Product Manager

Proactive Appointments; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Annual leave

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Proactive Appointments is seeking a Product Manager to join remotely with quarterly meet-ups in London. You will own defined product workstreams, write requirements, coordinate with engineering, and personally ensure what is built meets the standard.

You will work closely with QA and a senior PM in a fast-paced startup environment. The role emphasizes hands-on ownership of the product lifecycle, writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria, and leveraging AI tools to improve day-to-day

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in product management, QA, business analysis, or a closely related SaaS role.
• Comfortable writing user stories, acceptance criteria and test cases with clarity and precision.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and/or Confluence (or equivalent tools).
• Actively uses AI tools in day-to-day work — and can demonstrate this.
• Strong written communication: your documentation should be clear enough that an engineer can build from it without a follow-up conversation.

Responsibilities

• Own defined product workstreams - writing requirements, coordinating with engineering, and ensuring built meets standards.
• Close the loop yourself; there is no hand-off between product and QA.
• Collaborate with QA to align on quality and acceptance criteria.

Skills

PM experience

User stories

Jira/Confluence

AI tools

Technical writing

Agile/Teamwork

Product ownership

Job description

Product Manager - Remote

Our client is urgently looking for a Product Manager to join their team on a permanent basis.

Please note, the role is remote with occasional meet-ups in London (once per quarter).

You will be working in a start-up environment working closely with a more Senior Product Manager and the QA team. Naturally, experience around QA or testing within a QA environment is required.

You’ll take ownership of defined product workstreams - writing requirements, coordinating with engineering, and then personally ensuring what's built meets the standard we set. There's no hand-off between product and QA; in this role, you close the loop yourself.

You will be rewarded with an excellent salary, as well as a brilliant benefits package including remote working, annual leave, discretionary bonus and many more perks.

Product Manager - Key Skills:

Essential

• 2-5 years of experience in product management, QA, business analysis, or a closely related SaaS role.


• Comfortable writing user stories, acceptance criteria and test cases with clarity and precision.


• Hands-on experience with Jira and/or Confluence (or equivalent tools).


• Actively uses AI tools in day-to-day work — and can demonstrate this.


• Strong written communication: your documentation should be clear enough that an engineer can build from it without a follow-up conversation.


• Works well in a small, fast-moving team with minimal process overhead.

Desirable

• Experience in SaaS B2B product or QA, ideally in a startup or scale-up environment.


• Exposure to REST API testing (Postman, ReadyAPI or similar).


• Familiarity with AWS-hosted applications and/or React/Java stacks.


• Wireframing experience (Moqups, Figma or equivalent).


• Any exposure to procurement, vendor management or supply chain technology.


• Experience with test automation tooling such as Cypress.io or Selenium.

Product Manager - Remote