Senior Product Manager (AI)

Salary up to £69,800 - £93,359, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, generous pension scheme, hybrid working and other generous benefits

Hays Technology are working in partnership with a not-for-profit educational organisation to recruit a Senior Technical Product Manager on a permanent basis.

As a Technical Product Manager, you will be delivery focused and serve as the bridge between business strategy, user needs, and technical development, translating vision into executable roadmaps and leading the team to deliver products people love that drive business value.

The Technical Product Manager will have the opportunity to solve meaningful problems at scale and work at the frontier of AI development that will fundamentally transform the nature of the organisation.

You will lead a team of 2-3 but also coach and mentor other Product Managers across the AI centre of excellence programme (team of 32 in total).

Main responsibilities:

• Own the complete product lifecycle from concept through launch, growth, maturity, and eventual evolution or retirement
• Partner with designers and engineers to run discovery to understand (internal) customer needs and design solutions to meet these
• Define the product vision, clear product outcomes and success metrics aligned with business objectives across a portfolio of accelerator assets used by various AI pods
• Create and communicate compelling product strategy and roadmaps to executives and cross-functional teams
• Manage the prioritisation of the technical backlog and work with the tech lead to lead the technical team to deliver against the product roadmap.
• Own the release strategy and change management plan to get to adoption (working with change management resources).
• Monitor product performance post-launch and drive continuous improvement based on user feedback and data
• Manage feature deprecation and end-of-life strategies when appropriate
• Balance customer needs with business goals throughout the product lifecycle
• Coach and mentor other Product Managers across the organisation
• Review and influence product roadmaps across the various AI Pods (collaboratively with their respective Product Managers) to identify synergies, areas requiring CoE support, opportunities to standardise our approach and opportunities to accelerate value delivery.

In order to apply for the role, you must have the following skills and experience:

• Significant product management experience with proven success leading/coaching other team members
• Strong discovery skills: customer interviews, prototype testing, data analysis
• Experience working in cross-functional product teams
• Natural curiosity and passion for understanding customer problems and building elegant solutions (particularly for technical end users)
• Significant technical aptitude and experience to collaborate effectively with engineering
• An awareness of and experience with AI technologies
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with ability to articulate complex concepts clearly
• Data-driven decision-making approach
• Strong management and leadership skills to lead a cross functional team delivering at pace
• Strategic thinking and the ability to map technical work to strategic business priorities

If you have the relevant experience and would like to apply, please submit your CV.

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