Product Manager

Perseus Group; Wallingford; In loco; GBP 60.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

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Gladstone Software is seeking a Product Manager to own a product area end to end, from discovery to delivery and adoption. You’ll line manage one experienced Product Manager and work with an agile squad of engineers, QA and design, alongside Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Finance to ensure customer value and outcomes.

You’ll drive discovery, prioritise roadmaps, craft clear requirements and enable effective go-to-market planning.

Competenze

• Experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner in B2B software or SaaS.
• Proven track record from idea to launch, including discovery.
• Experience with agile development and backlog ownership.
• Strong communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience coaching or line managing others.

Mansioni

• Discovery: run customer conversations and validation sessions to identify problems and size opportunities.
• Delivery: own and prioritise the roadmap and backlog; write clear requirements and user stories; collaborate with engineering, QA and design.
• Go to market: plan launches with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success and Support; shape messaging and demos.
• Across all three: provide clear progress updates to executives and align with product leads; manage risks and dependencies.

Conoscenze

Product Management

Customer communication

Agile

Backlog ownership

Coaching/mentoring

Business case development

Stakeholder communication

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Job Description: Product Manager

The role We’re looking for a Product Manager to own a product area end to end: working out what to build, getting it built well, and making sure customers use it. You’ll also line manage one experienced Product Manager. Gladstone has been transforming leisure management software for over 40 years. Our platforms power bookings, memberships and payments for councils, universities, trusts and leisure operators across the UK and Ireland. Our purpose is simple: getting more people, more active, more often. You’ll take a problem from first customer conversation, through discovery and delivery, to launch and adoption. Then you’ll measure whether it worked. You’ll thrive here if you’re curious about customers, comfortable making trade-offs, and judge yourself by outcomes rather than releases.

Where you’ll sit

You’ll report to the Chief Product Officer and join a small, collaborative Product team where some Product Managers manage others. You’ll partner day to day with an agile squad of engineers, QA and design, and work closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Support, Professional Services and Finance.

What you’ll do

Discovery: decide what’s worth building Run regular customer conversations, site visits and validation sessions with operators, from front-of-house staff to senior leadership. Use usage data, support trends, sales feedback and market and competitor insight to find and size problems. Build the business case for significant investments and present it to senior stakeholders. Weigh one customer’s request against what the wider customer base needs, and favour scalable, reusable solutions.

Delivery: get the right thing built well Own and prioritise the roadmap and backlog for your product area, balancing customer value, commercial priorities and technical considerations. Turn problems into clear, outcome-focused requirements and user stories, and refine them with the squad. Work daily with engineering, QA and design: join planning, refinement and reviews, and make scope decisions quickly. Champion user experience and self-service, so solutions are simple for operators and their members. Spot and manage risks, dependencies and compliance needs, and communicate them early. Coordinate with third-party and partner development teams, influencing without direct authority.

Go to market: make sure it lands Plan launches with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Support and Professional Services, so every team is ready on day one. Shape positioning and messaging, and equip Sales with clear value propositions and demos. Make sure release notes, Knowledge Base articles and training materials are accurate and ready. Across all three Provide clear updates on progress, priorities and outcomes to the executive team and wider business.

Use AI responsibly in your own work, and consider where it can improve every feature you own.

Line management

Line manage one experienced Product Manager, coaching and mentoring them on Gladstone’s products, customers and ways of working. Work alongside them as a peer on delivery. Align goals, priorities and delivery updates with the CPO and other product leads.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner or in a similar role in B2B software or SaaS.
• A track record of taking products or features from idea to launch, including discovery work, not only delivery.
• Hands-on experience working with agile development teams and owning a backlog.
• Confidence talking to customers and turning what you hear into clear problems and priorities.
• A commercial mindset: you can build a business case and make trade-offs on value, cost and effort.
• Strong written and verbal communication, adjusted for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience coaching, mentoring or line managing others.

Why join Gladstone

You’ll join a collaborative Product team shaping leisure management technology used by councils, universities, trusts and leisure operators across the UK, and deliver products that make a real difference to our customers. As part of the Vesta Software and Constellation Software group, we combine the agility of a specialist software business with the backing of one of the world’s largest software groups.

Business Unit: Gladstone Software

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 37.5 Number of Openings Available: 1 Worker Type: Regular Career Site: More About Jonas Software

Jonas Software is a leading provider of enterprise management software solutions, serving a wide range of vertical markets including hospitality, healthcare, construction, education, personal care, fitness, leisure, moving and legal services, to name a few. Within these markets, Jonas is comprised of over 65 distinct brands, each a respected leader in its domain.

Jonas’ vision is to be the branded global leader across these verticals and to be recognized by customers and industry stakeholders as the trusted provider of “Software for Life.” We are committed to technology, product innovation, quality, and exceptional customer service.

Jonas Software supports over 60,000 customers in more than 30 countries. We employ over 6,000 skilled professionals, including industry experts and technology specialists.

Across our broader network, we support a global workforce of more than 30,000 employees. Headquartered in Canada, Jonas Software has a global footprint with offices around the world.

We’re a 100% owned subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc., based in Toronto, publicly listed on the TSX (CSU.TO), and a member of the S&P/TSX 60 Index.

IS THIS YOU? At Vesta, we have long realised that our greatest asset is our employee base. As such we strive to provide our team with a fantastic working environment and an enriching career, which we know will translate into world-class service to our valued clients. This allows Vesta Software Group to maintain and extend our lead as the premier software and services provider in each of our markets. If being part of a growing organization that moves at a fast pace and constantly strives to get better each and every day is what you are looking for, then we want to hear from you. Everyone has heard the sports analogy “to be the best, you have to beat the best”; well at Vesta Software Group we have tweaked that slightly to fit vertical market software. We believe to be the best you have to hire and retain the best!!! Vesta Software Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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