Arbor
Senior Product Manager
RemoteUnited Kingdom only
- Role
- Product
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
£70k/yr
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Senior Product Manager (remote, UK-only, £70k/yr) for Arbor's school-management suite covering the MIS, SAMpeople, Timetabler and Arbor Finance. Needs proven senior product experience driving products from concept to launch across cross-functional teams and complex, data-heavy domains. Education sector experience is a plus.
What you'll do
- Own and maintain a strategic product roadmap aligned with company goals, while staying informed and challenging the strategic direction.
- Define problems and hypotheses based on customer needs and feedback, ensuring alignment with the product strategy.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product Design during discovery to identify assumptions, risks, and testing strategies.
- In collaboration with Product Design, conduct thorough user research and user-test prototypes and designs, to validate potential solutions and de-risk delivery.
- Plan and coordinate the delivery of product development in partnership with the Engineering Manager, through iterative sprint cycles and regular team ceremonies.
- Use data-driven iteration and testing to measure impact and inform adjustments.
- Maintain contextual awareness of the business, education sector, and user needs, and effectively communicate this to the team.
- Foster collaboration, communication, and a culture of shared learning within the team and across departments.
- Champion a user-centric approach using feedback, metrics, and research to inform product decisions.
- Document all work stages and contribute to team knowledge and setting up other teams (including Sales and Customer Teams) for success.
- Proactively communicate with stakeholders on milestones, progress, and changes.
- Work with our go-to-market committee and other departments to successfully launch new products.
- Continuously seek improvement opportunities and share learnings.
What they require
- Clear communicator who can take complex requirements and turn them into a prioritised roadmap and backlog for their engineering team
- Proven experience working in a senior product role, with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, finance, legal and marketing
- Experience working on complex requirements across multiple domains, and/or a proven track record working with data products where details matter
- Demonstrable track record of taking new products from concept to launch, in collaboration with go-to-market teams
- Comfortable working with remote teams
- Passion for building user-centric products that make a difference
- Experience in the education sector is advantageous
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with multiple internal stakeholders and high levels of collaboration
Benefits
- A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more
- 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) — 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company-wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
- Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
- Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health with 24/7 virtual GP service, mental health support, counselling and personalised health checks
- Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
- Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity leave (6 weeks full pay)
- 5 free return-to-work maternity coaching sessions
- Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
- Flexible working
- Social committees that plan team, office and company-wide events
- Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD, upskilling resources, professional memberships, etc.)
- Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
Arbor provides MIS and school management tools for schools and trusts, helping staff use data, improve efficiency, and create happier working days in education.
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