Product Manager

Product Manager

Location:

We operate a flexible, hybrid working environment with the candidate required to travel to either our Winchester or London office once or twice a week.

• Up to £80K base salary
• 10% Bonus
• 6% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture

Manages strategic product initiatives, guiding products, product lines and cross‑functional teams as required. Prioritises backlogs, roadmaps and associated initiatives and acts as the bridge between customers, developers, and wider stakeholder groups

• Owns the product roadmap, backlog and prioritisation for a specific product or feature set within the broader product portfolio
• Understands and communicates customer, market and business needs clearly and concisely to relevant teams across the business
• Carries out user and market research to ensure the products remain relevant
• Represents customers, the business and Product Management in project and delivery meetings and ceremonies, as required
• Manages and influences peers and stakeholder through compelling and concise storytelling and communication
• Translates user needs to features, prototypes, user stories and marketing stories – provides clear and concise specs to developers and engineers
• Conducts QA checks to ensure features are built by developers according to specs (accepts or rejects)
• Represents products at user testing sessions
• Responsible for setting success metrics and reviewing measurement of KPIs with Data and Insights and other relevant parties
• Communicates product vision, roadmap and progress to wider stakeholders
• Relentlessly negotiates and communicates changes to priorities to stakeholders
• Manages products throughout the entire lifecycle (design, build and run), and ensures value creation through development
• Makes bold decisions, including sun setting and/or maintaining products, if and when appropriate

• Proven product management experience, with a proven track record of partnering with engineering teams to build large‑scale products and platforms, with experience and an understanding of relevant product and technical frameworks, including standards, product lifecycle, data and insights. B2B experience preferred but not essential
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and deliver products that meet the needs of target markets
• A demonstrable ability to collaborate and influence multiple partners, driving consensus and commitment
• Understanding of Arqiva’s product landscape, target markets and ability to translate that into Arqiva’s vision for the future
• Motivated self‑starter with the conviction and confidence to pivot and/or stay on course in the face of adversity
• Willingness to fail and acceptance of critical feedback to improve product and product practices

• Expertise in customer and market analysis and strategic positioning of products to maximise market share and profitability.
• Strong financial acumen to manage budgets and forecast product performance.
• High proficiency in decision‑making and prioritisation across complex and competing needs.
• Communicates clearly, concisely and appropriately to the audience
• Ability to adapt and anticipate based upon changing market and customer needs
• Curiosity:
  Remains in the problem space when others have jumped to solutions
• Champions a culture of innovation and experimentation within product management, encouraging creative thinking and exploration of new ideas.
• Familiarity with building business cases for the adoption of new technology as well as the launch of new products and services
• Proven ability to gather and analyse user requirements and translate them into user stories and actionable product features
• Excellent understanding of, and ability to operate in, all phases of the product lifecyle
• Excellent understanding of best‑practice product management, product and customer experience

We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast, and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work.

Our focus for 2025 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply!