Product Manager
Posted 2 weeks ago by Duval Associates
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Manchester, Greater Manchester
Summary: The Product Manager role is a hands-on position focused on driving the roadmap for a SaaS product within a fast-paced tech SME. The successful candidate will prioritize new opportunities, conduct user research, and collaborate with engineering and UX teams to enhance product features. This remote role requires a UK-based individual who can work UK hours and is expected to start ASAP. The position is a 12-month fixed-term contract with a negotiable salary based on experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of the product roadmap for an innovative WiFi/marketing product.
- Collaborate to research customer needs and identify opportunities for new developments and improvements.
- Manage custom and analytics development backlogs, working closely with CX and Sales teams.
- Drive the product roadmap, ensuring engineering teams focus on high-value work.
- Conduct continuous discovery through customer and user research.
- Break down work into smaller increments and make strategic decisions on what to build.
- Write user stories and initial acceptance criteria, managing the product backlog.
- Make data-driven decisions by identifying trends within the market and product usage.
- Work in a Product Trio alongside Development and UX for a seamless development process.
- Define feature success metrics and measure whether expected value is achieved.
- Communicate the product vision and roadmap across the business.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in previous product roles working with UX and agile teams.
- Ability to build positive relationships with stakeholders and display empathy.
- Experience conducting user research and testing.
- Knowledge of product discovery and hypothesis testing.
- Familiarity with product usage metrics (e.g., Pendo, Amplitude, Google Analytics, Mixpanel).
- Experience with epic prioritization and roadmaps.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort in presenting ideas and findings.
- Experience managing custom development with a focus on profitability is a bonus.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Product Manager – Remote – SaaS – SME Tech – Fast-Paced – Hands-On Role!
REMOTE. Must be UK based working UK hours. 12 month FTC.
Negotiable Salary (DoE) Superb benefits! 33 days holiday (Inc. BH’s), remote role with flexible working hours.
Brilliant Tech SME – fast-moving, high-growth, high-impact.
Hands-on – own the roadmap, shape success, drive results.
Start ASAP!
Shape the direction of an established product and prioritise new opportunities. SaaS product that helps customers gain valuable insight to how their spaces are used! Do you like to solve customer problems, do you have a curious mindset, and can you continue to evolve and grow product practices?
This is a fast-paced role for a mid-level product manager, we need a do-er, someone who is hands on and who takes action! Wonderful Duval client, great role! Amy @ Duval is recruiting!
The role:
- Take ownership of the roadmap for an innovative WiFi / marketing product. You will work collaboratively to research customer needs, surfacing opportunities for new developments as well as improvements to our existing features. You will take hold of our custom and analytics development backlogs, working closely with our CX and Sales teams to improve ROI.
- Drive the product roadmap, ensuring engineering teams focus on the highest value work.
- Conduct continuous discovery through customer and user research, ideating solutions to problems with development and UX.
- Break down work into smaller increments, making strategic decisions on what to build.
- Write user stories and initial acceptance criteria, managing the product backlog.
- Make data-driven decisions by identifying trends within the market and product usage.
- Work in a Product Trio alongside Development and UX for a seamless development process.
- Define feature success metrics and measure whether expected value is achieved.
- Communicate the product vision and roadmap across the business.
Who you need to be:
You will already have gained strong experience in previous product roles working with UX and agile teams in a commercial environment. You build positive relationships with your stakeholders, displaying high empathy for them as well as your users. You are pragmatic and action orientated. You continuously invest in your professional learning.
You have conducted user research and testing
Experience of product discovery and hypothesis testing
You’ve worked with product usage metrics, for example with Pendo / Amplitude / Google Analytics / mixpanel
You will have worked epic prioritisation / roadmaps
You demonstrate great communication skills and are comfortable presenting ideas, product demos and research findings.
Having managed custom development before with an eye on profitability is a bonus!
Great role, apply now or speak to Amy @ Duval!