Reporting to the Head of Product Management for Product Lifecycle, you lead a team of talented Product Managers, and are accountable for a set of complex and company strategic UIs and services within the Product portfolio and would drive product strategy, roadmap and execution for them. You will own the vision & strategy for the exciting Quality area which is the heart of our Magnetic Value pillar. You will be working with the Quality business, Online team and Marketplace and F&F propositions.

A master practitioner of Product Management, you are responsible for ensuring that your team contains the product management resources and skills required to ensure you can successfully execute the strategy and roadmap for your portfolio of products.

• Have accountability for a complex set of UIs and APIs that involve multiple internal/external stakeholders, and drive product strategy, roadmap and execution for that by leading a team of talented Product Managers.

• Understand your business stakeholders and their pain points really well and steer your team in the right direction by putting the best team members in the most value generating products/ business priorities.

• Set clear goals and KPIs for your team members and periodically review all the KPIs owned by the team spanning across multiple products and provide feedback on improving those.

• Handle conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong, talented and opinionated team.

• Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by working with your Head of Product and other stakeholders and proactively flag any risks or delays in your commitments.

• Contribute in capability and capacity planning to Product Management for your own Product area to ensure capacity to drive work.

• Build and nurture a great team of Product Managers for your Product, based on the business needs, strategic priorities assigned, and level of focus required.

• Carry out people routines for direct reports and develop talented people.

• Identify and remove impediments to ensure your team is successful in delivering the committed deliverables.

• Motivate the team by ensuring they have fulfilling roles, proper rewards and recognition strategies.

• Conduct fair performance appraisals and provide constructive feedback for your team.

• Collaborate with Head of Product to understand future demand and direction of your product.

•         Carrying out product management of both UIs and APIs and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries between related APIs.

•         Have proven success in leading a team of highly talented and opinionated product managers and taken multiple ideas from conception to go-live, through standard software product development lifecycle and got measurable success across defined KPIs.

•         Experienced in capacity planning, forecasting and working with senior stakeholders to understand future demands and align allocation/ hiring.

•         Knowledge of underlying business processes and systems.

•         Efficient in stakeholder management and has ability to steer the team in the right direction by putting best team members in the most value generating Products/ Business priorities

•         Knowledge and experience of product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical experience. 

• Extensive experience with both UX/UI and transactional APIs and service-oriented architecture. Technically competent to influence and understand the solution context and approach (legacy, tactical, strategic) and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested.

•         Understands the impact technical debt is causing and the value Tech upgrades can bring in, and can hold the objective conversations with your technology counterparts to prioritize it during any sprint.