Product Manager

At CV-Library, we have a simple vision: to help the world to work and we are looking for exceptional and talented people to help us realise this vision in both UK and overseas markets.

We are in a period of accelerated growth, following a year of key strategic acquisitions and significant investment across all parts of the business from Tech and Data to People and HR, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us or a better place to grow your career!

The Role

We are now looking for a Product Manager to join our growing product team! This role will be responsible for curating the product roadmap based on insights from customers, the business and technology. They own the understanding of value in the roadmap and are accountable for the commercial success of the product. They engage regularly with users to understand their needs and pain points, map out the competitive landscape to identify opportunity and threats, while working with stakeholders across the business to synthesise and translate complex business needs to problem statements that can be solved by the team. The own prioritising that roadmap based on value delivery, ensuring the roadmap remains responsive to stimulus from both within and without. They also work closely with product design, data, product owners and the engineering team, to ensure that the solutions identified meet the desired objectives, can be measured and are shipped as quality outcomes.

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 evolve this understanding through discovery and research
• Collaborate across the business with stakeholders, engineering and other product team members to drive action throughout the organisation to get products to market that solve 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

Essential:

• 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 discover methodologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in translating business needs into a 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 and 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

Desirable:

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

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.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.