Senior Product Manager - 12 Month FTC

The role

A Senior Product Manager will take responsibility for a product area and work with designers, engineers and colleagues to solve product problems. You will use continuous discovery and delivery to understand user needs and help the team learn through experimentation.

What you will do

• Build a deep understanding of users, their needs and behaviours
• Shape product direction and translate objectives into outcomes and priorities
• Practise continuous discovery with design and engineering
• Frame hypotheses and design experiments to turn uncertainty into learning
• Make product decisions by weighing evidence, impact, effort, risk and opportunity
• Define useful measures of success using qualitative and quantitative evidence
• Work iteratively to deliver in small steps
• Communicate product thinking, evidence and trade-offs to various stakeholders
• Create strong feedback loops through conversations, demos and reviews
• Work collaboratively to enable specialists to contribute to product decisions

Required qualifications

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience
• At least three years' experience working as a Product Manager in a multidisciplinary digital product team
• Experience using product discovery alongside delivery
• Experience working with significant uncertainty or ambiguity
• Experience taking complex problems and turning them into clear priorities and outcomes
• Experience making product decisions using user evidence, data, goals and constraints
• Experience communicating product thinking clearly to a wide range of people
• Experience working collaboratively with people outside the immediate product team

Nice to have

• Experience working in an organisation going through significant product, digital or organisational transformation
• Experience working in complex service environments involving changes to technology, operations, policy or processes
• Helping teams move towards more iterative, outcome-focused or evidence-led ways of working
• Working in a mission-led, research, publishing, education, scientific or other knowledge-based organisation
• Experience of scholarly publishing

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Personal accident insurance
• Pension with up to 10% employer match
• 25 days holidays
• Market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
• Birthday and three winter holidays days off
• 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year
• Fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office

Before you apply

• Applications will be accepted from candidates based in the UK

About the company

PLOS is a nonprofit Open Access publisher with an ambitious mission to help transform research communication. The organization works to remove barriers and promote inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing.