Senior Product Manager (Enterprise consulting)
Job Description
Job title: Senior Product Manager (Enterprise consulting)
Company: Simple Machines
Job description: Simple Machines’ mission is to ensure our clients get the most out of their data by designing and building modern data platforms, engineering data powered software applications and products, and enabling engineering and data driven business focussed use-cases.
We specialise in architecting modern data platforms, enabling use-cases on top of these platforms, and designing and building data driven greenfield software applications and products.
Sound okay so far? Read on!
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our close-knit team of experts in the UK to help deliver our client engagements as we scale our UK business.
If you excel in client facing roles, have a deep understanding of how modern software is built and delivered, and have a passion for all things Product then we’d love to hear from you.
Brief overview of the role’s responsibilities:
- Working within a cross-functional Simple Machines project team, helping to deliver new data led solutions for our enterprise clients.
- Providing product management expertise within the team, leading the work the Simple Machines engineering team do and providing advice to client stakeholders on how to build great products.
- Take ownership of the full product lifecycle with our clients. Driving great discovery work, facilitating efficient build and release, and closing the lifecycle loop with data and feedback gathering.
- Delivering a valuable product to our clients by helping them to realise and measure the benefit of the solutions the team are building.
- Owning relationships with client stakeholders, helping to maintain and enhance Simple Machines’ reputation with that client and in the wider market.
Requirements
What we need from you
You will love and excel in this role if you:
- Have a refined understanding of how modern software is built and delivered – technologies, methods and frameworks, common challenges etc.
- Hands on experience as a Product Manager in an enterprise environment, with an array of methods and experience you can bring to activities across the product lifecycle.
- Know how to effectively communicate information between people at all levels of the business, in written and verbal form, with the ability to influence stakeholders through good communication.
- Personal interest in best practice and trends of the technology and data industries, with the ability to apply these to your day-to-day work and drive improving outcomes for the team.
- A relationship builder by nature, and someone who can thrive in new teams and new situations.
- A proactive person who knows what needs to be done to deliver, how to approach it, and how to influence others to move things forward.
- An ambitious person who is excited about the prospect of joining a small team of experienced people and helping our Simple Machines UK team to grow.
Your prior experience
- You would have gained experience working in either Technology Consulting or a Software product company.
- You will have worked in a client facing role: as a consultant, front office role like sales engineer or product role for a B2B tech company, working with client teams.
- Several years’ experience working on software projects, preferably in a more than one of analysis, delivery, product, test or even engineering roles.
Benefits
Working at Simple Machines
We’re looking for someone who’s as passionate as we are about building a world-class company.
Just some of the benefits of working with Simple Machines include:
- Flexible working: Leave early to pick up the kids? Need to start early some days, later on others? No problem
- Generous parental leave: Three months fully paid primary carer leave and one month fully paid secondary carer leave, subject to a minimum 12 month tenure
- Learning and development: We all love continually learning and have a generous budget for you to upskill, join conferences, get certified and qualified
