Senior Product Manager

The role

You will take responsibility for a product area and work with designers, engineers and colleagues to understand problems and find solutions. You will use continuous discovery and delivery to shape product direction and make decisions based on evidence.

What you will do

• Understand the problem and user needs
• Shape product direction and translate objectives into outcomes
• Practise continuous discovery with design and engineering
• Turn uncertainty into learning through experiments
• Make product decisions using evidence and impact
• Measure success using qualitative and quantitative evidence
• Work iteratively in small steps
• Communicate product thinking and trade-offs
• Create strong feedback loops
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team

Required qualifications

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience
• Using creative problem solving to build software solutions
• 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
• Experience making product decisions using user evidence, data, and constraints
• Experience communicating product thinking to a wide range of people
• Experience working collaboratively with people outside the immediate product team

Nice to have

• Working in an organisation going through significant product, digital or organisational transformation
• Working in complex service environments involving changes to technology, operations, policy or organisational 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 promote inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing.