Senior Product Manager

Mariana Tek; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocket ship and join us as a Senior Product Manager! Are you a team-player, motivated to make a difference, and looking for your next exciting career move? We are a global provider of gym management software, dedicated to our vision of motivating, educating and inspiring individuals to a healthier lifestyle through the use of our ‘member-centric’ fitness software, and are looking to increase our team due to our continued global expansion.

Job Description

A successful Product Manager can independently lead and manage a business or product area within a brand. They can pinpoint customer value and identify MVP solutions that can be delivered through collaboration with design and engineering team members. This person is directly engaging customers on a weekly basis to better understand the industry, customer pain points, and how their product delivery will solve customer problems. A successful Product Manager engages internal stakeholders to drive product understanding and establish a strong public narrative for release. They are continuously developing expertise in their business or product area through research, competitive analysis, emerging technologies and market trends. A Product Manager owns the management of their roadmap and must have a clear understanding of the reasoning behind each decision.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Owns planning, vision, and implementation of features for your business or product area.
2. Engage current and prospective customers to understand and analyze their needs, business practices, and future plans.
3. Identify areas of improvement with your existing product area and fresh opportunities to thrill the market.
4. Engage internal stakeholders to drive product releases and support the public narrative for feature releases.
5. Deliver clear and comprehensive product requirements to provide guidance to the development team.
6. Own the management and grooming of a product backlog ensuring tickets are ready to be pulled into upcoming sprints.
7. Engage sales, marketing, and customer support to capture customer feedback and to ensure prompt and seamless delivery to the market.
8. Align your product roadmap with the broader product strategy and find balance in delivery between long term investments, shorter term wins, and tech debt.
9. Partake in the Scrum process and help drive effective scrum ceremonies including standups, grooming sessions, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
10. Outline key metrics for success and articulate plans for continuous measurement and iteration.
11. Ability to focus on customer value and identify MVP solutions that deliver on that value with the least amount of time, effort and risk.
12. Identify and eliminate low value work undertaken by their agile team.
13. Engage with design, research, and development to clearly articulate customer pain points and build a process for effective problem solving.

Qualifications

1. 6+ years professional experience managing software products from inception through launch and iteration.
2. Ability to operate and engage with a product team with minimal supervision.
3. Experience and comfort engaging customers directly regarding product and business challenges.
4. Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment.
5. Empathetic: you have a talent for understanding what our customers are trying to achieve and why they are trying to achieve it.
6. Analytic: you can spot the commonalities in seemingly different customer requests and identify opportunities to address them with a unified solution.
7. Innovative: you have a flair for bold ideas that can potentially deliver game-changing competitive advantages.
8. Strategic: you can slice big projects into pragmatic MVPs that maximize customer value with the least amount of time, effort and risk.
9. Collaborative: you believe that a team works best when everyone is communicating daily about how each person’s piece fits in the shared vision.

Additional Information

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersections of our differences - people of diverse cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you do not tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

Values and Life at Xplor

Our four core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

Make life simple
Build for people
Move with purpose
Create lasting communities.

If these values sound like you, and describe people you want to work with, you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer, you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits are:

• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer.
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community.
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, plus regular career and growth conversations with your leader, as part of Xplor GPS.
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program.
• Access to free mental health support.
• Flexible working arrangements.

Ready to apply?

To start your application, please submit your resume and we will be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process.

More about us

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don't send your application via email.

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community.

We make it a priority to respond to each person who applies.