Product Manager

TN United Kingdom; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a passionate product manager to lead the development of AI software that transforms how developers write tests. This role combines strategic vision with hands-on execution, allowing you to influence product direction and enhance developer productivity. You will work closely with a talented team to understand user needs and drive product adoption, ensuring that your contributions have a significant impact in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. If you are eager to shape the future of software development and thrive in a dynamic setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Dedicated workspace

Open-plan office

Natural light

Qualifications

• Strong product management experience with enterprise software developers.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to analyze user segments.

Responsibilities

• Define product roadmap and user positioning for Diffblue products.
• Drive agile practices with the engineering team to develop user stories.
• Gather feedback from users to inform product roadmap decisions.

Skills

Product Management

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

User Experience Design

Java Development

Education

Technical Degree

Computer Science Degree

Job description

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Operates from: Hybrid working, with visits to HQ in Oxford at least once a week.

About Diffblue

Diffblue is one of the most powerful use cases for artificial intelligence in the world today. Developers typically spend 25% to 50% of their time writing unit tests, which is not a task most enjoy. Our product – Diffblue Cover – is a generative AI agent that automatically writes and maintains unit tests for Java applications. It works 250 times faster than a human and is 26x more productive than an experienced developer using the latest LLM-based code assistant tools like Copilot. We enable our customers to ship better quality software faster and with less toil for developers.

Diffblue spun out of the University of Oxford and is backed by leading UK VCs like IP Group, Albion VC, and Parkwalk, as well as Citi (also a customer). Our software is used by some of the most demanding and sophisticated software development organisations in the world, including BNY, Capital One, S&P Global, ING, and Workday.

As an early-stage company in one of the hottest software markets, Diffblue offers a fast-paced, customer-focused, empowering, and collaborative working environment. If you’re interested in a company where your skills and effort can make a difference every day, then you should check us out.

The Role

In this role, you will take the leading role in delivering a new category of AI software that automatically generates tests for software, making developers more productive and accelerating software delivery.

You’ll combine your product management skills with your passion and enthusiasm to develop and define a winning product strategy and turn it into a clear, prioritised backlog of stories and epics for Diffblue Cover. You will partner closely with Diffblue’s CTO / Cofounder and the engineering team to acquire, integrate, and synthesize inputs from customers, prospects, partners, competitors, analysts, and academics.

You have delivered B2B products that developers love and have a software development background, ideally in the Java space. You are comfortable with DevOps and agile, and can converse just as well with developers as you can with IT leaders. You love to influence and collaborate with customers, partners, developers, support, and sales engineering teams that share your passion and exhibit good judgement in selecting strategic opportunities.

You understand that effective communication starts with great listening skills and a strong sense of curiosity. You’re willing to ask why until you get to the true essence of an issue. You believe that focus and ruthless prioritization are essential in a world of scarce resources. You can operate at both the strategic and tactical levels, and you’re not afraid of rolling up your sleeves. You know that speed, agility, alignment, and effort are part of the magic that enable little companies to win against the incumbents.

You don’t just want to be part of an industry movement; you want to be out in front leading it. You will be reporting to our Co-founder and CTO, Dr. Peter Schrammel.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of developer challenges, particularly related to testing their code, and understand where their organisations want to go to accelerate their SDLC. Use this to define the product roadmap and user positioning for Diffblue products.
• Drive standard agile practices with the engineering team to develop user stories, refine backlog, develop roadmaps, estimate features, and prioritize tasks.
• Rigorously track product performance and prioritize user stories that drive the product forward, resulting in successful technical evaluations, excellent developer experience, and large-scale user adoption.
• Proactively gather feedback from prospects, users, and customers to inform product roadmap decisions.
• Support marketing in producing high-quality content, perform competitive analyses, deliver compelling product demos, and conduct outreach activities to drive awareness and adoption of Diffblue products among Enterprise Java developers and IT professionals.
• Regularly engage with customers, prospects, and partners to evangelize Diffblue, share our roadmap, and refine our product strategy.

Requirements

• Strong product management experience working with enterprise software developers.
• Track record of driving strong product adoption by delivering the right features at the right time.
• Good understanding of the challenges enterprise developers face around code quality and testing.
• Ability to analyze user segments and competition, and develop effective tactics to address them.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Technical Degree or equivalent experience.

Optional but highly desirable

• Experience in the Java Development Community.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, including startups.
• Experience developing developer tooling products, technologies, or platforms.
• Computer Science or Software Engineering Degree (or equivalent experience).

While we expect the future of work to continue to be a hybrid model, we have a great environment in our Oxford-based head office, including:

• Beautiful open-plan space with lots of natural light.
• Your own dedicated workspace with laptop, dock, and monitor.