Product Manager

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Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

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The new role, Product Manager (Preprints) enables Springer Nature’s strategy to create and publish preprints that help researchers publish early versions of their research, and make it available to the wider scientific community.

Working closely with the Head of Product and internal development teams, the role will develop Springer Nature’s capability to create and manage preprints through the entire user journey. Success will be measured by our impact on core publishing KPIs (e.g. content usage, direct submissions) supported by preprints.

• Manages preprints experiences on our customer-facing website, ensuring that users can quickly discover, connect, publish and manage their preprints with Research Square (RSQ).
• Manage a product (or products) that are commercially important, complex or editorially sensitive.
• Embeds within internal development teams to deliver core user journeys and optimise internal capabilities and processes.
• Ensures that preprints iteratively use data-led use cases to create a best-in-class customer experience together with the UX and CX teams.
• Works proactively and independently with stakeholders, partners and other Product Managers to create, own and execute a product strategy that blends commercial, editorial, technical and customer needs.
• Sponsors and applies original customer research and data insights to shape the product, where applicable.
• Works with Product leadership to ensure that managed products are aligned to overall company product portfolio and strategy.
• Develop products across the full product lifecycle from inception to retirement, proactively seeking decisions to create and retire products.
• Represent the Product Management discipline internally and externally for Springer Nature ensuring that SN keeps-up-to-date with the latest product management practice.
• Partner with Associate Product Managers and Product Managers to develop core Product Management skills.

• University education in a relevant area or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Established excellent track record in product development and management, with demonstrable experience managing customer focused digital products in technology or relevant industry.
• Proven success in meeting product goals including quantitative, qualitative and…