Senior Product Manager

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

📋 Description

• Assume responsibility for a specific product area

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of users, their needs, behaviors, and the organizational, operational, and technical contexts

• Define the product's vision, outcomes, and priorities

• Collaborate with design, engineering, and other team members on ongoing discovery efforts

• Identify assumptions and validate ideas through user engagement and data analysis

• Formulate hypotheses and design experiments

• Utilize evidence, impact, effort, risk, and opportunity to inform product decisions

• Establish success metrics and assess both qualitative and quantitative data

• Support teams in delivering iteratively in manageable increments and adapt based on insights gained

• Articulate problems, evidence, options, trade-offs, and learnings

• Foster feedback loops through discussions, demonstrations, and reviews

• Empower designers, engineers, and specialists to engage in product decision-making

• Grasp broader services, processes, systems, and teams beyond the product interface

• Partner with PLOS Product, Digital, and colleagues from across the organization

• Occasional travel, both national and international, may be necessary

⛳️ Requirements

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience

• Proven experience in leveraging creative problem-solving to develop software solutions

• Background as a Product Manager within a multidisciplinary digital product team

• Experience working closely with design, engineering, research, and delivery teams

• Familiarity with product discovery processes alongside delivery, including user research, data analysis, experimentation, and hypothesis validation

• Ability to navigate significant uncertainty or ambiguity

• Skill in transforming complex challenges into clear priorities, outcomes, and actionable steps

• Experience making product decisions informed by user evidence, data, organizational objectives, technical limitations, and product intuition

• Proficient in communicating product strategies effectively to a diverse audience

• Experience collaborating with individuals outside the immediate product team

• Flexibility to work across different time zones, with occasional national or international travel required

🏝️ Benefits

• Private medical insurance

• Life assurance

• Income protection

• Personal accident insurance

• Pension plan with up to 10% employer contribution

• 25 days of vacation

• Competitive maternity and paternity leave

• Birthday and three winter holidays off

• Two days of paid time off for volunteering each year

• Fully remote work environment, with a stipend provided upon joining for home office setup