Senior Digital Product Manager - 18 Month FTC

We are BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world. We work with ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited, and high growth businesses that fuel the economy, directly advising the owners and management teams that lead them.

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, explore, and implement new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax, and business consulting. They also maintain the technology that keeps us advancing. In an IT role at BDO, you'll become part of a team that acts as the backbone for our business. We provide training and support to help you achieve your goals.

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice, which grows from a thorough understanding of their business. This understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You will be comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO's partners. You will be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

As a Digital Product Manager at BDO, you will manage a diverse portfolio of digital products, collaborating closely with Business Product Owners and overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from inception to delivery, as well as ongoing improvements and enhancements. Our digital products range from client-facing, AI-driven services to internal tools impacting the daily work of over 10,000 employees.

You will be part of the Innovation and Digital function, a substantial investment by BDO to lead the future of technology change by introducing new digital products and services. Our team includes designers, coders, and innovation managers, working on projects from generative AI products to automation and e-commerce solutions. We collaborate with partners such as Microsoft and other leading technology providers, and our digital products are used by employees, clients, audited entities, suppliers, regulators, and other BDO firms worldwide.

We seek individuals who have a deep understanding of the product management role and are eager to apply their expertise in supporting our firm's digital journey. If you are passionate about digital technology, data, AI, and emerging technologies, you will fit right in.

The ideal candidate is a highly self-motivated and driven Product Manager with a passion for service and quality. You will need plenty of energy, self-confidence, and a desire to be a product evangelist. Understanding the benefits of adopting a product-led, agile delivery approach and being able to convey this to other areas of our firm is essential.

In this busy and rewarding role, you will also:

• Ensure the smooth day-to-day operation, direction, and value of the digital products under your ownership.
• Lead an internal product team to deliver significant business outcomes.
• Facilitate communication between Business Product Owners, Development Engineers, and User Experience specialists to maximise value for customers and end-users.
• Promote best practice approaches to product management through education and evangelism.
• Become an end-to-end expert on the products you manage, including organisational and technological aspects.
• Manage and maintain a product backlog, evaluating and prioritising product opportunities.
• Be an exceptional communicator, facilitator, and decision-maker, ensuring stakeholder alignment and successful outcomes at all stages of product delivery.
• Build relationships across the firm and work towards the overall benefit of our products' end-users and the firm.

You will have:

• Proven success as a Digital Product Manager.
• Prior experience working in an Agile Delivery team, leading or participating in delivery rituals such as daily scrums, retrospectives, backlog grooming, and prioritisation.
• Experience using a work management toolset such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
• Skills in carrying out product and feature discovery, capturing requirements, and creating user stories.

At BDO, we recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We are committed to agile working, offering every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand.

We will help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, with programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values, and we are proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we will support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you will always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, which is why we have invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO's people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you will never stop learning at BDO.

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we are always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK, thousands of unique minds come together to help the companies we work with achieve their ambitions.

We have a clear purpose and are confident in our future, adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity, and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, believing in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.