Product Manager

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Job description

CV-Library is a leading job board in the UK, attracting over 10 million monthly visits and serving more than 10,000 hiring clients. With exciting growth across our platforms, we are looking to enhance our dynamic Product and Technology teams. As a result, we are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Product Manager to join our thriving organisation.

As Product Manager you will be responsible for curating the product roadmap based on insights from customers, the business and technology. You will regularly engage with users to understand their needs and pain points, map out the competitive landscape to identify opportunities and threats, while working with stakeholders across the business to synthesis and translate complex business needs to problem statements that can be solved by the team.

Your role will be pivotal, focusing on enhancing our product features, engaging with cross-functional teams, and aligning our product strategies with customer needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate the business strategy and associated measures of success into an executable product strategy and roadmap.
• Curate and own the product roadmap, from channels of insight, problem statements and initiatives, through to priority and sequence of value delivery.
• Learn about the customer, competitors and market to ensure a robust understanding of the landscape. And continuously evolves this understanding through discovery and research.
• Collaborate across the business with stakeholders, engineering and other product team members to drive action throughout the organization to get products to market that solve customer problems in ways that work for the business.
• Work closely with the marketing function to plan and carry out product launches through robust GTM activities that deliver on engaging customers and growing the product.
• Understand, track and identify interventions to improve key success metrics related to customer engagement, behaviour and ultimately the product commercial success.
• Work collaboratively with business stakeholders to capture insight, share progress and create buy-in to the product strategy and direction.
• Document the product strategy, guiding policies, critical actions and activities in a meaningful way that provides context for the business and wider product team, and development teams. Document key insights for initiatives on the roadmap, including objectives, success criteria, customer insight and key solution requirements.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge and experience of lean, agile scrum or kanban methodology and practices.
• Experience working on large cross-functional platform products.
• Strong business, market and customer analysis skills.
• In depth knowledge of the product lifecycle, including up front discovery methodologies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in translating business needs into product roadmap objectives.
• Ability to take ownership and make decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven experience as a Product Manager in a similar agile fast-paced environment.
• Experience being both data & customer driven in decision-making and prioritisation, utilising available data and insight from customers and competitors.
• Somebody who's comfortable getting into a detailed technical discussion with our team of software developers.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous situations and maintain velocity by removing blockers.
• Experience working with a varied set of cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience working in an experimentation environment, running A/B or MVT activities.

Desirables

• Experience with customer research methodologies
• Experience with product and value-led methodologies
• JIRA & Confluence experience.

Benefits

At CV-Library, we are a team. We welcome the best talent to work for us, irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability (visible or non-visible).

We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements.

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