Job description
Product Manager
Location: EMEA, MANCHESTER, UK
Model: Hybrid, 3 days at customer office, address to be confirmed
What You Will Bring to the Team
At Wizeline we are looking for a Product Manager Consultant to join our growing practice. Our Product and Platform Development practice, with emphasis on Customer Experience, DevOps principles, and Cloud-Native technologies, brings the Product Manager role as a key contributor to our customers’ success.
The Product Manager is a client-facing role, and responsible for the intersection between UX, Business, and Technology. The PM is tasked with engaging with clients to gain an understanding of the business, the user groups, and needed outcomes, maximizing the value delivered through continuous discovery and delivery of business value.
Your Day-to-Day Activities
As a Product Management Consultant at Wizeline, you will provide leadership and support through the following activities:
- Developing product strategy, enabling a transition from project thinking to continuous delivery of customer value.
- Developing product roadmap including key milestones.
- Prioritize and evaluate features.
- Design solution: develop use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria, along with UX Design Leads
- Align stakeholders to a shared understanding of the product’s vision, including market, problem, persona, stakeholders, and goals.
- Strategic Thinking: ability to lead to answers for the increasingly large problem and product areas, with corresponding internal thought leadership.
- Details & Quality: driving results and catching mistakes across the evolving scope.
- Collaboration: facilitating and getting things done with others within and across teams.
- Communication: clear written and oral communication to larger and higher stakes audiences.
- Lean / Agile Principles: evangelize and foster Lean/Agile principles to reduce waste and drive continuous development.
- Data and Experimentation: help shift client focus from outputs to outcomes and optimize value through rapid build/measure/learn cycles.
- Experience in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) principles for product definition, process optimization, or the creation of new value propositions, including understanding how AI can solve business problems and enhance user experience
Are You a Fit?
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- 7+ years of product management experience
- Demonstrated ability to lead product strategy, product definition, and product discovery through various phases of the product lifecycle, driving business outcomes and customer value.
- BA/BS degree in Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- Experienced product leader who blends strong technical, business, and people skills with a refined product sense and strong empathy for users
- Experience working with UX Designers, Software Engineers, and multidisciplinary teams, on a collaborative process to define product strategy and roadmap
- A clear understanding of software development lifecycle
- Outgoing and positive thinking about possibilities, where others see problems you see challenges.
- Can-Do attitude who can champion a product vision, strategy, and roadmap, from conception to launch.
- Strong team player who supports their team in all regards and embraces ownership, accountability, and responsibility for the team’s work
- Process-thinker who can continuously reinvent and improve how we do things
- Storyteller with strong English skills who communicates effectively and inspires with your vision
