Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager | Deep Tech SaaS Start-up | London Harmonic is thrilled to partner with a market-leading Deep Tech start-up in their search for a dynamic Senior Product Manager to spearhead new developments in the product team and drive the company's growth during an exciting period of expansion. The Client Our client is on a mission to maximise the economic and social value that software engineering organisations can deliver. Their vision is to become the global reference for optimising the performance of software engineers. They empower businesses to manage software development more efficiently through their cutting-edge analytics platform. This platform provides valuable insights into coding efforts, enabling management to assess daily, project, sprint, or task-based investments for developers, teams, or vendors—regardless of language, platform, or location. They take pride in being a global industry benchmark for software development, supporting clients ranging from large corporations with over 1,000 developers to small startups in various industries, including financial services, health technology, retail, advanced engineering, and technology. The Role This role will suit a dynamic and visionary Senior Product Manager with a passion for revolutionising the software development landscape. The business is seeking an exceptional Senior Product Manager to spearhead their flagship product, Developer Analytics, and empower software development organisations to achieve peak performance. In this influential role, you will create a clear strategic direction, shape the product vision aligned with business objectives, collaborate with stakeholders, inspire and guide cross-functional teams to achieve common goals, drive innovation, make a lasting impact and redefine the future of software development performance optimisation. Responsibilities and tasks:

• Developing and driving the product vision and strategy across the business with senior stakeholders
• Owning, defining, planning and communicating new product features, roadmaps, product backlog and success metrics. Understand markets, competition and user requirements in depth to identify market opportunities, new feature requirements, and build business cases.
• Empathising with users, conducting user research, and translating user insights into actionable product improvements as part of requirement collection initiatives.
• Identify problems, analyse root causes, and develop creative solutions to drive commercial success of the product and feature delivery: increase revenue, reduce sales cycles and reduce manual work owned by the client facing teams.
• Being goal-oriented, focusing on outcomes: owning usage, retention and P&L.
• management: collaborating with senior management, customer facing teams, engineering and user experience teams, negotiating priorities, and providing clear direction.
• with Sales, Customer Success & Marketing to drive forward the feature launch and grow its impact on company revenue.
• Gathering, analysing and using data, weighing various options and metrics, considering risks, using data to drive product decisions and making choices that drive product success.
• Embracing new technologies, market shifts, and emerging trends, adjusting product strategies and plans accordingly.

Technical requirements/ Previous experience:

• 5+ years of experience of Product Management within a scaling SaaS organisation, leading end-to-end product delivery of small to medium and complex features, involving multiple teams and stakeholders, driving product strategy forward by building roadmaps.
• Proven product development experience, making products commercially successful as well as delivering the desired impact.
• Background in Software Development, Computer Science, Data science, or Mathematics and a strong understanding of software development best practices, SDLC, users and decision makers.
• Experience working with internal and external senior stakeholders, and with cross-functional teams.
• Built prioritisation frameworks and roadmaps
• Experience in Product Development Lifecycle, product scoping, requirement gathering, backlog management, schedule and estimations, reviews and validations, execution, tracking and monitoring, documentation.
• Experience in conducting market research and competitive analysis to identify market trends, customer needs, and potential opportunities.
• Proven experience in launching new products
• Worked on setting and applying KPIs and metrics to measure success and provide objective oriented results

Desirable (not a must):

• Experience working with large complex dataset and generating actionable insights
• Experience leading software engineering team or product team
• Good Technical understanding of Product Analytics, JIRA and Figma
• Advocate for user-centred design practices, provide input on user research and usability testing, and ensure that the product's user experience aligns with customer expectations.

Reporting to the Head of Product Hybrid working - 2 days remote and 3 days in the office each week Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year Salary : £70,000 to £75,000 annual Start date : ASAP Please get in touch with Stephen at Stephen.Kerins@Harmonicoperations.com At Harmonic, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and assure you that every candidate will be thoughtfully considered for the roles we represent, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation.