Senior Product Manager (Europe) at NearForm

Job Description:

The Role

As a Senior Product Manager at NearForm, you’ll work with our clients and teams of engineers and designers to define, design, and build impactful digital products (e.g. apps/websites). This is an exciting and challenging role with the opportunity to define game-changing digital products for global business.

Experience

• Product Management experience in a technology consultancy or digital enterprise services company
• Hands-on delivery, development and/or solution architecture experience in a bespoke engineering/development enterprise environment is a must
• Experience working with design, development, DevOps and data experts to design and deliver custom digital solutions for enterprise clients as part of digital transformation
• Candidates should be as comfortable creating a senior level product strategy presentation as they are diving into the technical weeds with their Engineering counterparts.
• Ability to craft winning product strategies across industries (banking, telco, e-commerce, retail etc..)
• Ability to translate product strategy into a well-planned and prioritized product roadmap
• Experience delivering cross-platform (e.g. Web, iOS, and Android) digital products
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) required
• Proven history leading product workshops taking a group of stakeholders through a process to define the customer journey and deliver a tangible roadmap and backlog
• Ability to build a business case that justifies product investment, and defines product “success”
• Experience across a number of delivery methodologies (scrum, kanban, lean start-up, XP etc..)
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional, agile product development teams
• Demonstrated ability to transform business needs into actionable product requirements (e.g. user stories, acceptance criteria, etc.)
• Experience working with User Experience (UX) and design teams to create web and app prototypes through the wireframes and visual designs
• Understanding of product analytics and KPIs/OKRs, including test and learn and A/B testing methodologies
• Understanding of digital Marketing, acquisition and attribution (SEO, PPC, social etc.)

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• Owning the delivery of product strategy and roadmap
• Creation of product backlog (user stories etc.)
• Regular and constant reprioritisation of product backlog based on learnings/data/customer feedback
• Lead Discovery driven planning to explore new possibilities
• Ensure regular feedback from customers is being captured and built into the product roadmap and strategy
• Tracking key performance indicators of product and reporting these regularly in a clear and concise manner to senior project/programme management
• Obsess about our clients, and end-users, advocating with passion about their needs, opportunities, usability, performance, scalability, and security
• Lead usability and drive a consistent product feedback loop with end-users
• Lead the ideation, development, and launch of features
• Form and validate data-driven hypotheses for accelerating customer acquisition, retention, and revenue
• Perform quantitative and qualitative research to identify product opportunities and prioritize your roadmap
• Ship products in small iterations that allow us to test our hypotheses while delivering a quality customer experience
• Champion growth experiments, capturing insights and communicating them to the broader team
• Partner with engineering, design and other client and internal teams to build software collaboratively and inclusively
• Defining product success: Candidate must be able to drive towards key business driven metrics that measure the products we deliver with clients (ie Revenue, CSAT, product usage, etc.)

Benefits

• Work remotely; we have a genuine dedication to work/life balance.
• Work flexibly; we appreciate there are more important things in life than work so our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem!
• The Wellness Hub: We have a genuine commitment to fostering/improving NearFormers’ wellbeing; we offer resources and support, including a NearForm advice line which offers confidential support for anything from relationship issues to staying healthy. Please get in touch to discuss remuneration.

Although we are widely dispersed, NearFormers are a tightly-knit team. We trust one another and care about our colleagues. We all get together in person at our annual company retreat, of course when we’re not faced with a global pandemic! Building on our open-source origins, we promote the sharing of thoughts, knowledge and ideas.

Company Benefits

• Flexbile working
• Pension
• Healthcare
• Macbook
• Remote first
• Remote working allowance
• Training Allowance
• Bonus Scheme

Interview Process

• Initial HR chat (30 mins)
• Product Manager interview (1 HR)
• Hiring Manager intv (45 mins )