Lead Product Manager

TL;DR

Lead Product Manager: Provide product leadership across portfolios, service areas or major client programmes with an accent on vision, strategy and roadmap direction. Focus on balancing user needs, business priorities, technical constraints and delivering high-quality outcomes through multidisciplinary teams.

West Midlands Only On Site

Company

hirify.global Ltd works with multidisciplinary teams across data, AI, software engineering, product, QA and delivery to create practical outcomes for clients and end users.

What you will do

• Lead product strategy, vision and roadmap across multiple products, teams or services.
• Balance user needs, business priorities, technical constraints and value for money in product decisions.
• Coach and support product managers, applying Agile, Lean and product management practices.
• Own senior stakeholder relationships and influence strategic decisions using evidence and user insight.
• Define, review and improve product outcomes, KPIs and success measures.
• Manage risks, dependencies and life cycle decisions across discovery, delivery, live service and retirement.

Requirements

• Extensive product management experience across complex digital products, services or portfolios.
• Strong ability to define product strategy, vision, roadmaps, outcomes and prioritised delivery plans.
• Expert stakeholder management skills, including influencing and negotiating at senior levels.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Lean delivery, user-centred design and evidence-based decision-making.
• Experience coaching product managers and leading product practice across teams.
• Ability to manage dependencies, risks and value decisions across the product life cycle.

Nice to have

• Experience in consultancy, public-sector, regulated or enterprise product environments.
• Experience contributing to business cases, service standards, portfolio governance or programme planning.
• Familiarity with analytics, research, experimentation and product performance measurement.