Senior Product Manager, SAMpeople

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of, prioritize, and execute the product vision, long-term strategy, and delivery roadmap for designated user-facing tools and features.

• Convert product strategies into timelines, milestones, and operational plans while monitoring project constraints.

• Collaborate with the CTO, Lead Engineers, and executive colleagues to commercialize and deliver innovative capabilities.

• Transform the operational needs of school stakeholders into problem statements, epics, stories, and feature specifications.

• Prioritize backlogs, feature requests, and system updates utilizing customer usage data and the RICE framework.

• Generate technical tickets and prioritize engineering tasks in Jira, Figma, and Productboard.

• Facilitate sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming, and sprint planning alongside the Lead Engineer.

• Balance product quality with timely delivery and modify execution strategies as necessary.

• Own technical delivery outcomes and leverage pipeline performance data for process enhancements.

• Create wireframes and interface concepts to iterate on software solutions.

• Enhance user experience and platform usability with frontend and UX design teams.

• Ensure designs comply with contemporary corporate UI/UX standards.

• Work with Engineering, Design, Finance, and Legal to integrate statutory and regulatory educational requirements.

• Represent assigned feature areas to cross-functional teams and external institutional stakeholders.

• Identify and address legal, financial, and technical delivery risks.

• Connect product functionality to revenue and upselling objectives.

• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing on product marketing and go-to-market strategies.

• Train Sales and Customer Success teams on product functionality, adjustments, and releases.

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

• Utilize customer usage statistics and data-driven insights to guide organizational goals.

• Cultivate technical and operational knowledge of the UK school system.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant professional experience in product development within a B2B or B2C SaaS business environment.

• Strong, proven understanding of UX/UI design methodologies.

• Demonstrated ability to expand a product's reach and grow its user base.

• Proficient with Jira, Figma, Productboard, and Slite.

• Practical experience with data-driven prioritization frameworks, particularly RICE.

• Proven experience collaborating with Product Marketing teams on go-to-market initiatives.

• Established record of implementing, managing, and participating in structured agile practices and sprint ceremonies.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in British English.

• Capable of working independently, taking ownership of outcomes, and adapting strategies dynamically.

• Proven ability to deliver results with distributed cross-functional teams.

• Passionate about improving the working lives of school stakeholders and working in a scaling organization.

• Experience managing and developing an HR/HRIS product is highly beneficial.

• Familiarity with the UK school system, MAT structures, and statutory educational data frameworks is desirable.

• Experience analyzing user engagement data in product analytics software such as Mixpanel, Pendo, or Gainsight is desirable.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• 32 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave plus 7 company-wide days).

• Life Assurance provided at 3x annual salary.

• AIG Smart Health wellness benefit featuring 24/7 virtual GP, mental health support, counseling, and personalized health checks.

• Private Dental Insurance through Bupa.

• Salary sacrifice Pension plan managed by Scottish Widows.

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

• Enhanced paternity leave (6 weeks full pay).

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

• Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching.

• Flexible working arrangements.

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

• Dedicated professional development training budget.

• One paid volunteer day each year.

• Dog-friendly office environment.

• Referral voucher worth up to £200.