Lead Product Manager

Harnham; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media organization in Leeds is looking for a Lead Product Manager. In this role, you will lead a team while working with senior stakeholders to provide strategic insights that drive digital growth. The ideal candidate has experience in digital product or streaming and is confident in managing relationships at a high level. This full-time position offers a hybrid work model, requiring office attendance three days a week.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in digital product or streaming, ideally with exposure to agile delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management skills to influence at C-suite level.
• A track record of delivering strategic insights linking audience behaviour to growth.
• Leadership experience with line management and coaching.
• Broad understanding of analytics, research, and data disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Streaming & Social insight pillar with senior product leaders.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, shaping briefs.
• Oversee major strategic projects from audience growth to product enhancements.
• Coach and develop a team of Business Partners.
• Act as a thought leader on product and digital transformation.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Digital product experience

Agile delivery

Leadership and coaching

Analytical thinking

Media experience

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Manager - Analytics in the North & Midlands (UK) at Harnham

Lead Product Manager

Leeds (Hybrid – 3x Days a Week in Office)

Are you a digital product leader with a passion for audience insight and growth? This is an opportunity to take on a newly created role at the forefront of a major media organisation’s digital transformation journey!

THE COMPANY

Join a recently centralised audience division, comprising of insight, data, and research functions brought together into a single, high-impact team at the heart of the business; their mission is to deliver independent, strategic insights that drive decision-making across product, streaming, and social, helping shape the future of how audiences engage with their content for this well-known media brand

THE ROLE

As the Lead Product Manager you will head up a pillar team of four Product Managers/Business Partners and act as the strategic link between senior product leaders and the wider insight function. You’ll be a trusted advisor to C-suite stakeholders, bringing clarity to business questions, challenging assumptions, and ensuring insight is embedded into key decisions

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the Streaming & Social insight pillar, partnering with senior product and streaming leaders to influence digital growth
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders, shaping briefs, and directing the right mix of research, analytics, and external expertise
• Overseeing major strategic projects; from audience growth opportunities to premium product enhancements and trading funnel optimisation
• Coaching and developing a team of Business Partners, upskilling them in effective business partnering and commercial impact
• Acting as a thought leader on product and digital transformation, bringing an agile, commercial mindset to how insights drive performance

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

I’m looking for a confident and commercially minded leader who can bring:

• Proven experience in digital product or streaming, ideally with exposure to agile delivery
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the gravitas to challenge and influence at C-suite level
• A track record of delivering strategic insights that link audience behaviour to growth and revenue performance
• Leadership experience: line management, coaching, and developing teams
• Broad understanding of analytics, research, and data disciplines (hands-off, but able to direct cross-functional teams)
• Media or content experience would be beneficial but not essential

The Benefits

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Product Management

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