Product Development Manager Mobile Apps

Description
The Role:

As a Product Delivery Manager (PDM) within our Mobile Apps Product group you will work with a dedicated development squad to drive the delivery of our customer-facing mobile applications. Our Online Shopping apps are at the heart of our business driving over 50% of our online trade across 70 international markets and serving millions of active customers with a highly personalised shopping experience.

What Youll Take On:

In this role you will drive end-to-end delivery ensuring our mobile applications provide exceptional value to our customers and the business. Your daily responsibilities will include:

• Team Management & Leadership: Guide a cross-functional team of iOS/Android developers and QA engineers by setting clear sprint goals managing resource allocation and fostering a collaborative proactive environment.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Act as the primary delivery partner for Product Owners UX designers and eCommerce leadership. You will translate technical complexities such as architectural foundations RESTful API integrations and deep-linking into clear actionable business decisions.
• Agile Governance & Delivery: Manage project budgets document dependencies and proactively mitigate release risks to ensure smooth deployment pipelines. You will champion the delivery of high-quality MVP software in a fast-paced retail environment .
• Product Health & Excellence: Embed the engineering philosophy of We build it We release it We own it. Work with the team to ensure robust quality gates are met including automated unit testing CI/CD pipelines and strict performance and observability standards.

We are looking for a sharp detail-oriented delivery professional who thrives in a fast-paced multi-team environment.

• IT Project Management: Proven experience driving software delivery ideally managing enterprise-level customer-facing mobile applications.
• Mobile Ecosystem Familiarity: An understanding of native Mobile App ecosystems like Xcode IDE and modern frameworks like SwiftUI.
• Agile Expertise: A solid grasp of core Agile principles (Scrum/Kanban) with experience managing backlogs and reporting project status via ADO or Jira.
• Communication & Facilitation: The ability to make complex mobile architectures sound simple whether you are collaborating with an iOS Lead Engineer or presenting delivery timelines to non-technical senior leadership.
• Collaborative Problem Solving: A proactive approach to teamwork showing resilience during peak seasonal retail periods and always bringing potential solutions to technical bottlenecks.

• CI/CD & Automation: Experience working with Git ADO pipelines and automated mobile testing frameworks (XCTest).
• Accessibility & Deep-linking: A passion for inclusive design including familiarity with Apples Accessibility Framework and an understanding of universal links or custom URLs.
• Cross-Platform Awareness: Knowledge of Android development using Kotlin/Compose is advantageous.
• AI & Emerging Tech: Knowledge of emerging AI innovations such as on-device model execution or practical experience using AI tools to assist in translating mobile features written in Xcode/Swift to Kotlin/Compose (or vice-versa).

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Required Experience:

Manager