Product Manager

Prodo has an exciting opportunity for a Product Manager to join our expanding Delivery team, focused on both web and app development projects.

Taking a user-first approach working collaboratively across multiple teams (internal & external) to identify the best solution for Prodo and our customers.

Competitive salary DOE | Remote work flexibility | Private healthcare plan

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About the role

This person should be able to effectively translate designs and user needs into actionable user stories, they are comfortable working with delivery methodologies, running requirement gathering interviews/workshops, and have a strong passion for UX and knowledge of the digital process.

 

We are known as the industry leader within this space and the last 24 months have seen us develop a series of exciting digital solutions that solve fundamental social housing challenges.

About the role

This opportunity provides you with the platform to introduce innovations and latest technologies, such as AI, to ensure that we remain as the industry leader, enhance our offer and solve the challenges of tomorrow

Our teams are all enrolled onto the following package:

  • 4 day working week*
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave package**
  • Enhanced paternity leave**
  • Sick pay on a 3/6/9-days per year of service respectively 

The Business

Established in 1998, Prodo was formed by Pippa Adams who is still Chair of Prodo to this day. We are a fun and friendly digital transformation agency but have clear growth and product innovation plans set out for the next 3 - 5 years. For all applicants who are interested in applying, we suggest you consider our Core Values and see if this fits your personality and traits. Have Fun, Do Good ; Stay Curious ; Get Stuff Done & Genuinely Care.

 

Role Purpose

You will be working with the all stakeholders across the business and externally with our partners and customers. You’ll be leading our product strategy and also defining the functional requirements, use cases and user journeys

Key responsibilities for this role

  • Owning, promoting and ensuring delivery of the overarching digital product roadmap; managing the pace and tempo of delivery and highlighting progress
  • Creating an environment for success and ensuring the right product management approaches are taken for each product; developing that capability within others
  • The day-to-day management and tracking of digital product budgets and contracts; ensuring value for money
  • Monitoring and measuring the performance of our digital products, working with the team to devise and monitor key metrics and measure impact
  • Managing day-to-day relationships with internal development and test teams along with our external development partners.
  • Fostering healthy and effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across social housing, working with them to understand how our digital products can support their strategic goals
  • Hands-on Product management of one or more digital products
Stay curious

Essential skills and experience

  • Expert understanding of agile methodologies, ensuring the right tools and techniques are used at each stage of the product lifecycle
  • Proven experience of leading teams through the full product life cycle, identifying which tools and techniques should be used at each stage, identifying risks and making decisions
  • Experience of coaching others, providing guidance and supporting the professional development of colleagues
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to ensure the team has a situational awareness of each other's work and gathering requirements

  • Empathy, a pragmatic attitude, and the ability to see the bigger picture
  • Pragmatic attitude to problem-solving
  • Experience managing significant digital delivery budgets
  • Significant experience in a Product Owner/Product Manager role, working in a collaborative, cross-functional team
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship building skills, including the ability to get buy-in for your ideas
  • Significant experience of creating and managing product backlogs and undertaking business analysis, mapping user journeys
Genuinely care

You’ll have access to experts in their field at Prodo (UX, design, accessibility, web development, technical, infrastructure) to help you answer more complex queries from your prospects, but you should be a quick-learner and able to adapt to situations. 

 

Personal Requirements

  • Ability to showcase where you have achieved and exceeded targets
  • 3-4 years experience in a digital agency or Sales role
  • Goal orientated 
  • Task driven 
  • Personal drive and determination 
  • Excellent communication skills 
  • Ability to ask open questions and understand customers challenges and goals (training provided) 
  • The ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment with peers who challenge you to grow and develop
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Previous successful sales experience 
  • Naturally curious and passionate
  • The technical aptitude to master our sales tools
  • A keenly developed competitive nature
  • ‘One-speed’ energy with a highly self-driven sense of motivation
  • The ability to deal with and thrive on objections and rejection on a daily basis

Prodo is a fun and friendly digital agency who have been around the block for 24+ Years. Although we are fun, we are just as ambitious to innovate and grow further.

 

This is a challenging but rewarding role.

 

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Prodo is a place where everyone can grow. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.

 

Location: Littleton, Chester for  2 days a week (partly remote)

Type: Permanent

Salary: Competitive salary DOE

Benefits Package: Private Healthcare cover, 23 days holiday + bank holidays, flexible remote working, free parking on site, free food at our onsite cafe.

 

*4 day working week starts when you pass your probationary period plus in line with company needs 

**upon 12 months of service you will receive this benefit subject to Prodo’s policy

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