Senior Product Manager

• Have complete ownership of a complex, strategic enterprise API involving multiple internal / external stakeholders and drive the Product strategy and execution for those APIs.
• Work with your team and stakeholders to align the strategic priorities, dependencies and roadmap across your product.
• Quickly build domain knowledge and assess new opportunities (gathering ideas, research, carrying out analysis, refining and prioritising new requirements).
• Steer sprint / release planning sessions in conjunction with engineering counterparts to effectively deliver maximum business value with the least effort.
• Identify and drive improvements in the way API performance and service levels are measured to ensure quality, reliability and security.
• Lead discovery work around minimum viable products (MVP) for new features, collaborating with delivery teams and internal / external stakeholders to prototype and validating MVPs.
• Help the delivery team in breaking down complex pieces of work and create epics and stories to break down large programmes into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster.
• Provide leadership and direction to cross-functional delivery teams on short-term tasks / near-term priorities.
• Provide support and coaching to Product Managers as well as peers.

Key requirements:

• Articulating a complex product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.
• Experience and understanding of agile techniques to deliver world beating products.
• Thinking at a conceptual level across a number of platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
• Experience managing work completed from external agencies to ensure the highest standards are met.
• The ability to influence without authority.
• Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to drive data-driven decisions.
• Product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical acumen.
• Technical competence to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested.

Nice to have:

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter.
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership.
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.