Senior Product Manager

📋 Description

• Own, prioritise, and execute the product vision and delivery roadmap for assigned tools and features
• Translate broad product strategy into operational plans, milestones, and release timescales
• Partner with Engineering, Product Marketing, and executive peers to commercialise innovative capabilities
• Empathise with MIS users and turn complex operational needs into problem statements, epics, and user stories
• Prioritise backlogs using data, customer usage, and market trends
• Lead sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming, and planning sessions with the Lead Engineer
• Balance product quality with on-time delivery schedules
• Drive continuous team process improvements by monitoring software pipeline performance
• Build prototypes independently to test and iterate solutions
• Partner with UX/UI and Frontend teams to deliver measurable usability improvements
• Ensure interface changes align with modern UI/UX standards
• Align product functionality with commercial outcomes and partner with Sales and Marketing on go-to-market plans
• Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success on releases, feature updates, customer feedback, and education
• Represent [REDACTED] at sales meetings, user forums, and national education conferences

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in a B2B or B2C SaaS product environment
• Proven ability to connect product strategy to commercial impact, balancing user value with business growth and retention
• Active use of generative AI tools, such as LLMs for user research synthesis, drafting specifications, data exploration, and prototyping
• Solid understanding of user experience design methodologies and interface best practices
• Hands-on experience with product management systems including AI-driven product development
• Practical experience prioritising work based on competing, complex priorities
• Proven track record running agile working practices and sprint ceremonies
• Strong communication skills, self-starter mindset, and complete ownership of outcomes
• Passion for improving the working lives of school staff and thriving in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of the UK school system, educational structures, or data frameworks (desirable)
• Experience coaching product managers, designers, or cross-functional team members (desirable)
• Experience working with user engagement analytics platforms to understand trends, patterns, and impact (desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• Dedicated wellbeing team and initiatives including mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training
• 32 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
• Comprehensive wellness benefit through [REDACTED], including 24/7 virtual GP, mental health support, counselling, and personalised health checks
• Private Dental Insurance with [REDACTED]
• Salary sacrifice Pension provided by [REDACTED]
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
• 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions
• Access to [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] financial wellbeing coaching
• Flexible working
• Social committees and team, office and company-wide events
• Dedicated professional development training budget, including CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships
• One paid volunteer day each year
• Referral voucher valued up to £200

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