Job Specifications
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.
We are looking for a Product Manager to join the RM+ Framework Team on a Fixed Term 12 Month Contract
Contract Type: 12 Month FTC (for Maternity Leave Cover)
Location: London Soho Square - Hybrid work mode (with 2 days a week in the office)
Department: Customer - Rightmove+ Framework
Reports to: Head of Product
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 Product Manager role sits within the Product Team and is responsible for helping to shape and deliver the Product strategy that underpins the professional platform used by Rightmove Customers, Rightmove Plus. This will involve collaborating with several other product teams who develop in Rightmove Plus. As well as delivering on the team’s own roadmap to set the Platform up for long-term growth. The Product Manager role reports to the Head of Product and works closely with other Product Managers, Engineering, Design, Architecture and Operations.
A typical week as a Product Manager might involve
Working with the Head of Product to help shape the strategic direction, vision and objectives for Rightmove Plus based on clear rational, analysis and insights
Maintain a backlog of improvements for your area, clearly describing how they support our overall business goals and work with the Head of Product to prioritise these alongside the wider priorities for the domain and product function
Manage the ownership and monitoring of the products and functionality owned by the team through use of the objectives and KPIs you will define
Create and validate business cases that underpin the product/initiative, with clear definition of opportunity, costs, and benefit
Pro-actively contribute to initiatives that aim to improve our customer or consumer experience, both identifying your own contribution and supporting others in theirs
Initiate and/or undertake any analysis to highlight any impacts to systems or business processes
Take an active role in the experience discovery of initiatives and products, working closely with Product Designers and Researchers to define the approach
Collaborate with user experience specialists and visual designers to re-work existing experiences, as well as creating new ones
Spends time understanding what motivates our customers and ensuring they are up to date with industry insights
Generates unique ideas, resourceful in identifying opportunities, and encourages innovation within the team
Work with engineers and technical architects to understand technology limitations, recommendations and development options
Accountable for requirements definition and delivery of solutions across your product/initiatives
We Are Looking For Someone Who
Can lead product discovery
Has experience delivering successful end to end delivery of software products in a technology-led company
Takes responsibility for a product and deliver it with an autonomous delivery team
Makes data driven decisions
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
Builds a deep understanding of how an organisation is run, both commercially and operationally
Actively encourages contributions from all those around them recognising the value of team members input when solving problems
Thinks long term, and will drive the vision for the product their team is working on
Has found the agile philosophy to be second nature
Comfortable describing the technical implementation of their product
Constant need to learn and improve themselves and the processes within the team
Is equally comfortable and engaged negotiating the roadmap with the Head of Product or discussing implementation with our engineers
About Rightmove
Our vision is to give everyone the belief that 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'
About the Company
Since launching in March 2000, we have remained the market leader and the go to place for people looking for their next home to buy or place to rent. To make all those home hunters happy we’ve invested in our tech and our website, we’re constantly looking to try new things with an aim to help make home moving easier.
Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month. Our website and apps receive over 150M views per month, making us one of the most top visited sites in the UK!
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