertainty.

Iteration

• Analyze usage data, engagement patterns, and learning outcomes to evaluate the impact of new features.
• Refine early-stage products through A/B testing, user feedback, and post-launch insights.
• Continuously improve product quality, usability, and performance through data-driven iteration.
• Capture and share learnings from each experiment to inform future 0→1 initiatives.

Stakeholder & Scaling

• Champion educator and student perspectives, ensuring every innovation enhances real-world teaching and learning.
• Partner across product, engineering, and commercial teams to integrate validated experiments into the core platform.
• Communicate discoveries and progress with clarity, building trust and excitement around innovation efforts.
• Contribute to defining the operating model for 0→1 innovation, helping the team establish repeatable methods for testing, validating, and scaling new ideas.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 4–6 years of product management experience, ideally in a SaaS or consumer-facing product environment.

• Proven experience with AI-driven product development, including generative AI or recommendation systems across a spectrum of use cases.
• Demonstrated ability to work with technical teams — comfortable discussing APIs, data models, and system architecture at a conceptual level. 
• Experience leading end-to-end product development cycles, from ideation and discovery through delivery and measurement.
• Strong ability to translate user needs into clear product requirements and actionable priorities. Demonstrated ability to prototype and test quickly, using lightweight design and validation methods.
• Experience with data-informed decision making, including setting success metrics, analyzing engagement data, and using A/B testing or experimentation frameworks.
• Proven track record of shipping user-facing products that improve engagement, usability, or retention.
• Strong collaboration skills — able to communicate effectively with engineers, designers, and stakeholders.
• Curiosity and creativity — a passion for exploring emerging technologies (AI, personalization, adaptive learning, etc.) and turning them into real user value.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on education technology, content creation tools, direct-to-consumer SaaS or PLG product
• Background in education technology, B2C software, or marketplaces
• Technical background (e.g., computer science, data science, or engineering degree) or equivalent practical experience
• An understanding of user behavior analytics tools, SQL or similar tools for hands-on data analysis
• Passion for improving learning outcomes and teaching impact through technology.

Benefits

What We Offer

• £60-85K GBP annual salary
• Fully remote working #LI-Remote
• High growth, investor backed environment
• A collaborative culture with real opportunities to make an impact

About Wordwall

Wordwall empowers educators to create interactive, customizable teaching materials in minutes—turning static lessons into dynamic, student-centered learning experiences. With just a few simple inputs, teachers can generate a variety of gamified activities, from quizzes and flashcards to arcade-style challenges, making learning more engaging and effective.

We’re flipping the script on traditional educational publishing by putting powerful creation tools directly into teachers’ hands. Our platform fuels a bottom-up content ecosystem—scalable, shareable, and deeply attuned to real classroom needs—powered by a global community of educators.

With millions of active users, strong organic traction, and a product that’s beloved by teachers worldwide, Wordwall is entering an exciting new chapter. We’re focused on building upon an already great product and increasing our impact and reach in key markets like the U.S. and Europe, deepening engagement with our paid user base, and driving innovation through emerging technologies. We believe we can build an even more powerful product to unlock access to a larger customer base. We’re a lean, mission-driven, remote team building for long-term impact—and we’re looking for sharp, strategic product thinkers to help us scale both our product and our purpose.

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose. 

Your Role:

In the Enterprise Data & Analytics team at Capgemini Invent, we help world leading organisations reimagine their business and unlock value through a hands-on approach of leveraging data and artificial intelligence.

Our mission is to put Capgemini Invent at the forefront of AI Consulting. You will be joining our AI Product Innovation team, which is a small but rapidly growing team, home of product and data science expertise, including genAI and agentic AI. We bring an innovative product driven approach to our client’s biggest challenges, while striving to provide a stimulating and rewarding home for the best AI talent!  

We EXPLORE the art of the possible - We are continuously scanning for opportunities to leverage emerging technologies to drive value for our clients. We aim to inspire our clients with the art of the possible, leveraging design thinking and horizon scanning techniques to identify truly innovative solutions. 

We ACCELERATE impact with products - We test ideas through rapid experimentation and proof of concept generation, and turn them into fully productionised AI products, working closely with users to ensure product adoption. 

We ENABLE change with AI – We don’t just build and deploy AI products, but we re-imagine business operations - introducing new capabilities by integrating AI products into day-to-day processes. We have extensive experience in setting up, running and scaling AI innovation capabilities, focusing on building the right culture and operating model, underpinned by sustainable AI and assurance practises.  

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

Your Profile:

As a member of the AI Product Innovation team, you will be fundamental to the growth and continuous development of our capability. We look for people who align with our core values, have a genuine interest in the advancement of AI, are curious by nature, and have an entrepreneurial spirit. Below some of the key skills and experiences we look for in candidates – however we don’t expect you to hit all of them, we want to build a team which has a diversity of experiences.  We look for: 

• A strong understanding of AI technologies, either from hands-on experience or from project exposure 
• Experience in AI product delivery, from discovery all the way to solution deployment, either as technical or non-technical member of the product team 
• Experience contributing to running discovery and designing user-centric solutions 
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and tools for AI product lifecycle management 
• Strong communication, storytelling and collaboration skills with internal and external stakeholders 
• A growth mindset and a passion for learning and experimenting with new technologies and methods 

What you'll love about working here:

If you are passionate about creating impactful AI solutions, that solve real-world problems, and you have a collaborative mindset that fosters learning, then this is the role for you. We continuously invest in creating an environment and culture that fosters innovation: you will be joining a team of like-minded individuals, who are all aligned by a common set of values: 

• We like to get stuck in and make things happen 
• We are not afraid to fail - and we do it fast 
• We like to think big and challenge the status quo 
• We reward entrepreneurship 
• We are a meritocracy – looking for the best ideas 
• We value humility 
• Collaboration is our superpower 

Need to know:

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR:

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about.  In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

• Lead the ideation and development of new FMCG product concepts.
• Conduct thorough market research and competitor analysis.
• Define product strategies and roadmaps for innovation.
• Oversee product formulation, testing, and quality assurance.
• Collaborate with packaging and design teams for optimal presentation.
• Develop comprehensive go-to-market plans and launch strategies.
• Manage product development timelines and budgets effectively.
• Lead and mentor a team of product innovators and developers.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration across R&D, Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain.
• Monitor post-launch product performance and identify areas for improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Food Science, or related field.
• MBA or Master's degree is a plus.
• 8-10 years of experience in FMCG product development and innovation.
• Proven success in launching new products to market.
• Strong understanding of consumer trends and market dynamics.
• Excellent leadership, strategic planning, and project management skills.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in data analysis and market intelligence tools.