Lead Product Manager

Reed.co.uk

London

Hybrid

GBP 80,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Contributory pension scheme

Insurance benefits including life assurance

Discount schemes including gyms

Job summary

A leading recruitment marketplace in London is seeking a Lead Product Manager to enhance user experiences across their platform. You will define strategic roadmaps, manage other Product Managers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven solutions. The role requires extensive product management experience and offers competitive salary and hybrid work flexibility.

Qualifications

Extensive experience in product management with a proven track record.
Strong commercial acumen and understanding of business drivers.
Ability to work with ambiguity and deliver complex solutions.

Responsibilities

Define and deliver a strategic product roadmap.
Manage and mentor other Product Managers.
Build strong relationships across various teams.

Skills

Product management

Data analysis

User research

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Experience in product management

Tools

A/B testing

Data tracking tools

Job description

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Head of Talent Acquisition at Reed.co.uk

Reed.co.uk is looking for a Lead Product Manager to join their team in Holborn, London.

Salary £80,000 - £90,000 per annum

Overview

At Reed.co.uk, we believe the world should Love Mondays. That’s why we’re dedicated to making it easy for job seekers to find a job they’ll love – and for recruiters to find them. As one of the UK’s leading recruitment marketplaces, our products power millions of job searches every month. From our flagship reed.co.uk website to our award-winning mobile app, we help people find fulfilling work — and help businesses discover great talent.

About the role

Our Product Management team is laser-focused on delivering great user experiences, grounded in a deep understanding of user needs through research, data analysis, and market insight.

We’re looking for a Lead Product Manager to take ownership of a strategically important domain — one that spans multiple product areas and underpins key experiences across our platform. You'll work closely with AI and engineering team members on a day-to-day basis, shaping the strategic direction of your domain and enabling the delivery of compelling, data-informed user experiences.

You’ll thrive here if you enjoy navigating complexity, collaborating across disciplines, and delivering meaningful outcomes at scale.

This role also includes line management responsibility for one or more Product Managers, supporting their growth and professional development. You’ll also assist the Director of Product in driving alignment across teams.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with the Director of Product/SLT to define and deliver a strategic product roadmap for your domain, driven by data, user research and market insight
Manage and mentor other Product Managers, supporting their growth, unblocking their challenges, and driving alignment across your domain and others
Create and maintain a prioritised product backlog parallel tracking discovery and delivery
Define, track and measure OKRs ensuring tangible improvement to performance metrics
Champion a test-and-learn culture grounded in data and customer insight, balancing experimentation with pragmatic delivery
Create a strong voice-of-customer feedback loop for your domain, ensuring user needs are understood and surpassed
Create user stories and acceptance criteria for your cross-functional Product team to build against
Build strong relationships across engineering, design, commercial, marketing, and data teams - collaborating effectively to prioritise and execute against the roadmap
Provide strong stakeholder management, clearly communicating priorities, progress, trade-offs and opportunities
Act as a role model, actively contributing to a positive working culture within Product & Design

Skills and Experience

Extensive experience in product management, with a proven track record of owning and delivering high-impact, scalable solutions that drive commercial and customer value
Experience defining product roadmaps driven by data, user research and market insight
Proven expertise in developing voice-of-customer feedback loops and usability testing to inform product improvements
Experienced at analysing data, running A/B tests and tracking product performance to drive measurable improvements in OKRs, with a strong commercial skill set
Strong product prioritisation skills, with a tool kit of prioritisation models such as RICE and MoSCow
Deep empathy for customer needs with a proven track record of reducing friction, simplifying user journeys and reducing cognitive load
Confident working with change and ambiguity, able to balance high level strategic thinking and technical detail
Strong commercial acumen, with a clear understanding of business drivers and success metrics
Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills - able to bring diverse perspectives together towards a shared vision
Experience leading and mentoring Product Managers, creating empowerment and enabling them to succeed
An understanding of AI/ML fundamentals, including supervised & unsupervised learning, LLMs, generative models, etc.
Demonstrable data literacy skills, ability to manipulate and interpret datasets unaided, including experiment results.
Strong technical grounding, able to comfortably have conversations with engineering colleagues on technical subjects.
Experience with search technology, recruitment tech or marketplaces is a plus, but not essential.
Hybrid working as standard
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Paid time off to move home
Contributory pension scheme
Enhanced family leave benefits
Insurance benefits including life assurance
Discount schemes including gyms and popular retailers
Range of wellbeing and mental health support avenues
Office in a fantastic location, with countless bars, restaurants and theatres right on the doorstep
These are just some great benefits we offer everyone working at Reed.co.uk!

Why Join Us?

You’ll be joining a passionate, collaborative and forward-thinking product team where your voice will shape the future of how employers find talent across the UK. If you're ready to lead with impact, influence at the highest level, and drive meaningful change - we’d love to meet you.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Product Management
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet

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