Product Manager

Mid-level Product Manager – Startup Studio/ consultancy (12-month FTC)

London · Hybrid (2 days/week in the office)

Want more variety than one product can offer, without disappearing into Big 4 bureaucracy? This role sits in a small, smart startup studio/consultancy helping healthcare and fintech clients ship real digital products – from rebrands and re-platforms through to true zero-to-one apps and web experiences.

The company

You’ll be joining a startup studio-style consultancy that partners with high‐growth healthcare and fintech businesses on big digital transformation projects. Think: redesigning patient or customer journeys, rebuilding legacy web/app experiences, and creating new products from scratch – always in tight cross‐functional teams with design and engineering.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be the Product Manager embedded into client squads, working closely with design and engineering on a mix of short and long‐term projects. Typical work might include:

• Taking products from idea → MVP → iteration for mobile and web.
• Running discovery: user interviews, mapping journeys, defining problems and opportunities.
• User stories, backlog management, agile seramonies
• You will do some business analytics tasks for the team
• Writing clear user stories, managing backlogs, and keeping delivery flowing in an agile setup.
• Making trade‐offs with engineers and designers, and pushing back when there’s a better way to solve the problem.
• Working with clients to clarify goals, define success metrics, and keep everyone pointed at outcomes, not just outputs.
• Testing and learning – from usability testing to small experiments to validate decisions.

Who this is great for

You’ll likely recognise yourself in a few of these:

• Around 3+ years as a Product Manager (or very strong PO), shipping real features in a startup or scaleup environment or small consultancy
• Comfortable with ambiguity – vague briefs, evolving requirements, and figuring things out with imperfect information.
• Solid grounding in agile: backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint rituals and working closely with tech and design.
• Happy talking to customers, digging into problems, and turning insight into clear product decisions.
• Confident enough to challenge stakeholders and teammates respectfully when something doesn’t make sense.
• Curious about consultancy/studio work: you want exposure to different products and problem spaces, but in a small, low‐ego team rather than a huge corporate machine.

This probably isn’t for you if your experience is purely big enterprise (agency or in‐house) and you haven’t had to own product decisions in scrappy, fast‐moving environments.

The setup

• Contract: 12‐month fixed‐term (maternity cover), strong chance of extending if things go well.
• Location: London, 2 days per week in the studio; the rest from home.
• Team: High‐calibre, hands‐on product, design and engineering team who like to collaborate and share thinking.
• Exposure: Mix of healthcare and fintech clients, from rebrands and redesigns through to new product builds.

If you’re a mid‐level PM in a startup/scaleup who’s been quietly eyeing consultancy work – but put off by the usual bureaucracy – this is a great way to step into that world while still feeling like you’re in a product-led startup.