Product Development Manager

Overview

In this role you drive the translation of product strategy and customer needs into high-quality digital products. You steer a Product Development team across multiple agile feature squads, partnering with UX and Technology to align customer insight, architecture, and dependencies. You establish clear product definitions and ready-to-deliver criteria, resolving ambiguity and aligning stakeholders across the business. You lead with a collaborative, outcomes-focused style and help scale product development practices within a regulated financial services context.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days holiday
• 8% Pension with matched contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Share schemes (including free shares and BAYE)
• Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
• Free gym

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a Product Development team across multiple agile feature teams
• Set and maintain standards for product definition, requirements, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Ready
• Ensure work is understood with early consideration of customer, business, technical, regulatory, and operational factors
• Facilitate decision making and unblock dependencies across multidisciplinary teams
• Translate product strategy and customer needs into clear, deliverable outcomes with Product Managers
• Collaborate with UX and Technology to incorporate insight, APIs, architecture, and dependencies into product decisions
• Build relationships across Product Development and wider business and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Coordinate with Project Management to align development activity with programme plans and delivery commitments

Key requirements

• Significant experience in product development, product ownership, or digital delivery
• Experience leading or working across multiple agile feature teams
• Strong experience across Product, UX, and Technology in a multidisciplinary digital environment
• Track record of defining and delivering digital product requirements
• Experience coaching or leading Product Owners, Business Analysts, or similar roles
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills to drive decisions
• Ability to operate at strategic and detailed levels as needed
• Collaborative leadership style with constructive challenge in complex environments
• Experience delivering consumer-facing digital products; financial services or regulated environments is beneficial

• collaborative leadership
• ability to challenge constructively
• stakeholder management
• experience with agile methodologies
• experience translating strategy into requirements
• APIs awareness and architecture considerations

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