Apadmi is a fast growing European digital products company that specialises in mobile.
If you’ve ever ordered a Domino’s pizza from their mobile app, or used your Co-op membership app, or an Argos card then you’ve sampled our work. We create brilliant digital experiences that drive new value for some of the biggest brands in Europe. Our current client list includes Argos, Greene King, Sykes Cottages, Curry’s, TalkTalk, BBC, Co-op, Chelsea FC, Vodafone, Charles Stanley, Domino’s and more.
We are 260+ people, headquartered in Manchester with further offices in Edinburgh and Amsterdam. We are a team of strategists, product owners, designers, engineers and marketers who have been awarded for our complex solutions to business challenges. An award we are most proud of is our place on The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work For list in 2023.
The Opportunity
As part of our growth into a digital product company, we are seeking a Principal Product Manager to join our Product Leadership Team.
This role involves creating our partner’s product strategies and ensuring we deliver the most value we can for them and their users, so they reach their goals.
What a typical week might look like
- Creating product strategies for clients where we deliver high value to the market regularly
- Driving product development and the product roadmap with the delivery squads
- Stay informed about changes in industries, and support the team in developing and embed the changes
- Support team members to ensure they have the necessary guidance and resources to deliver projects at a high standard and advance in their careers
- Operate in a supporting, coaching and facilitative role, helping teams solve their own problems while occasionally taking a hands-on approach to critical issues
- Training and growing the product team based on objectives for the year
- Growing and building our in-house product training for Product Graduates and Product Owners
Who you will be supporting
Our People
- Line-managing a quad of product people, supporting them to develop their careers and coaching them to enhance their skills and deliver results
- Understanding the skill gaps within the squads and contributing to training, hiring and onboarding to fill the gaps
- Supporting our L&D team in curating and delivering content to the product squads and business
Our Clients
- Supporting the sales process, both early client engagement and ongoing product estimation
- Proving consulting to our teams and clients to achieve their strategy, business objectives and product delivery
- Understanding the needs of the client and their product, as well as your product colleagues’ goals and preferences to make sure the best team is delivering for the clients
- Helping the delivery of a product through strong product leadership and hands-on support
Our Processes
- Keeping up to date with the industry and technology developments, and understanding how this impacts our products and the development of the team
- Shaping our product processes through product reviews, knowledge-sharing and introduction to new ways of achieving the team’s goals
You’ll be great for this if
- You have experience in managing a team of product people
- Ability to coach, motivate and performance manage your team to deliver impactful results
- You value developing and nurturing talent in your team
- You have delivered multi-products, from ideation to launch and beyond
- You have a strong background in consumer mobile apps and/or retail & loyalty product management experience
- You are skilled in stakeholder management, both internal and client-side, with the understanding of the value of keeping wider stakeholders aligned
- You are delivery-orientated. You understand that technology products are to serve business needs, which involves the balance of cost, scope, time and quality
What we’re offering
As well as all the standard stuff you’ll get at Apadmi (think holidays, pension, the usual benefits), we have a collaborative community which offers a range of opportunities and rewards for our people.
We also trust our people to work in a way that supports their productivity, so we can offer a hybrid way of working which you are in control of. If it’s good for you, then it’s good for us, so let’s chat about what works during the interview process.
