Location: London (3 days a week in the office)
Department: Product Development
Hours: Part-Time (3 days a week)
Employment: Contract
About YLD:
Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon and Porto.
About the role:
As a Product Manager consultant, you’ll be a part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, an effective communicator and a team-player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, define product strategies, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.
About You:
A YLD Product Manager Consultant is highly skilled, exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering delivery, and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others.
You’ll have the opportunity to effectively navigate the complex landscape of technology-driven solutions and deliver value to clients while driving business growth.
You have a real passion for problem-solving, you are an active learner and get excited by working collaboratively with those around you.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:
- Collaborate with Founders and Key Stakeholders on product vision, help set your team goals and guide the team to ensure product objectives are achieved;
- Translate the product vision and roadmap through to delivery, operation and continuous improvement;
- Facilitate and drive delivery and development processes using Agile methodologies and best practices;
- Develop a deep understanding of customer personas, jobs-to-be-done and product behaviours;
- Lead a cross-functional team to deliver innovative solutions, in line with roadmap and stakeholder expectations;
- Develop and prioritise a roadmap with the team along with a coherent product backlog that supports it;
- Manage the backlog to ensure that it is up-to-date, relevant, and actionable;
- Optimise the best technical solutions to avoid over- and under-engineering problems, making sure that the Development effort focuses on the right areas.
You’ll have:
- At least +5 years of Product Management experience
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders to define and prioritise product features based on business goals, stakeholder expectations and market;
- Experience tracking and monitoring features’ performance and functionality after launch to ensure continuous improvement and iterations;
- Experience working with early-stage start-ups and/or in environments of rapid change;
- Ability to identify, filter and prioritise stakeholders feedback;
- Experience interpreting and applying user research and analytics to product decisions;
- Clear communication skills to present product plans, benefits, and results to the wider team, including C-level execs, external vendors and partners;
- Experience in ensuring timely delivery of features, as per previously agreed roadmap.
You’ll be:
- Driven by performance measurement, analytical, with strong business acumen;
- Product oriented, with analytical mindset;
- Focused on quality and will know what it means to ship high-quality code;
- Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve yourself, the team and the product;
- Highly collaborative, diplomatic and emotionally intelligent, you’ll have the ability to listen and be open to others’ points of view;
- A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
- A genuine believer in diversity, fairness, and including everyone.
What you’ll get in return:
- The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business
Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:
- 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
- 2nd Interview with our Client Partner and one member of the Leadership team (60 mins)
We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:
- Growing every day
- Including everyone
- Relationships built on honesty and ethics
- Inspiring solutions
- Winning together
We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also offer a remote-first working environment, meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.
