Senior Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take ownership, prioritize, and implement the product vision and delivery roadmap for designated tools and features.

• Convert overarching product strategy into actionable plans, milestones, and release timelines.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product Marketing, and executive partners to commercialize innovative features.

• Understand the needs of MIS users and transform complex operational requirements into problem statements, epics, and user stories.

• Prioritize backlogs based on data, customer usage, and market trends.

• Lead sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, and planning meetings alongside the Lead Engineer.

• Maintain a balance between product quality and timely delivery schedules.

• Promote continuous team process enhancements by assessing software pipeline performance.

• Independently create prototypes to test and refine solutions.

• Work with UX/UI and Frontend teams to achieve measurable improvements in usability.

• Ensure that interface modifications comply with contemporary UI/UX standards.

• Align product features with commercial objectives and collaborate with Sales and Marketing on go-to-market strategies.

• Coordinate with Sales and Customer Success regarding releases, feature updates, customer feedback, and training.

• Represent Arbor at sales meetings, user forums, and national education conferences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant experience in a B2B or B2C SaaS product setting.

• Demonstrated ability to link product strategy to commercial outcomes, balancing user value with business growth and retention.

• Active engagement with generative AI tools, such as LLMs, for user research synthesis, specification drafting, data exploration, and prototyping.

• Strong grasp of user experience design methodologies and interface best practices.

• Practical experience with product management systems, including AI-driven product development.

• Proven ability to prioritize tasks amid competing, complex priorities.

• Successful history of executing agile working practices and sprint ceremonies.

• Excellent communication skills, a self-starter attitude, and complete accountability for results.

• A commitment to enhancing the working lives of school staff while thriving in a dynamic environment.

• Familiarity with the UK school system, educational frameworks, or data structures (desirable).

• Experience mentoring product managers, designers, or cross-functional team members (desirable).

• Background in utilizing user engagement analytics platforms to identify trends, patterns, and impacts (desirable).

🏝️ Benefits

• Dedicated wellbeing team and initiatives, including mindfulness programs, lunch-and-learns, manager training, and mental health first aid training.

• 32 days of holiday in addition to Bank Holidays.

• Life Assurance that pays out at 3x the annual salary.

• Comprehensive wellness benefits via AIG Smart Health, offering 24/7 virtual GP services, mental health support, counseling, and personalized health checks.

• Private Dental Insurance through Bupa.

• Salary sacrifice Pension managed by Scottish Widows.

• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity leave (6 weeks full pay).

• Five complimentary return-to-work maternity coaching sessions.

• Access to Calm and Bippit for financial wellbeing coaching.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Social committees along with team, office, and company-wide events.

• Dedicated professional development training budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.

• One paid volunteer day each year.

• Referral voucher valued at up to £200.