Product Manager - FTC

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Product Manager (1 Year FTC)

Location: London (Hybrid with 2 days in the office)

The role

As a key member of the Product Development team, you'll be instrumental in defining and executing the product strategy for our Signed user experience, ensuring it remains relevant, user-centric, secure and compliant. Reporting to the Senior Product Manager, you'll work within a cross-functional team comprised of a product designer, QA and several engineers, closely collaborating with key support functions like Analytics, Architecture, and Marketing.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborating with the Senior Product Manager to define the strategic direction and objectives for the Signed in user domain, backed by thorough analysis and insights.
• Maintaining a backlog of improvements aligned with overall business goals, prioritizing alongside domain-wide initiative.
• Monitoring and reporting against the products and features within your domain.
• Creating and validating business cases to support product initiatives, including clear articulation of opportunities, costs, and benefits.
• Actively contributing to initiatives aimed at enhancing user experiences, both independently and collaboratively.
• Participating in the discovery of initiatives and products, collaborating closely with Designers and Researchers to shape the approach.
• Staying informed about customer motivations and industry insights to inform product decisions.
• Generating innovative ideas and identifying opportunities to drive product innovation within the team.
• Engaging with engineers and architects to understand technical constraints and recommend development options.
• Taking ownership of requirements definition and solution delivery across your product initiatives. Accountable for ensuring solutions are both valuable and viable.
• Working across a broad range of domains to understand how the signed in experience needs to evolve to deliver against the wider business strategy.

We're looking for someone who:

• Has a proven track record of successfully delivering end-to-end software products across all stages of the product management lifecycle.
• Takes ownership of products, leading with an autonomous delivery team.
• Makes data-driven decisions and prioritizes delivering quality software to end users.
• Possesses excellent organizational skills and multitasking abilities.
• Sets and measures clear, realistic, and timely goals. Not afraid of signing up for results, even when this means they must work through others to achieve the necessary results.
• Builds a deep understanding of organizational operations and commercial dynamics.
• Encourages contributions from team members and values diverse input when problem-solving.
• Thinks long-term and drives the vision for the products they manage.
• Embraces the agile philosophy seamlessly.
• Articulates technical implementations comfortably.
• Displays a continuous drive for personal and team improvement.
• Demonstrates long-term vision and driving product direction

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we've remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We've done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

• Be approachable and appreciate what others do
• Make complex things as simple as possible
• Build great teams, because Rightmove is people
• Drive improvement, we can always be better
• Share early, honestly and often

We believe in careers that open doors, and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we're a great place to work, we're clearly doing something right!

If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...

What we offer

People are the foundation of Rightmove - We'll help you build a career on it.

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
• Contributory stakeholder pension
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
• Competitive compensation package
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.

At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.

Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are, and how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can't say 'yes' to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate about this role, then get in touch.