At The Stepstone Group, we help everyone get the job that best fits their life. Whether it is the next step in their career, or a job to pay the bills - we exist to match lifestyles with livelihoods.  

We play our part by giving people everything they need to find the right job for them in that moment; making jobs work for more people, whatever they do, and however they choose to do it. 

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at Totaljobs is critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent on the market. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of your background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application or interviewing, please let us know. 

We also have a hybrid approach! Work from home 2 days and 3 days at the office!

As a Senior Product Manager you will work on our Jobseeker Platform (B2C) and collaborate closely with other Product Managers, Product Directors, Product Designers, Researchers, and Software Engineers to make an impact within our core web product experience. 

In the StepStone Group, everything we do has the ‘user first’ approach and consequently the Product organisation has a high degree of customer obsession with a discovery led approach for building better products. We build fast and we build incrementally, ensuring we test continuously so that we maximize the positive impact for our customers. With ready access to subject matter experts in their domains or specific aspects of the product lifecycle, it’s a great environment for product professionals looking to raise the bar in a global, scaling & future orientated marketplace. 
 
With a large (and growing) investment and strategic direction, focussing on harnessing AI to revolutionise an entire industry; this role will suit someone who is comfortable using analytics and research data to drive feature decisions and product improvements, which they can develop into a roadmap, keeping a balance between product discovery and product delivery, whilst maintaining a focus on innovation. 

 
Day to day 

• Product vision:
  Drive the vision of your products and understand how it is embedded in the overall product and corporate strategy.  
  Demonstrating a comprehensive, in depth understanding of value creation in The StepStone Group overall.  
  Clarify for the teams the ‘why’ and the ‘what’ – the business priorities, vision, the requirements and the metrics to move. 
  Focus on understanding the friction points in the user journey and work with user research to confirm and validate with prototypes, user feedback and experimentation. 
  Take a data driven approach for measuring effectiveness of new features and establish improvement areas. 

• Ownership  
  Own the prioritisation of your backlog, the discovery of strategic opportunities, enabling and empowering your team by providing product roadmaps and deliver consistently with a 'can do' attitude within a context of high alignment and high autonomy.  
  Build and maintain a robust backlog for the engineering team and clarifying requirements during planning and as required. 
  As the product moves from discovery to definition, work with user experience design, Go To Market and engineering teams to create appropriate rollout plans. 
  Develop and maintain business cases for the product and feature investments. 

• Stakeholder management 
  This job is an individual contributor role. You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, customers, and key executives, through your use of data and thought process.  
  Work in close partnership with engineering and design to identify and manage trade-offs. 

• Communication
  Ensure a constant communication flow and updates about status of the development and initiatives to partners and main stakeholders, offering transparency and enthusiastically communicate achievements.  
  Evangelize agile best practices and coach other teams in the domain to develop problem statements and form hypotheses for new features. 
  Participate in agile ceremonies of sprint reviews with the engineering teams. 
  Support Product operations around organization level reporting and roadshows for new feature launches. 

Skills, know-how and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field, or equivalent practical experience.  
• Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery.  
• Proven experience of product incubation, incrementally building and scaling up high traffic products. 
• 6+ years working on technology-powered products as a Product Manager. 
• Demonstrated ability to learn multiple functional areas of business e.g engineering, design, finance, sales & marketing.  
• Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to difficult problems with many constraints, using sound judgement to assess risks, trade-offs and to lay out your proposals in a well-structured, data-informed narrative.  
• Comfort working with User research and a discovery led approach for feature backlogs. 
• Data driven approach for building features and improving products.  
• Experience of end-to-end product delivery in a fast paced environment. 
• History of being a strong collaborator and consensus builder across various product and tech teams 
• Demonstrated ability to track industry trends and understand the competitive landscape of your product.  
• Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship. 
• Proven ability to utilise advanced analytical skills to enable effective collaboration with data scientists or data analysts.

Benefits and Rewards:

We believe in giving recognition to our employees, so if you are interested to find out more, please look at the The Stepstone Group career site.

• Holiday - We feel work-life balance is important, so we offer every single one of our employees 29 days holiday a year, plus public holidays.  Everyone also has the option to buy or sell up to three days each year in our Holiday Flex scheme. 
• Family Leave - We understand that laying the foundations for a smooth start to family leave will also make for an easier transition back to the workplace and subject to qualifying criteria, the benefits under the Company Family schemes are more generous than required under current legislation.
• Pension Scheme - To help our people plan for their future we offer an excellent pension scheme.
• Medical - Access to digital GP and well-being services.
• Charity - Each employee receives x2 additional days off every year to volunteer to charitable causes. We also give our employees the chance to 'give as they earn' meaning they can donate tax-free to a registered charity, and The Stepstone Group will match their contribution up to a value of £10 per month.

When you apply for a role with us you will be asked to complete an equal opportunities questionnaire. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reach out to one of the team.