Head of Product Operations
The job
Your job will be to manage the product management practice for a leading SaaS business. You will directly line manage a team of 6 senior product managers, who line manage the wider team. Your job will be to improve execution and delivery of product roadmaps of new products by interfacing with technical teams who are arranged in various agile delivery teams across multiple business areas, reporting to the c-suit on product delivery, all whilst managing multiple stakeholders across the business.
The delivery teams are fairly fractious because they are organised across business areas, as your products will touch multiple business areas your resource will come from multiple technical teams, which has to this point cause delays in delivery. To fix this you will develop and implement strategies to improve delivery timelines and proactively manage dependencies.
As the practice lead your job will be to help the product manages to become more confident in their approach to delivery and move from a team with brilliant ideas and roadmaps, to a team that this executing the delivery of these products. You will promote a high performing culture within the product team driving accountability.
You will best practice execution on roadmap priorities, with a particular focus on effective initiatives prioritization and robust operational processes that ensure predictability and effectiveness in delivery.
They have recently changed their entire delivery model, and are not looking to rip this up and start again, you will be helping to mature this model and make it work better for the product teams.
This team already has a Head of Product, their job is to set the strategic direction of the product.Your job is to manage the practice and drive execution, working very closely with the head of product and the wider C-Suite.
The company
This is a scaling SaaS business that are entrenched in the financial services industry working with some of the most demanding customers in the world. They are fanatical about deliver the very best for their clients are hugely ambitious.
You will join this business at an exciting time as they embark on an ambitious innovation programme, which will involve a radical overhaul of their existing products whilst they build new ones. They have gone through big periods of change (positive ones – growth orientated) and now want to enter a new phase of evolution where they are delivering more value with their extra investment.
Location
London – Hybrid
Salary
£150-170,000 Plus benefits
Employment basis
6 month FTC to Permanent (some flexibility here)
AI in our process
Initi8 do use AI, but we do not filter our applications using it.
What to do now
If you have experience of bringing teams together to improve delivery of products, whilst line managing Product managers and stakeholders then please send me your CV and we can arrange a time to talk. Just on the CV, please can you not send me a profile that has been written by AI.
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