Lead Product Manager – Behavioural

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Lead Product Manager owning YouGov’s behavioural data portfolio. Driving product strategy, partnerships, roadmaps, and commercial success for consumer-insight products.

Responsibilities:

  • Own and evolve YouGov's behavioural data portfolio
  • Own the full product lifecycle from discovery and validation through launch, optimisation, and retirement
  • Identify and evaluate new behavioural data partnerships and opportunities
  • Define product requirements, success metrics, and go-to-market plans for new initiatives
  • Monitor product performance and KPIs using customer, product, and commercial data
  • Partner with commercial teams on packaging, positioning, and adoption
  • Develop and maintain the product roadmap with clear deliverables and measurable outcomes
  • Build business cases and recommendations for investment and prioritisation decisions
  • Identify emerging behavioural data sources, market trends, and customer needs
  • Act as subject matter expert for YouGov's behavioural data products
  • Build relationships across product, engineering, data science, research, marketing, and commercial teams
  • Lead cross-functional delivery while balancing customer needs, business priorities, and technical constraints
  • Communicate product strategy, priorities, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders at all levels
  • Partner with senior leadership to shape the future direction of the behavioural data portfolio
  • Gather and synthesise customer, market, and competitive insights
  • Maintain awareness of behavioural data, market research, consumer insights, privacy regulations, and emerging technologies
  • Ensure customer needs remain central to product decisions and roadmap priorities

Requirements:

  • Strong product management experience within data, analytics, SaaS, or technology-led environments
  • Understanding of behavioural, digital, or consumer data products and their commercial applications
  • Experience working with engineering and data science teams to deliver scalable product solutions
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using product, customer, and commercial data to support decision-making
  • Knowledge of data privacy and governance considerations relevant to data products
  • Experience within market research, consumer insights, media measurement, adtech, or related sectors is advantageous
  • Strategic thinker with commercial awareness and execution focus
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience working with senior leaders
  • Excellent communication skills, able to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments and navigating ambiguity
  • Collaborative, customer-focused, and outcome-oriented
  • 7-10+ years' experience in product management, including several years operating at a senior or lead level within data products, analytics platforms, or technology businesses
  • Proven track record of delivering product roadmaps from concept through launch and ongoing optimisation
  • Experience working with global, cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders
  • Experience in behavioural data, market research, consumer insights, media measurement, adtech, or related data environments is advantageous
  • Degree-level education in Social Science, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
  • Recognised internally as a subject matter expert in their field, with a track record of providing thought leadership that has shaped product direction

Benefits:

  • Bonus
  • Paid vacation, holidays and sick days
  • Flexible working arrangement available
  • Group medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Company-paid life and disability insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Incentive compensation may be available for certain roles
  • Additional benefits may be available for certain roles