Senior Product Manager / Owner

Overview

Role: Senior Product Manager

Location: London (hyrbid) or remote working

Role ID: 2023 - 1996

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

At Ricardo, we believe in fostering an environment where you can thrive and make a meaningful impact. We are committed to empowering our employees, providing opportunities for growth and professional development as well as cultivating a supportive and inclusive work environment.

A critical part of our vision is to provide our customers with the digital tools and products that empower them to make positive and meaningful change to become more sustainable and protect our environment.

Our Product Leadership team plays a leading role in identifying, assessing, designing, and delivering these digital tools and products, and we are looking for a Senior Product Manager / Owner to join the team and help us achieve our vision of creating a safe and sustainable world.

You will get the opportunity to collaborate closely across the globe with industry leaders, technical experts, and various customers to identify a pipeline of ideas for innovative digital products. You will then employ a variety of methods and tools to assess, design, commercialise, and deliver these ideas to our customers by working alongside our digital engineers, data science, and marketing teams.

We encourage applicants to apply even if they have experience in some of the capabilities listed below, while having limited or no experience in others. If you are passionate and motivated to contribute to our mission, we welcome your application and look forward to hearing from you.

We encourage you to apply for this role if you have some of the following skills and experience:

• Agile software delivery.
• Service and User Experience Design.
• Story Mapping and User Story Creation.
• Proposition Development.
• Market / Customer Research and Assessment.
• Product pricing and positioning, particularly in Software as a Service (SaaS) and Subscription Products.
• Financial modelling and business case creation.
• Competitor analysis.
• Product vision, innovation, roadmap, and prioritisation.
• Executive level stakeholder communication and management.
• Experience in the environmental, energy or transport domains would be a bonu

As a Senior Product Manager your main responsibilities will include some of the below activities based on your experience:

• Developing and presenting strategies that highlight opportunities for new products.
• Researching customers and organisations to identify insights, pain points, un-met needs, and persona types.
• Performing market and competitor research to understand current trends, gaps, and market size (e.g., Total Addressable Market, Serviceable Available Market, Serviceable Obtainable Market).
• Running collaborative workshops and incubators to turn opportunities into ideas.
• Assessing ideas to validate customer desirability, technical feasibility, and commercial viability.
• Setting a product vision and using this vision to drive a prioritised roadmap.
• Working with agile delivery teams to deliver software to customers through a set of User Epics and Stories.
• Defining commercial and pricing strategies for software products, including subscriptions, software as a Service (SaaS), and licensing models.
• Writing business cases and presenting these to executive level stakeholders for funding.
• Writing and implementing go-to-market strategies and product marketing campaigns.

The behaviours we are looking for in our team members are:

• Curiosity – you enjoy exploring new areas and subjects, asking questions that help to dig deeper into each subject area, and not being afraid to ask the ‘simple’ questions that many are too afraid to ask.
• Customer focused – your natural home is with the end customer and bring value by helping others place themselves in the customers shoes.
• Balanced – creating ‘win – win’ outcomes are your superpower, being comfortable when trading off competing perspectives for customer need, financial viability, and technical feasibility.
• Simplicity – you are constantly translating complex problems and solutions into simple language, pictures, and concepts, ensuring everyone from the technical engineer to the CEO is on the same page.
• Risk taker – you are not afraid of trying and failing, demonstrating to others that failure is an outcome to be celebrated and nurtured. You understand you cannot succeed unless you have failed and learnt in the process.
• Caring – being kind to one another and expecting this in return is part of your core. You understand that everyone has the potential to be great and nurturing this growth by caring for each other is a part of your DNA.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

We also recognise that life is not static but is varied and flexible. For this reason, we also think that your work life should reflect this and have an open approach to how, where and when you work.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next Steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer - please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.