Product Manager - Network API

Vodafone; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in the UK is seeking an experienced Product Manager to join the Network API team. You will capture customer needs, manage the product lifecycle, and ensure alignment with market requirements. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product management, particularly with APIs, and enjoy collaborating in a dynamic, international environment. This role offers significant opportunity for impact within a global brand.

Qualifications

• Excellent product management capabilities driving stakeholders to align with product strategy.
• Broad experience in API product creation, ideally in the telecommunications industry.
• Strong collaboration skills in a complex multi-business environment.

Responsibilities

• Capture and translate global customer needs into product capabilities.
• Manage end-to-end product and project management.
• Lead product lifecycle including market and regulatory alignment.

Skills

Product management

Collaboration

API Product creation

Customer centricity

Global strategy

Education

University degree or equivalent

Job description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

Help us ‘Create the Future’ (one of Vodafone’s key Spirit behaviours) as we build and scale our new Network API team. The team’s purpose is to deliver API products that unlock the value of our technology assets and meet the needs of a new customer - the Developer. We will do this by designing and building a new suite of API products to be scaled across Vodafone markets, commercialising the APIs to maximise value, and growing our channel and portal capabilities to ensure the product gets in the hands of the customer.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an empowered team which operates as an agile start-up, whilst equally benefiting from the scale and recognition of a global brand. We are looking for a collaborative product leader who can shape the products that form the basis of this new opportunity.

The Network API team has accountability across all Vodafone markets for directly monetisable APIs and has the single view out to all customers via the Developer Marketplace portal. Making sure that we offer the right portfolio and that our products meet our customers need is a key role as we unlock the opportunity of this growth area for Vodafone.

You will evolve our Product strategy and roadmap in alignment with overall business objectives and key external and industry CAMARA and Vodafone’s future strategy.

You will own all product management lifecycle phases, and drive thought leadership in Industry, championing the customers needs and balancing this with the regulatory landscape access all Vodafone markets and beyond.

You will lead the creation of Business Cases, Propositions, GTM Plans, demand forecasting models and critical product, operational and marketing metrics in collaboration with cross functional team including internally experts from Customer Experience, Finance and Technology areas and key external contacts from channel and industry.

Overall, the Product Manager is responsible for execution of Vodafone’s Network API portfolio strategy and ensuring the customer is championed throughout the product ideation and delivery process.

The key responsibilities will include :

• Capture and translate global customer needs into clear product capabilities and features
• Focus on ‘total product design’ to ensure all E2E requirements are captured including quality, safety, regulatory and sustainability.
• Align these requirements with Industry to create a fully scalable product with market and carrier uptake.
• End-to-end product and project management from concept & product definition to the delivery of consumer services, in time and quality
• Responsible for the implementation of the product requirements as well as for the platform functionalities and interfaces towards the end customer.
• Supplier management and relationship management with the platform suppliers
• Acts as ‘chief publicist’ for their product to ensure all go-to-market and launch requirements are consistent.

Who you are

• Natural ability to lead on behalf of their product on a global scale.
• Excellent product management capabilities, driving senior functional stakeholders to align with their product strategy and requirements. Highly proficient at managing global strategy and commercial requirements for global product / s.
• Excellent product knowledge. Able to spot global product and technology trends. Good Understanding of key Network enabling product technologies
• Strong collaboration and international experience and background in a complex multi business, multi-cultural matrix environment is essential.
• Engages local stakeholders regularly on all aspects of their product and includes their feedback in the key product lifecycle management phases
• A self-starter with high levels of self-motivation, energy and initiative.
• Broad Experience API Product creation, preferably in the telco industry
• Extensive professional experience in customer centric digital product roles
• University degree or equivalent desirable
• Willingness to travel