Product Manager

Horwich Full-Time No home office possible

This range is provided by GBV Ltd. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

I am looking to recruit a Product Manager for my client based near Horwich/Chorley on a Remote Basis (with 1-2 times per month in the office and occasional client site visits).

I am looking for an experienced product manager to join the team to help our clients with their efficiency.

I’m looking for someone to own a key product in our portfolio and to help the business become more product-driven.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Work with the Product team to identify features required in the product. Help in determining acceptance criteria and tests, cost/value metrics to inform prioritisation, and dependencies to inform planning and roadmaps.
Determine the detailed functionality required by system users to implement the feature. Express this as user stories to support Agile development methodology (Scrum, Kanban, XP).
Communicate required functionality to interactive designers, developers, and testers and accept feedback as to feasibility and alternative approaches, facilitating planning of the work required to implement.
Respond to day-to-day queries on specifications, clarifying with peers and product management/customers as needed to provide the correct answers.
Provide input into the severity of defects so that they may be scheduled for resolution in line with the product quality plan.
Accept tested incremental changes from the development team.
Demonstrate completed features to product management and the wider business. Obtain feature acceptance and support transition to operation.
Prepare documentation and training material to support feature release, working with documentation, training, and support specialists as required.
Advocate the product with our customer and user base, eliciting feedback and collating requests and ideas for further feature development and prioritising these with product management.
Understand and catalogue the personas that represent our user and stakeholder base.
Maintain a domain glossary of applicable terminology.
Keep abreast of modern product design practices such as Lean UX, Design Thinking, etc.

KEY SKILLS

Strong experience as a Product Manager in software product development.
Familiarity with user stories used as a means of specification and work management in Agile software development.
Exposure to Continuous Exploration, Design Thinking, or Lean UX to support iterative software development.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues, customers, and end users.
Business process modelling.

OTHER SKILLS / EXPERIENCE DESIRED

Specifying changes to web-based software-as-a-service products, including working with UX/UI designers.
Behaviour-driven development by writing acceptance criteria in Gherkin syntax.

The role is paying up to £60k with benefits.