Principal Product Manager

Waracle are looking for a Principal Product Manager for an exciting new role joining our world‑class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology‑driven transformation.

We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business‑critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.

This is a Hybrid role working from our London office 2 days a week.

Are you a collaborative product leader who thrives on bringing clarity to complex spaces and lifting up the teams around you? As a Principal Product Manager, you will act as a vital champion for our growing Product Practice, operating as a trusted advisor to executive and C‑suite stakeholders. In this highly collaborative multiplier role, you won't just manage products—you will architect the very discovery and delivery frameworks that empower our cross‑functional squads to succeed.

If you are a holistic thinker who loves bridging the space between Product, UX, and Delivery, and you enjoy mentoring the next generation of product talent, we would love to welcome your perspective to our team.

• Strategic Vision: Developing the 3–5 year strategic focus for high‑stakes propositions, blending deep research with collaborative insights to uncover new market opportunities.

• Discovery Architecture: Leading inclusive, cross‑functional discovery programmes that turn ambiguous business challenges into clearly validated product journeys.

• Product Governance: Designing and embedding best‑practice discovery frameworks across the organisation, ensuring our backlogs are structured to deliver genuine value to customers.

• Cross‑Team Orchestration: Guiding multiple squads through complex dependencies, building supportive environments that simplify large‑scale programmes.

• Data & Value Realisation: Helping teams define meaningful, long‑term business metrics and nurturing advanced data capabilities across the wider organisation.

• Executive Partnership: Cultivating trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, facilitating alignment sessions to shape multi‑year goals, and mindfully managing risks.

• Mentorship &
  
  Coaching:
  
  Providing warm, impactful thought leadership to support Product Managers with their communication, navigation of complex spaces, and career progression.

• Commercial Growth: Infusing creative product thinking into new business proposals and partnering with our Client Services Group to evolve our consulting offerings.

At Waracle, we believe that great leadership isn't about matching a rigid checklist—it's about the unique experiences, insight, and empathy you bring to a team. If you are excited about this role and share our passion for creating meaningful digital experiences, we highly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet every single requirement listed above. We are dedicated to building an inclusive environment where your voice will be heard and celebrated.

• Consultancy Leadership: Extensive experience guiding product strategy within a digital consultancy environment, with a proven ability to foster collaboration and deliver client value.

• Delivery Leadership: A strong track record of supporting and guiding multiple cross‑functional squads or complex portfolios.

• Agile Strategy & Frameworks: A deep, practical understanding of scaled Agile frameworks and modern, human‑centred delivery models.

• Data‑Informed Strategy: Comfort using delivery data and core product metrics to gently challenge assumptions and shape impactful client strategies.

• Executive Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication and relationship‑building skills, with a history of building trust with executive and C‑suite leaders.

• Organisational Design: Experience helping shape, resource, and nurture team structures during complex enterprise agile transformations.

• Domain Credibility: The ability to quickly…