Axiom Maths is a maths education charity on a mission to help every child with the heart and head for maths realise the potential of their power. Every year 30,000 children who were top performers at the end of primary school don’t go on to get top GCSE grades in maths. We aim to change that by partnering with schools across England and Wales to run fully-funded in-school or online maths circles. Pupils tackle challenging and rewarding maths problems in a supportive social group where the subject is valued.

We're looking for team members who will bring the best of themselves to Axiom Maths, and the best of Axiom Maths to the wider system. We champion innovation and our employees are empowered to implement new ideas without barriers. We are a small team, and we place a big focus on open communication, collaboration and supporting one another.

About this role

The key responsibilities of this role include:

Strategy, Vision & Leadership 

• Own the organisation's technology and data strategy: setting direction, making the right calls, and keeping the roadmap ahead of where the organisation is going

• Set a clear vision for how every team thinks about and uses data and technology, and make it stick

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the technical review that precedes any build: defining its scope, leading its execution, interpreting findings, and ensuring the organisation acts on what it surfaces

• Lead technical workstreams across a significant programme of change: managing dependencies, making prioritisation calls, and maintaining pace without compromising quality

• Commission, brief, and oversee contracted specialists, ensuring their outputs integrate coherently and leave the organisation with systems it can own and build on

• Be comfortable navigating a mixed technology stack. We use PHP and Symfony on the backend, Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend, and PostgreSQL as our database. You don't need to be expert in all of these, but you need to read an unfamiliar codebase and engage credibly with the engineers working across it

• Our in-house products sit alongside a landscape of third-party tools — including a CRM, communications platform, survey tools, and a knowledge management system. A key part of this role is exercising clear judgment about what we build, what we buy, and how we make the two work well together

Automation, Integration & AI Implementation

• Build and own the automation and integration layer that connects our tools, and user-facing products

• Make sound, evidence-based decisions about how automation is built and what it runs on, guided by the findings of the technical review

• Lead the responsible implementation of AI across our products and workflows, with clear judgment about where it creates genuine value and where it introduces risk

Data, Security & Governance

• Own the organisation's data estate: its architecture, quality, and governance

• Establish and embed rigorous data protection standards, including UK GDPR and the Children's Code, and maintain our Cyber Essentials Plus certification as our technology evolves

• Own application security across our products, including commissioning and acting on penetration testing and external security audits for in-house tools

• Ensure our in-house products meet WCAG accessibility standards

• Bring clear judgment to emerging AI governance obligations, translating developing regulation into principles the organisation can act on

Product & User Experience 

• Set direction for the build and ongoing evolution of our two core digital products, a mentor-facing platform and a pupil-facing application, ensuring both deliver a strong experience for our users

• Work closely with the Head of Product to ensure technology decisions are grounded in user need and serve our impact goals

Team Leadership 

• Lead and develop a small internal team, creating the conditions for good technical work and mission-driven focus to go hand in hand

• Manage contracted resource with clear accountability, ensuring quality and coherence across all delivery

• Build team capability over time: spot where skills need to grow and create the space for people to do their best work

Organisation contribution / champion

• You will act as a champion or otherwise contribute to the organisation's operations and mission. Specific responsibilities will vary according to areas of current relevance to the organisation and who is best placed to gain knowledge or share expertise.

You should apply if you have: 

• Belief in the value of our mission and want to align closely with our culture and values – putting our users first, moving with momentum towards excellence, feeling high ownership and acting with high agency and as one team.

• A track record of leading disciplined delivery, sequencing work carefully and holding the line on doing foundations before features

• Experience leading both permanent team members and contracted specialists, holding a high bar on quality across all of them

• Confidence navigating a mixed technology stack, able to read an unfamiliar codebase and engage credibly with the engineers working across it.

• Experience working closely enough with relational databases to have genuine intuition

• Hands-on experience building automations and experimenting with AI, with the judgment to know where each creates genuine value

• A track record of using AI tools to meaningfully extend what they and their team can deliver

• A deep understanding of data protection principles and the ability to apply them rigorously

• Experience working closely with non-technical stakeholders to deliver user-facing digital products

• A willingness to roll your sleeves up and get involved in the work alongside your team

• Genuine curiosity about emerging technology and what it can do for an organisation’s users

It is desirable that you have:

• Familiarity with CRMs and experience auditing complex systems landscapes

• A track record of shifting how people outside a technical team think about and use data and technology, with the communication skills to bring colleagues along at every level

You must have: 

• The right to work in the UK 

• Willingness to undergo an enhanced DBS check 

• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all students 

• Willingness to undertake in-person and online training and development, both of knowledge and of skills 

What we Offer

• Remote-first team: We all work remotely but meet once a week on Tuesdays at our London office.  

• Flexible Working: We work flexibly by default, and value outcomes not hours worked. All our team are empowered to organise their work in a way that balances their work and life. 

• Annual leave: 27 days (excluding bank holidays and the days between Christmas and New Year) increasing by 1 day after 2 years tenure up to 30 days pro rata for part-time 

• Pension: 11% employer only contribution (plus Life Assurance)  

• Work from Home: £500 (pro rata) working from home allowance to purchase equipment (in addition to the laptop we provide) 

• Health cash plan including employee assistance programme: Employees have access to a health cash plan which provides money back towards treatment, discounted fitness and wellbeing as well as access to a confidential employee assistance programme. 

• Cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes to help with travel arrangements

• Payroll giving: Payroll giving enables employees to sacrifice part of their salary in exchange for a donation to be made to charities of choice. This means the donation comes out prior to tax and can help maximise the amount the charity will receive.

• Books: Any employee can expense the purchase of any book that they believe will help make them better at their job. 

• Company off-sites: We organise three off-sites a year, each lasting two days (with an overnight stay). This is a chance for us to come together, do essential planning and celebrate our wins. 

Equal Opportunities 

We don’t want potential candidates to be put off if they believe they do not meet every one of the criteria as described in the person specification. We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may be one who comes from a less traditional background. We would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of our criteria. 

We are especially keen to receive applications from people whose background is under-represented in the mathematics profession. 

Axiom Maths is an equal opportunities employer and will not discriminate against any candidate on the basis of any characteristic protected by the Equality Act 2010. 

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Selection process

Stage 1 – Written application questions to assess your eligibility for the role

Stage 2 – Screening call with recruitment partner (20 mins)

Stage 3 – Telephone interview with Axiom Maths (20 mins)

Stage 4 – Technical interview (60 mins)

Stage 5 – Panel interview (90 mins)