Senior Product Manager - Remote (UK) or Hybrid

Job Description

Job; Senior Product Manager - Remote (UK) or HybridThis company is a pioneering venture builder. They work with commercially minded, non-technical founders to start tech companies, launch new products, and digitise industries. Their product managers, scrum masters, designers and developers work as the foundersin-house team to pull together all the people they need to bring their ideas to life! In the last 6 years, theyve helped start 30++ new companies and launched 30+. They help their founders (how they refer to their clients) with balancing commercial, product,and technology considerations, and to find investment to grow their companies.Overview;As part of their growth, theyre looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to join their team. Reporting to their amazing Product and Delivery Director, as their Senior Product Manager youll be responsible for validating and transforming a foundersbusiness idea into a fully functioning business - this could be building an MVP from scratch or digitising an existing business. This is an exciting opportunity in which youll launch the businesses of the future and work with entrepreneurial founders andtalented tech teams! Furthermore, youll act as part of their technical co-founding team, taking founders on a journey, taking a vision from an idea to a live software product. Youll also have the opportunity to work across the full business lifecycle, spanningidea validation, product discovery, MVP definition & scoping, launch, scale-up and exit. This role is perfect for someone who likes variety and can handle working on multiple products concurrently, likes to get stuck in, and enjoys wearing multiple hats.The role;

• By using product management concepts, youll rapidly assess a situation and use your experience to create a plan to make progress. Youll then plan and execute a software product build (scoping, user story mapping and prioritisation).
• Youll lead in user research and testing to gather requirements and validate the potential solution(s).
• Partnering with their product designer, youll use UX principles to create wireframes to describe the user journey and create a prototype that can be taken into a full UI design.
• Typical projects could be timeboxed discoveries to validate an idea, 3-month MVPs which are built to test a concept and create a foundation for iteration, or testing, learning, and evolving an existing business that needs digitalsing or optimising.
• Through exposure to their sales cycle, youll have the opportunity to speak with multiple potential start-up founders. Acting in a consultant pre-sales capacity, youll advise founders on how to take their idea to market using Lean Startup principles. Thisis a fantastic way to expand your experience and develop strategic and board level thinking.
• As part of pre-sales engagements, youll work with new business and existing account salespeople to run discovery workshops, work on commercial pricing and help with proposal writing for prospects/customers.
• Youll act as a representative of their team, working with the founder to ensure quality is delivered at all times.
• Through great communication skills and a good technical understanding, youll effectively translate business and product requirements into a roadmap and use artefacts like User Stories to connect your strategy with your development team.
• Youll create roadmaps that articulate the product strategy clearly to non-technical founders. Youll use these roadmaps to show uncertainty, risk, and learning, plus how they are navigated by iterative product releases. High level roadmaps will be translatedinto actionable batches of work for engineering and design teams to provide solutions for in trackable stages.

About you;

• Youve significant client-facing product management experience, involving the use of UX principles/creating wireframes, creating and owning a product roadmap or strategy, as well as completing user research/testing and using user story mapping to understandscope etc.
• Youve strong experience in scoping and defining products/features and in creating sprint plans, as well as knowledge of validation techniques and when to apply them.
• Youve experience of Kanban development boards and in leading a team of developers and designers towards defined product goals.
• Youve experience working in a consultancy or for start-ups/new products, building software products from the ground up/producing MVPs.
• Youre comfortable using lean, agile, and software development lifecycle frameworks, as well as good knowledge of analytical tools and how they can be used to track and assess performance.
• Youre comfortable with tools such as Figma/Balsamiq, Trello (or similar), Typeform, Webflow (or similar), Analytics tools: Mixpanel, GoogleAnalytics, GoogleTagManger, Hotjar, Heroku, Google Sheets, Zapier etc.
• Youre passionate about the technology/SaaS sector.

Other Stuff;

• £s; fully DoE up to £70k
• Benefits; 25 days holiday, statutory pension, equity scheme
• Location; remote or hybrid working is fine - whilst you can be based anywhere (in the UK), youll need to be able to get to their London Old Street office roughly once a month (or so). Train/travel tickets will be fully reimbursed.

• Interested Please send your (Word doc) CV,
• Please only apply if you already have a UK NI number & the ability to work in the UK indefinitely & without sponsorship
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