Hybrid Junior Product & Strategy Manager

at Mixam

• Job title: Junior Product & Strategy Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Switching
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Leavesden, United Kingdom

About the role

• Junior Product & Strategy Manager supporting product team in a hybrid role across multiple teams. Involves document management, user research, and project coordination.

Responsibilities

• Support Product Managers with maintaining the product backlog and preparing clear user stories and requirements.
• Assist with gathering and documenting business needs from different teams.
• Join sprint planning, stand-ups, and other Agile ceremonies to help keep development work on track.
• Support user acceptance testing to ensure new features meet expectations.
• Carry out research on customers, competitors, and market trends to support product decisions.
• Analyse data and highlight trends or opportunities for improvements across digital and physical products.
• Own the product backlog and internal/customer requests, assessing the feasibility, operational impact, and ROI ensuring priorities are aligned with business value and available capacity.
• Map processes and help identify areas where workflows can be streamlined.
• Act as a clear point of contact between product, development, operations, marketing, and customer service.
• Help with tracking progress, planning workloads, and ensuring priorities are aligned across teams.
• Prepare notes, summaries, and follow-up actions to support ongoing projects.
• Assist with early-stage exploration for new product ideas and features.
• Help assess feasibility, costs, and customer impact for potential additions to our product range.
• Support launch preparation by coordinating assets, content, and internal communication.
• Keep documentation and project information well organised and easy for teams to access.
• Provide structured support to Product Managers and, when needed, leadership.
• Help maintain smooth communication and alignment across different departments.

Requirements

• Experience in product management, ecommerce, platform development, or a related product-focused role is helpful but not essential.
• Experience in a small company or startup environment is a strong advantage.
• Background in the print industry or working with ecommerce platforms is preferable.
• Experience working with global teams and cross-functional product workflows across digital and physical products is beneficial.
• Understanding of UX principles and the digital and physical product lifecycle is an advantage.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the confidence to act as a clear link between teams.
• Highly organised, structured, and comfortable switching between tasks in a fast-moving environment.
• Confident working with data, spreadsheets, and general business tools.
• Analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills and a data-driven mindset.
• Familiarity with analytics tools, A/B testing, and performance tracking to support product decisions.
• Able to manage multiple tasks, prioritise effectively, and keep projects moving.
• Comfortable learning quickly, adapting to change, and contributing as a proactive team member.
• Experience using project management tools
• Proven ability to support or lead cross-functional work, including product launches, is a plus
• Track record of building processes from scratch is a huge plus.

Benefits

• **Why This Role Might Suit You**
• You enjoy structured problem-solving but don’t want to be boxed into a single discipline.
• You like supporting a team while also having space to develop your own responsibilities.
• You’re looking for a hybrid role that blends product work, coordination, and strategic thinking.
• You want to grow into a Product Owner or Product Manager role over time.
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