Principal Product Manager

Red Badger; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Life Insurance

Critical Illness Cover

Private Medical Insurance

Hardware & phone of your choice

Matched charity donations (pre-tax)

Cycle to work

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Red Badger in London is seeking a Principal Consultant, Product Strategy to lead end-to-end product engagements, shaping strategy and delivery across client projects. You will mentor teams, apply human-centered design and Lean Startup principles, and work with clients to accelerate learning, validate ideas, and deliver impactful digital products and services.

Join a growth-minded consultancy delivering value across healthcare, media, retail and finance, with a culture of collaboration and

Qualifications

• Proven record leading end-to-end product engagements.
• Experience wiring product strategy to business outcomes in complex environments.
• Strong data-driven decision making and user-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead digital product engagements from inception to scale with speed and learning.
• Apply qualitative and quantitative methods to uncover user needs and validate solutions.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align product delivery with business goals.
• Form hypotheses, test them openly, and measure outcomes to drive value.
• Act as a Product Owner, prioritising user value while balancing business needs.
• Inspire and mentor cross-functional teams to build and launch new products.

Skills

Product Strategy

Product Leadership

Lean Startup

Agile

Human-Centred Design

Stakeholder Management

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

We are looking for a Principal Consultant, Product Strategy to join Red Badger.

We find inspiration in people – their needs, values, desires and passions. We thrive on the complexity of organisations from healthcare to media, retail and finance. Do you too? We are excited about the opportunity to mix Red Badger’s entrepreneurial, startup thinking with the resources of global organisations to unlock speed to impact in launching new propositions.

As a Principal Consultant, you’ll provide end-to-end Product leadership, co-creating and validating the product desirability, owning the backlog and connecting the business strategy with end-user value. When part of a starter team you’ll be able to work hands-on, researching, validating, designing, building and launching successful new digital products and services. As products grow you’ll be responsible for leading and inspiring cross-functional teams to deliver successful product outcomes for our clients and their end-users. You are delighted to show best practices of Human-Centred Design, Lean-Startup and Agile through the work you do and continuously accelerate the speed and quality of our learning.

You will be able to support and grow Red Badger’s wider Product capability and team including Product managers, Product designer, working with Directors and leadership to shape our strategy. You’ll be willing to share your expertise and experiences both internally and externally, actively participating in product communities outside of Red Badger.

Roles and responsibilities

• Lead Digital Product engagements end-to-end from inception to scale, always accelerating the speed and quality of our learning.
• Well versed researcher, able to use the full repertoire of qualitative and qualitative methods to discover and precisely understand human needs.
• Confident to work with senior/executive stakeholders to identify and overcome tricky organisational challenges that are in the way of successful Product Delivery.
• Precise and quick in forming solution-hypotheses and happy to test them in the open.
• Confident as a Product Owner, with the ability to identify and prioritise user value, carefully balancing business and user needs to create and launch successful products and ongoing iterations.
• Leverage your Product expertise to help clients make difficult tradeoffs with confidence and deliver value to users in the shortest time frame.
• Able to take clients and multi-disciplinary teams on the Product journey with you, and inspire them to build cutting-edge products and services.
• Champion the Product discipline in complex innovation territories and organisations.
• Be a passionate advocate for Product Management, Human-Centred Design, and Lean Startup.

Influence our clients

• Become a trusted advisor to our clients by collaborating with them to solve problems, and create products and services which deliver business and user value.
• Build strong relationships with the leadership teams of industry-leading organisations.
• Rapidly build domain expertise within our clients’ industries, understand their existing market(s) and user segments, and help them identify new ones.
• Communicate with confidence to a broad range of stakeholders and client teams.
• Identify and drive new opportunities within existing clients.
• Empower our clients to embed lasting change within their organisations.

Build Red Badger capability

• Proactively understand and share macro and micro-economic trends and how they will shape products of the future.
• Support with building, hiring and inspiring Product Strategists aligned with Red Badger’s values.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to the wider Badger Product team.
• Drive a culture of joy, quality and growth with Badgers and clients.
• Encourage thought leadership and help develop industry-leading value propositions for Red Badger.

Drive awareness in the industry

• Champion Red Badger’s approach to Product Strategy: cross-functional teams, agile and lean best practices, human-centred design.
• Understand and communicate the complete value chain (Insights, Product, UXD, Delivery, Engineering, QA).
• Promote and live Red Badger’s principles (see below).
• Be an ambassador for Red Badger, and an advocate for ‘doing the right thing’, ‘doing the thing right’, supporting and enabling others to do so.

About you

• You have a proven track record of identifying user and business needs, and testing product/market fit in lean and iterative ways, incubating new digital products and services and launching them.
• You’ve done this successfully in complex environments and can clearly articulate the user and business value of the work your teams have delivered.
• You have previously had roles such as Senior Product Manager, Product Director or Head of Product and have been involved in products across the full lifecycle, from inception to scaleup.
• You use data to drive your decisions and help others to do the same.
• You are an expert in your discipline, willing to share your knowledge and experience internally and externally to grow others.
• You are able to tailor your message to suit your audience’s needs using your exceptional communication, negotiation and facilitation skills.
• You have a growth mindset; you are always learning, curious to test and unafraid to fail. You continuously improve both what you do and how you do it. You take others on that journey with you.
• You’re proactive and are always looking for ways to make things better.
• You're honest and tell things as they are in an approachable and down-to-earth manner. You have clear points of view to give others direction and purpose.
• You’re comfortable with challenging unstated assumptions and common beliefs, in smart and constructive ways.
• You want to play a key role in the future success of Red Badger and can demonstrate getting involved in strategic initiatives that contribute to a company’s growth.
• You embody Red Badger’s principles and encourage these traits in others.
• You participate and are interested in professional industry groups and communities, attending or speaking at conferences, and actively engage with others in your discipline.

About Red Badger

The best bit about Red Badger is, of course, the team. We’ve been around for 10+ years now and we are over 130 badgers strong. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages.

Our 3 founders, Dave, Cain and Stu are actively engaged in our day-to-day, bringing considerable tech and consultancy experience and still owning 100% of the company. We’ve been consistently profitable and have grown responsibly from the beginning.

We make sure our team is well looked after with generous salaries and a great benefits package which includes.

• Group Life Insurance
• Critical Illness Cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Your choice of hardware and mobile phone
• Matched (pre-tax) charity PAYE donations
• Cycle to work
• Enhanced parental leave

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments at any point in the interview process.

Red Badger is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we're dedicated to hiring and developing a diverse workforce.