Senior Product Manager
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Senior Product Manager shaping evidence-led digital products for PLOS, a nonprofit open-access publisher. Leading discovery, experimentation and product decisions during a 12-month maternity cover.
Responsibilities:
- Take responsibility for a product area
- Build a deep understanding of users, their needs and behaviours, and the surrounding organisational, operational and technical context
- Translate PLOS objectives into clear product outcomes and priorities
- Work closely with design, engineering and other colleagues to explore problems and test ideas with users and through data
- Frame hypotheses, design experiments and identify the smallest sensible way to learn
- Make product decisions by weighing evidence, impact, effort, risk and opportunity
- Define measures of success and use qualitative and quantitative evidence to assess impact
- Help the team deliver iteratively, learn from results and adapt
- Communicate problems, evidence, choices, trade-offs and learning clearly
- Create feedback loops through conversations, demos and reviews
- Enable designers, engineers and specialists to contribute to product decisions
- Understand the wider service, including processes, systems and teams beyond the product interface
Requirements:
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience
- At least three years' experience working as a Product Manager in a multidisciplinary digital product team
- Experience using product discovery alongside delivery, including user research, data, experimentation and hypothesis testing
- Experience working with significant uncertainty or ambiguity
- Experience turning complex problems into clear priorities, outcomes and practical next steps
- Experience making product decisions using user evidence, data, organisational goals, technical constraints and product judgement
- Experience communicating product thinking clearly to a wide range of people
- Experience working collaboratively with people outside the immediate product team
- Scholarly publishing experience is useful but not required
- Occasional national or international travel may be required
Benefits:
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Personal accident insurance
- Pension with up to 10% employer match
- 25 days holidays
- Market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
- Birthday and three winter holidays days off
- 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year
- Fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office













