Product Manager

Product Manager

Permanent employee, Full-time
· London Hybrid – 4 Day Work Week

70,000 - 80,000 £ per year

Climate Policy Radar is an independent non‑profit building open, credible databases and AI‑powered tools for climate, nature, and development action.

Our data and tools help governments, researchers, international organisations, civil society, and the private sector to understand and advance effective climate policies and deploy climate finance. Harnessing data science and AI – including pioneering applications of natural language processing in this field – we make previously unstructured, siloed data easier to find, understand, and act on.

We are a team of policy experts, engineers, data scientists, product thinkers, communicators, and operators. We care deeply about how we work – our values, culture, and ways of collaborating – as well as what we build. As part of that, we have embraced a flexible, hybrid approach to work, including a four‑day workweek.

In this role, you will be the expert voice for our users, business, data, and industry. You will work with our cross‑functional teams to ensure we solve the right problems and build the right things at the right time. You will take products and features from discovery and ideation, through design, delivery, and preparation for launch, to measuring of success, and through subsequent iterations.

You will lead on the CMS and data curation product capabilities that our internal teams and partner organisations use to curate documents and metadata in our database. We currently have 35,000 documents in our database from approximately 10 partners. We expect this to grow significantly.

Our ideal candidate has a broad set of skills and experiences and interests so they would be happy working on any of our products.

• Develop strategy and roadmap for your product area(s), ensuring alignment with wider product and organisational goals.
• Work to identify product opportunities together with our users and stakeholders, including research institutions, international organisations, industry, legal professionals, and more, as well as with our internal cross‑functional teams.
• Lead product discovery, conducting user research, market research, and data analysis to understand which problems to solve and how.
• Collaborate with your team to rapidly test hypotheses to determine the right thing to build for our users – supported by data and evidence – while managing cost and delivery timelines with a lean start‑up mentality.
• Define measures of success for your product(s), and monitor and measure these metrics at a product and feature level.
• Collaboratively maintain and prioritise the product backlog. Break down work into smaller value chunks and release value early and often, while maintaining product documentation to a high standard.
• Help the team plan iterations, releases, and dependency management, ensuring stakeholders are kept up to date.
• Support your team to be high‑performing, happy, and healthy.
• Be inspired by advances in AI, new technology and other organisations solving similar problems to us. Use what you learn to identify opportunities for improving our products and ways of working.
• Champion “Build Measure Learn”, creating a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, especially in discovery and delivery methodologies.
• Manage relationships with any third parties related to your product and communicate externally about our products.

• You have at least five years of experience working on software or technology products, with at least three of those years as a product manager. Ideally your experience includes:
  • Managing CMS, data curation or document database products
  • B2B2C or white‑labelled products targeted at professional audiences
• You have experience organising, structuring and labelling information so that people can find and use it easily. You can make informed decisions about metadata schemas, taxonomies, content quality standards, and curation processes. You're comfortable discussing technical trade‑offs in these domains with engineers and experts while keeping user needs central.
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