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Head of Product

Job ID: 1264086

Group 21080

Country: UK
Location: Remote (work from home)
Contract: Permanent

Job Description

Do you have a passion for product leadership that you could bring to one of the most prestigious multi-media agencies within the UK?

 

As Head of Product you will have the opportunity to facilitate the commercially driven creation of digital products and solutions for B2B clients, as well as for customer-facing propositions.

You will be representing the amazing portfolio of products that deliver news, sports and entertainment content to their media and corporate customers. With an established Agile approach to technology development, innovation and delivery, your role will be central to that.

 

As part of their commitment to being a fully Agile organisation, they require a smart and inspirational Head of Product who can lead and support the product and engineering teams to deliver world class software solutions.

 

They are leading the way with other key customers, and their portfolio of products and services spans pictures, video, data APIs, graphics, and social media curation. Working with a wide range of clients including broadcasters, publishers, and newspapers – their news service provides much of the content you read and watch.

 

What you will be involved in:

  • Develop an external focus for customer research, market analysis, competitor trends and analysis.
  • Drive data driven decision making and develop product performance management.
  • Develop a product roadmap aligned to organisational vision, objectives (OKR’s) and strategy.
  • Align stakeholders around roadmap candidates and develop roadmap candidates with appropriate readiness and ROI evaluation.
  • Provide evidence with key performance data, of the impact that successful roadmap candidates have had on the business area’s objectives.
  • Utilise best-practice product management processes to understand, prioritise and deliver against the strategy, roadmap and backlog via distributed agile delivery squads.
  • Establish and champion product capability, processes, and product delivery.
  • Create and develop the product capability, process and tooling so that I can continuously deliver products, features and enhancements.
  • Support the team’s work by removing blockers, opening doors, and developing relationships that benefit the team.
  • Mentor, coach, develop, and motivate direct reports
Ideally, you will bring:
  • Head of Product and experienced in agile delivery at scale and can utilise appropriate techniques to achieve sustainable, high-velocity, quality delivery (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
  • Solid understanding of data, API’s and digital architectures - comfortable leading technical architects and legacy systems, facilitating sessions with clear logical outcomes.
  • Strong problem-solving skills – focus on solutions rather than problems – providing options, implications, and recommendations.
  • Delivery focused, proactive at getting things done through effective leadership
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills 
  • Experience in eCommerce, Machine Learning, B2B Enterprise will be a distinct advantage
 
 

Why them?

  • This is an opportunity to join a leading organisation surrounded by peers at the top of their game!
  • You will have access to excellent benefits
  • Fully remote working!
  • Flexibility to balance work/life
  • Full and comprehensive personal development training plan, with training budget and support from the team around you.
  • Detailed and clear career progression

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