Hybrid Senior Product Manager – Native Apps

at Rightmove

• Job title: Senior Product Manager – Native Apps
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Product Manager overseeing Native Apps at Rightmove with a focus on delivering digital solutions. Leading a product team in developing iOS and Android apps for home movers in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Leads a focused product team, maintaining and prioritising a backlog of improvements
• Guiding and empowering Product Managers through mentoring, championing best practice, and offering support to establish high standards of product management
• Supporting Product Managers with product discovery and delivery processes, while maintaining accountability among team members
• Partners with Product Managers and the Head of Product to establish and own data-driven strategic objectives for the subdomain, focusing on both short and medium-term goals
• Engaging in the recruitment process to bring in fresh talent, enriching the team's dynamics and fostering a diverse range of skills and perspectives
• Responsible for defining and conveying the progress of OKRs within their domain to both the product leadership team and broader senior stakeholders
• Defining requirements and overseeing the delivery of solutions within your product team
• Defining and monitoring the product health and performance metrics for your subdomain, actively advocating for and implementing changes based on these metrics
• Taking an active role in the experience discovery of initiatives and products, working closely with Product Design, Research and Analytics to define approach
• Spending time understanding what motivates our consumers and partners and ensuring they are up to date with industry insights
• Generating unique ideas, resourcefully identifying opportunities, and encouraging innovation within the team
• Working with engineers and technical architects to understand technology limitations, recommendations and development options

Requirements

• Ability to lead and motivate both a product team and Product Managers towards achieving goals
• Proven track record of successful product launches or enhancements, demonstrating substantial and measurable business impact
• Willing to lead through ambiguity, aiding in identifying clear paths forward and drive the vision for the product
• Enjoys and excels at delivering results through empowering and guiding the team, fostering a collaborative and productive environment
• Proficient in extracting data and transforming it into actionable insights and meaningful strategies that drive decision-making
• Loves solving customer and consumers problems and continuously seeks feedback to guide their product strategy
• Comfortable communicating effectively to a diverse audience, from both within Product Development and the wider audience, across all organisational levels
• Committed to transparency and clear communication, especially in challenging situations, ensuring that setbacks are addressed openly and constructively
• Exhibits resilience and maintains a positive, solution-focused approach during difficult times, inspiring perseverance and confidence within the team
• Actively seeks to understand and evaluate the commercial and operational implications (and opportunities) of their decisions within their sub-domain, ensuring a strong business acumen informs their strategy
• Constantly mindful of long-term objectives, ensuring that immediate decisions align with the sub-domain's future success
• Takes responsibility for a product and deliver it with an autonomous delivery team
• Has excellent organisational skills and the ability to multitask and sets and measures clear, realistic, and timely goals
• Actively encourages contributions from all those around them recognising the value of team members input when solving problems
• Has found the agile philosophy to be second nature and is passionate about delivering quality software to end users.

Benefits

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
• Contributory stakeholder pension
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
• Competitive compensation package
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more