Product Designer

Vallum Associates; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Vallum Associates in Greater London seeks an experienced Product Manager to lead the end-to-end lifecycle, shaping strategy, and ensuring customer-aligned solutions. You will collaborate with business partners, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders to define value propositions and roadmaps, balancing pragmatism with quality in an agile setting.

You will contribute to governance, reporting, and resource planning, while supporting team development and aligning technical design with business

Qualifications

• Proven senior leadership and people development experience.
• Strong ability to build momentum and pivot strategically when needed.
• Technical mindset aligning concepts with business priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product lifecycle from conception to withdrawal.
• Define value proposition, strategy, and roadmap with partners.
• Ensure solutions meet customer needs and address key problems.
• Ensure delivery milestones are realistic and achieved.
• Maintain a robust, cost-effective support model.
• Governance and quality risk management including testing.
• Support recruitment and onboarding for the product team.
• Deliver against finance metrics.
• Plan resourcing for design sprints, solution build, and marketing.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to frame challenges.
• Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Champion Agile practices within product teams.
• Bridge engineering and stakeholders to meet requirements.
• Report on OKRs and status.

Skills

Business acumen

Senior leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile practices

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Job description

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Proven business acumen with a deep understanding of business strategy, commercial thinking, and portfolio prioritisation at a senior level.
• Demonstrated strong leadership and people development skills, with the ability to lead and develop teams effectively.
• Exceptional self-motivation and teamwork skills, with the ability to build momentum and pivot strategically when required.
• Comprehensive technical mindset, with the ability to grasp and align complex technical concepts with overarching business priorities.
• Proven experience in senior stakeholder management, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A history of building strong relationships with customers and teammates, with experience in bringing people together to form motivated teams.
• A strong focus on achieving business outcomes that drive value in an agile, iterative manner, prioritising pragmatism over perfection.
• Exceptional ability to convene client and senior stakeholders at all levels, from C‑Suite to process leads, SMEs, and analysts.
• Expertise in designing user‑centric solutions that respond effectively to user needs.

Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end product lifecycle, from conception and definition through delivery, monitoring, refinement, and withdrawal.
• Work with various capabilities and business partners to define a clear value proposition, strategy, and roadmap for the product or family of products.
• Ensure solutions are fit for purpose and address customer needs.
• Ensure delivery milestones are realistic and achieved.
• Maintain a robust and cost‑effective support model.
• Perform governance and quality risk management activities, including ownership of testing activities and accreditation in line with audit requirements.
• Support recruitment and onboarding activities to ensure the product team is committed and capable.
• Deliver against finance metrics.
• Plan resourcing needs based on the programmes of work required across the product lifecycle, such as design sprints, solution build, and marketing.
• Facilitate workshops and subject matter expert or stakeholder interviews to capture and frame business challenges.
• Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple stakeholder levels.
• Champion Agile practices and empower product teams to deliver solutions of the highest quality.
• Act as a bridge between engineering teams and stakeholder groups, ensuring technical design and build standards meet business and stakeholder requirements.
• Report on agreed product OKRs and status.

Technologies

• Support
• Marketing
• Product Manager
• UX UI Design

More

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the end‑to‑end product lifecycle and help maximise business results through strong commercial thinking, technical understanding, and leadership. You will work closely with business partners, engineering teams, clients, and senior stakeholders to shape product strategy, drive delivery, and ensure solutions meet customer and business needs. The role requires someone who can balance pragmatism and quality in an agile environment, support team development, and contribute to governance, reporting, and resource planning.

last updated 36 week of 2026