Product Manager - Test Your Innovation

Test Your Innovation | Product Manager

Location: London (Hybrid)

Salary: £60,000

Date Posted: 16 January 2025

In the words of one of our senior clients recently…

“Market Research has changed more in the past 3 years, than in the previous 40”

About System1.

System1 is the leading global Marketing decision making platform. We help brands measure and understand whether their marketing works. Predictive technology is our passion, but our focus is very much human. We understand the power of emotion and capture the nuances of human behaviour to power data-driven decisions. We want to drive change and rewire behaviours, envisioning a world where our pioneering methodologies are embedded in the workflows of every marketing decision-maker. We are also who we are because of our people. So, if you share our enthusiasm, are ambitious, creative, and highly motivated, then we’d love to hear from you! Join the System1 team to continue to help us remove the guesswork for marketeers everywhere, as well as secure our growth, ambition, and success.

To learn more about us, please visit System1 Group | Create with Confidence

Becoming part of the team

With 10 Global Offices and over 150 employees, System1 is a fast-changing business. With exceptional IP, technological advantage and a world-class team we are very well positioned for rapid growth. Central to this is our people. We need to hire the right people, into the right roles, at the right time.

• Are you up for being a part of the Product team to develop our ‘innovation’ product suite?
• Are you excited by working with leading edge IP and products that can make a huge impact on our customers’ businesses?
• Do you relish the role of being the disruptor in a category and rise to the challenge of stretching goals?
• Are you motivated to bring your product management experience to help and inspire others?

About The Role

We are looking for a talented and experienced Product Manager to join our small but growing Product team, where you will be part of System1’s transformation from a research consultancy to a global provider of technology-based data & insights.

What will you be doing?

Your role will grow and change over time, and you will have input into these changes. Current responsibilities include:

• Product Manager for our Test Your Innovation suite of products, which where System1’s original product foundation.
• Develop a deep understanding of this product suite and become the fountain of product knowledge for the business.
• Deliver on the product strategy and vision, in alignment with System1’s goals, working close with the Chief Product Officer and Innovation MD.
• Identify customer needs, spot market trends and understand the competitor landscape, drawing insights to inform product development.
• Collect and analyse customer feedback to understand pain points and ensure the product continues to meet their changing needs & exceed their expectations.
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap, with clear prioritisation, understanding how this works against our other core products in Advertising and Brand.
• Fully understand and write up the business requirements, with context, and effectively communicate these to IT & UX colleagues.
• Manage new launches, liaising with Head of Training on materials, and with Head of Marketing on sales collateral and campaign activities.
• Support problem resolution, resolve issues and quickly acting on feedback.

You need to be this kind of person:

• That is passionate about our customer and put their needs at the heart of all decision making.
• That is passionate about helping our clients to innovate, by developing market winning products, and how current suite can be improved.
• That can see the bigger picture, but with a strong attention to detail, organised and impeccable time management.
• That is curious and a lifelong learner. You show integrity with colleagues, clients, and partners.
• That enjoys collaboration and exposure to a wide variety of stakeholders, comfortable speaking with all departments at all seniorities.
• Enjoys working across teams but equally happy working independently.

You need to have the following experience:

• Strong Product Management background, comfortable bringing your experience into a new but growing team.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management.
• Worked closely with our customers, engineering, design, marketing and sales teams to bring successful products to market.
• Good technical understanding (but no need to be able to code).
• Experience working client side in innovation research, or with an innovation background is preferable.
• Expert in the core Microsoft Office suite, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with product management & design tools an advantage (e.g. JIRA, DevOps, Adobe XD, Figma).
• Excellent communication skills, ability to facilitate and co-ordinate alignment amount multiple teams for smooth execution.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and bonus scheme, including health insurance, and pension. Our people are important to us, and we understand that each person has a life outside of work and we therefore offer flexible working arrangements (Hybrid) aiming to suit your needs. We also offer several wellbeing resources such as “de-clutter” afternoons for your personal and professional needs.

We encourage learning and offer education reimbursement opportunities.

We have recognition schemes, and regular socials, including summer and winter parties!

We welcome applicants from all diverse communities and encourage our candidates to ask us about reasonable adjustments that we may be able to make to support through our recruitment process and while in post.