Principle Product Manager- Discovery
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £110000 – £120000/annum + bonus
Are you looking to take your career to the next level?
With over 30 million users, across 20 countries, make your mark at one of the world's leading online digital platforms. With the use of Conversational AI and Machine Learning, they are at the forefront of revolutionising an entire industry. Everything they do has the 'user first' approach and consequently, the product teams have a high degree of customer obsession with a discovery-led approach for building better products.
My client has created a newly formed solutions-focused domain within one of their B2C product portfolios. With a large (and growing) investment and strategic direction, this domain will focus on harnessing AI, to understand what bigger opportunities there are in the market to gain a competitive edge when looking at the B2C & B2B experience as a whole.
This leadership position will be much more discovery-led and will become an expert in this domain, looking to develop features that will be disruptive to the industry.
This role will suit someone comfortable using analytics and research data to drive feature decisions and product improvements, which they can develop into a roadmap, keeping a balance between product discovery and product delivery, whilst maintaining a focus on innovation. This role requires someone unafraid to drive significant impact within their core product experience, through frequent and thoughtful experimentation.
You will be responsible for:
As a Principle Product Manager working in this newly created domain, you will have full ownership of the customer experience from ideation through to execution. You will focus on building data-driven features across both the Web and App that customers love.
The role will consist of:
* Deeply understanding the B2C & B2B users, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data on how they behave, how they respond to different experiences and where the largest gaps are in meeting their needs.
* Defining the product vision and driving the roadmap for the products
* Clarifying the ‘why’ and the ‘what’ for the teams – the business priorities, vision, the requirements, and the metrics to move
* Understanding the friction points in the user journey and working with user research to confirm and validate with prototypes, user feedback and experimentation.
* Working in close partnership with engineering and design teams to identify and manage trade-offs.
* Taking a data-driven approach for measuring the effectiveness of new features and establishing improvement areas
* Owning the prioritisation of your backlog and the discovery of strategic opportunities
* Building and maintaining a robust backlog for the engineering team and clarifying requirements during planning and as required. As the product moves from discovery to definition, working with user experience design and Go To Market and engineering teams
* Participating in agile ceremonies of sprint reviews with the engineering teams
* Supporting product operations around organisation-level reporting and roadshows for new feature launches.
* Ensure timely delivery of high-quality product features and optimisations and use data to validate impact and demonstrate that you can achieve high-impact goals with your feature
* Scaling, developing and mentoring the team
You might be a fit if you have;
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a quantitative or technical field or equivalent practical experience.
* 8+ years' experience working on technology-powered products as a PM.
* Demonstrated success in product management or related experience at fast-growing companies.
* Experience in B2C & B2B online Marketplace.
* Demonstrated experience in modern product discovery and delivery.
* Experience in end-to-end product development, where you have led the problem-solving.
* “O-1” product development- where you have successfully created entirely new impactful products/features/ solutions.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills with clear communication of complex topics
* Strong stakeholder management & influencing skills.
* Strong pitching and presenting skills to C-Suite for investment.
* A data-driven approach for building features and improving products.
* Proven experience in product incubation, building and scaling up high-traffic products.
* Proven ability to engage and collaborate with engineers, designers, and company leaders.
* Proven ability to utilise advanced analytical skills to enable effective collaboration with data scientists or data analysts.
* Strong leadership, mentoring and coaching skills
As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
Company Culture:
Although my client is an established business, they promote an agile start-up, intrapreneurial environment. They encourage their employees to challenge the status quo, always striving for better and enabling ideas and innovation across the board.
Equality, diversity, and fairness are a top priority, they are fully committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplace, where all their people can bring their whole selves to work, whether you are working from home, in their head office in London, or in one of their other UK hubs.
As an organisation, they have a strong set of values and believe that their people make the difference. They recognise hard work and talent by offering;
* Hybrid working + a competitive benefits package that supports employees and their families.
* Excellent ongoing training and development plans.
* A range of rewards and incentives (e.g luxury trips) to show just how much they value the unique skills and individual contributions of the people who work there
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