Product Lead - Test Security

Job Title: Product Lead - Test Security

Salary:  £70,000 - £93,700

Location: Cambridge, UK - Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Deliver security‑focused product innovation that protects the integrity and global impact of the world's most trusted English test.

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

We're looking for a strategic and impact‑driven Product Lead – Test Security to join our team. This is a rare opportunity to shape how we safeguard fairness and trust for millions of learners worldwide—while working at the forefront of emerging technologies, human behaviour, and global security threats.
 
About the role  

As our Product Lead for Test Security, you will be accountable for setting and delivering the product strategy for how we detect, deter and prevent test malpractice within our assessment products.

You will build the roadmap for critical security capabilities—ranging from AI‑enabled fraud detection and enhancements to response analytics—ensuring solutions are scalable, ethical, and aligned with the organisation's mission to protect the integrity of our tests.

You'll work closely with colleagues across test security, engineering, data science, research, psychometrics, operations, legal and compliance to deliver high‑impact features that balance robust protection with excellent user experience.

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:

• Translating emerging threats and business needs into clear, prioritised product requirements.
• Leading product discovery to validate the impact and feasibility of solutions. 
• Partnering with technical teams to deliver secure, resilient and high‑performing features such as anomaly detection models and identity verification workflows.
• Defining and tracking product success metrics, including security efficacy, false‑positive rates and user impact.
• Staying ahead of industry trends, fraud behaviours and evolving risks in the assessment and broader trust & safety landscape.
• Ensuring solutions comply with regulatory expectations and uphold fairness, transparency and responsible innovation principles.

This position is hybrid, requiring 40–60% of your time on-site in Cambridge for collaboration and face‑to‑face connection. Flexible working requests will be considered from day one, including adjustments for candidates with disabilities or long‑term health conditions.  

About You  

You will bring strong experience in product management or an adjacent field (e.g., trust & safety, risk technology, security platforms) and can demonstrate:

• Proven success delivering complex, cross‑functional products or systems.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make informed trade-offs and drive strategic clarity.
• Confidence engaging with data, analytics, and emerging technologies such as machine learning or behavioural analytics.
• Strong communication skills, capable of influencing senior stakeholders and translating complexity into clear direction.
• Experience working in high‑integrity or compliance‑sensitive environments (e.g., assessments, fintech, security, identity, edtech) is highly advantageous.

If you meet the above minimum criteria, we encourage you to apply.

Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate:

• Experience working in global or culturally diverse environments.
• A background in test security, fraud detection, identity verification or misuse prevention.
• Familiarity with psychometrics or assessment processes.
• Understanding of ethical AI, risk frameworks or responsible innovation principles.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

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 rewards package, 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  

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 5 February 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from 12 – 18 February 2026.

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect: 

• Virtual interview via MS Teams. You will be provided with a brief to complete a role related task which will need to be returned by email in advance of your interview. 
• Potentially a final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.  

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

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter. 

Why join us 

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is 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 is 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.