Product Manager - Search in London

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen. We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market.

The Role: We are on a mission to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month and our website and apps receive over 140 million visits per month. Joining the Search Team in Rightmove, you’ll make this mission possible by giving consumers confidence to make their move through best-in-class property search capabilities. This team looks after our flagship consumer experience, Search, and forms a fundamental part of why consumers love our brand. We want to keep building on these fundamentals and also make sure that we move with consumer behaviour in property search by being on the forefront of innovation.

The Product Development team at Rightmove plays a pivotal role in delivering the overall consumer and customer digital experience underpinning the Rightmove business. We recognise that to deliver the best products and features for our customers and consumers we need to work together effectively as a healthy, high performing team. We work collaboratively across a mix of product and centralised teams, together working towards Rightmove’s strategy. The Product Manager role reports into a Senior Product Manager in our Consumer Domain, responsible for our Explore & Find pillars. This is a key role managing our core proposition, search, which is central to the business. The successful individual will need to be comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy.

A Typical Week as a Product Manager Might Involve:

• Own and monitor the products and functionality across the search experience, measured against the objectives and KPIs you define.
• Create and validate business cases that underpin the product/initiative, with clear definition of opportunity, costs, and benefit.
• Proactively contribute to initiatives that aim to improve our customer or consumer experience, both identifying your own contribution and supporting others in theirs.
• Initiate and/or undertake any analysis to highlight any impacts to systems or business processes.
• Take an active role in the experience discovery of initiatives and products, working closely with Product Designers and Researchers to define the approach.
• Collaborate with user experience specialists and visual designers to re-work existing experiences, as well as creating new ones.
• Spend time understanding what motivates our users and ensuring they are up to date with industry insights.
• Generate unique ideas, resourceful in identifying opportunities, and encourages innovation within the team.
• Work with engineers and technical architects to understand technology limitations, recommendations and development options.
• Accountable for requirements definition and delivery of solutions across your product/initiatives.
• Maintain a backlog of improvements for your area, clearly describing how they support our overall business goals and work with the Senior Product Manager & Head of Product to prioritise these alongside the wider priorities for the domain and product function.
• Handle inbound requests coming to this central product area by triaging and responding to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Build relationships across different domains and functions of the business to identify impactful opportunities that span more than the Search product.
• Work with Senior Product Manager & the Head of Product to help shape the strategic direction, vision and objectives for Search based on clear rational, analysis and insights.

We are looking for someone who:

• Can lead product discovery, culminating in clear recommendations and, where relevant, the best approaches for delivery.
• Operates with autonomy and influence, effectively managing relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on goals.
• Has experience in the successful end-to-end delivery of software products in a technology-led company.
• Takes responsibility for a product and its delivery and monitoring with an autonomous delivery team.
• Makes data informed decisions, leveraging quantitative and qualitative insights.
• Is passionate about delivering quality experience and software to end users.
• Has excellent organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to multitask and make tough calls.
• Effectively manages relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, alignment on product goals, and collaboration throughout the product lifecycle.
• Sets and measures clear, realistic and timely goals.
• Has experience with a Search product at scale or another consumer-facing product at a similar scale to Rightmove.
• Builds a deep understanding of how an organisation is run, both commercially and operationally.
• Actively encourages contributions from all those around them recognising the value of team members input when solving problems.
• Thinks long term, and will drive the vision for the product their team is working on.
• Has found the agile philosophy to be second nature.
• Comfortable describing the technical implementation of their product.
• Has a desire to learn and improve themselves and the processes within the team.
• Is equally comfortable negotiating the roadmap with product leaders, presenting to senior leadership, or discussing implementation with our engineers.
• Is keen to use AI to facilitate product processes.
• Has an awareness of how AI could shape search and consumer features in future.

About Rightmove: Our vision is to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen. We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market. Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here!

We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

• We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.
• We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.
• We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.
• We move together…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive.
• We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.

We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!

If all of this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...... People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.

What we offer:

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments.
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes.
• Contributory stakeholder pension.
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility.
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan.
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching.
• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more.
• We offer hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days in the office.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.