Product Designer

The Role - 

Product Manager will manage the end-to-end product lifecycle, which encompasses the conceiving, defining, delivering, monitoring, refining, and withdrawing of products from the market to maximize business results. The right candidate will be an experienced Product Manager who is able to demonstrate the balance between technical mastery and strong leadership skills.

Your responsibilities:

Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, which means working with various capabilities and business partners to:

Have a clear value proposition, strategy, and roadmap for the product/family of products

Ensure solutions are fit for purpose and address customer needs

Ensure delivery milestones are realistic and achieved

Have a robust and cost-effective support model in place

Perform governance and quality risk management activities including ownership of testing activities and accreditation inline with audit requirements.

Ensure product team is committed and adept, supporting recruitment and onboarding activities.

Deliver against finance metrics

Planning resourcing needs based on programmes of work that product lifecycle needs (e.g. design sprints, solution build, marketing)

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

Proven business acumen, showcasing a deep understanding of business strategy, commercial thinking, and portfolio prioritisation at a senior level.

Demonstrated strong leadership and people development skills, showcasing the ability to lead and develop teams effectively.

Exceptional self-motivation and teamwork skills, coupled with the ability to build momentum and pivot strategically when required.

Comprehensive technical mindset, with the ability to grasp and align complex technical concepts with overarching business priorities.

Proven experience in internal and external senior stakeholder management, with excellent verbal and written communication skills for articulating, selling, defending, and receiving feedback on work.

A history of building robust relationships with customers and teammates, displaying expertise in bringing people together to form motivated teams.

Keen focus on achieving business outcomes that drive value in an agile, iterative manner, prioritising pragmatism over perfection.

Exceptional ability to convene client and senior stakeholders at all levels, from C-Suite to process leads, SMEs, and analysts, facilitating outcomes that drive value throughout the product lifecycle.

Expertise in designing user-centric solutions that respond effectively to user needs.

Facilitate workshops and Subject matter experts/stakeholder interviews to capture and frame business challenges  

Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders 

Champion Agile practices, and empower your product teams to deliver solutions of the highest quality

Act as a bridge between engineering teams and stakeholder groups, ensuring technical design and build standards are met alongside meeting business and stakeholder requirements

Report on the agreed product OKRs and status