Senior Product Manager

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We are looking for a

Senior Product Manager

Location: London Team: Product Development

The Role:

The Product Development team plays a pivotal role in delivering the overall Consumer and Customer digital experience underpinning the Rightmove business. We recognise that to deliver the best products and features for our customers and consumers we need to work together effectively as a healthy, high performing team. We work collaboratively across a mix of product and centralised teams, together working towards Rightmove's strategy.

The Senior Product Manager role sits within the Product Team and is responsible for a Sub Domain within a wider Product Domain. The Senior PM will be responsible for:

• Managing the backlog of a smaller product team within the Sub Domain
• Line Management of the Product Managers that fall within that Sub Domain

The Senior Product Manager will play a crucial role in both areas by shaping, steering, and delivering the vision for the Sub Domain. This will involve close collaboration with the engineering, design, analytics teams, and other key stakeholders.

The role reports into the Head of Product for the Domain.

A typical week as a Senior Product Manager might involve:

• Leads a focused Product Team, maintaining and prioritising a backlog of improvements
• Guiding and empowering Product Managers through mentoring, championing best practice, and offering support to establish high standards of Product Management
• Supporting Product Managers with Product Discovery and Delivery processes, while maintaining accountability among team members
• Partners with Product Managers and the Head of Product to establish and own data-driven strategic objectives for the Sub Domain, focusing on both short and medium-term goals

• Engaging in the recruitment process to bring in fresh talent, enriching the team's dynamics and fostering a diverse range of skills and perspectives
• Responsible for defining and conveying the progress of OKRs within their domain to both the Product Development Management team and broader senior stakeholders
• Defining requirements and overseeing the delivery of solutions within your Product Team
• Defining and monitoring the Product health and performance metrics for your Sub Domain, actively advocating for and implementing changes based on these metrics
• Taking an active role in the experience discovery of initiatives and products, working closely with Product Design, Research and Analytics to define approach
• Spending time understanding what motivates our Consumers and Customers and ensuring they are up to date with industry insights
• Generating unique ideas, resourcefully identifying opportunities, and encouraging innovation within the team
• Working with engineers and technical architects to understand technology limitations, recommendations and development options

We are looking for someone who:

• Ability to lead and motivate both a Product Team and Product Managers towards achieving goals
• Proven track record of successful product launches or enhancements, demonstrating substantial and measurable business impact
• Willing to lead through ambiguity, aiding in identifying clear paths forward
• Enjoys and excels at delivering results through empowering and guiding the team, fostering a collaborative and productive environment
• Proficient in extracting data and transforming it into actionable insights and meaningful strategies that drive decision-making
• Loves solving customer and consumers problems and continuously seeks feedback to guide their Product Strategy
• Comfortable communicating effectively to a diverse audience, from both within Product Development and the wider audience, across all organisational levels
• Committed to transparency and clear communication, especially in challenging situations, ensuring that setbacks are addressed openly and constructively
• Exhibits resilience and maintains a positive, solution-focused approach during difficult times, inspiring perseverance and confidence within the team
• Actively seeks to understand and evaluate the commercial and operational implications (and opportunities) of their decisions within their sub-domain, ensuring a strong business acumen informs their strategy
• Constantly mindful of long-term objectives, ensuring that immediate decisions align with the sub-domain's future success
• Takes responsibility for a product and deliver it with an autonomous delivery team
• Is passionate about delivering quality software to end users
• Has excellent organisational skills and the ability to multitask
• Sets and measures clear, realistic and timely goals
• Actively encourages contributions from all those around them recognising the value of team members input when solving problems
• Will drive the vision for the product their team is working on
• Has found the agile philosophy to be second nature
• Constant need to learn and improve themselves and the processes within the team

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 Customer Care, then get in touch.