Product Manager (Product-Led)

MadeByAI; Chester; Híbrido; GBP 34.000 - 83.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

MadeByAI is seeking a product-led operator to shape and improve digital products day-to-day. You will make strong product decisions, tighten UI/UX, and drive backlog clarity, working with an AI-enabled development team.

This is not a pure development role, but a technical background helps you diagnose bugs and collaborate effectively. The role focuses on Joggle and MadeByAI client projects, with a preference for Chester/Wrexham in the North West and a contract/hourly engagement that could

Formación

• Proven ability to ship digital products and improve user-facing experiences.
• Strong backlog writing with clear acceptance criteria and outcomes.
• Excellent UI/UX sense to refine flows and polish interfaces.
• Ability to work closely with engineering teams on delivery and debugging.
• Experience diagnosing API behavior and data/state issues in apps.

Responsabilidades

• Own product decisions and backlog priority with clear outcomes and tickets.
• Diagnose issues with the AI dev team, reproduce, isolate, describe, and guide fixes.
• Write external specs for larger features to maintain coherence across teams.
• Preserve scope and avoid overbuild while clarifying ambiguities with stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Product leadership

Backlog management

UI/UX judgement

Technical understanding

Bug reporting

Descripción del empleo

Contract / Full-time pathway North West (Chester / Wrexham preferred) - Online/Remote possible too

MadeByAI needs a product-led operator to improve and shape products day-to-day: making strong product decisions, tightening UI/UX, and driving clarity across the backlog. This is not a traditional "developer" hire, but the person must have enough technical/coding background to accurately understand bugs and collaborate effectively with an AI-enabled development team to resolve them.

What you'll work on

• Joggle Ltd products (including JAIN and Joggle)
• MadeByAI client projects (delivery-focused product improvements and build support)

Primary working interface will be Tim Olsen (MadeByAI) and Simon Grice (Joggle).

1. Product decisions and backlog ownership

• Triage, prioritise, and define outcomes so work is unambiguous
• Turn messy issues into crisp tickets: what's broken, why it matters, what "done" looks like
• Raise the quality bar so the product is aesthetically strong and functionally clear

3. Bug understanding and resolution with the AI dev team

• Accurately diagnose issues at a product + technical level (reproduce, isolate, describe)
• Work closely with the AI dev team to resolve bugs using clear intent, acceptance criteria, and validation steps
• Validate fixes and prevent regressions through structured testing and edge-case thinking

4. Spec writing for larger work

• For small changes: keep momentum and clarity
• For larger features: produce an external spec (flows, rules, acceptance criteria, constraints) so development stays coherent

5. Scope control and version clarity (V1 vs V2 discipline)

• Protect the agreed scope for the current version
• Prevent accidental overbuild or miscommunication to clients
• Identify ambiguities in the spec and push stakeholders to clarify what "should happen"

Required characteristics

The ideal profile is a "structured artist": high product taste + structured thinking + broad experience building apps.

Strong product taste and care for detail; genuinely values craft and simplicity

Structured thinker who can turn ambiguity into a clear plan and clear tickets

Outcome-driven and pragmatic: can make high-quality calls quickly

Confident communicator who can push for clarity and maintain alignment

Comfortable in a small team / founder-led environment where momentum matters

Highly passionate about AI, development, and product development

Skills and experience required

• Proven experience building and improving real digital products (especially apps)
• Strong backlog management: writing clear tickets and acceptance criteria
• Strong UI/UX judgement: improving flows and making products feel "right"
• Experience working close to delivery (not "strategy-only" product management)

Not a full-time engineering role, but you must be technical enough to accurately understand issues and collaborate with an AI dev team.

• Understand API behaviour (requests/responses, auth, status codes)
• Diagnose data/state issues (why UI shows the wrong data, why something "drops back", etc.)
• Write strong bug reports including: steps to reproduce, expected vs actual, environment details, impact, and acceptance criteria

Understand core software concepts well enough to make sound product calls:

• Frontend vs backend responsibilities

Good fit signal: you've coded and shipped software before (even if you're not coding daily now), and you've debugged real app issues.

Location

Ideally based in the North West, Chester / Wrexham area is a real bonus (for occasional in-person working and faster collaboration).

Engagement model

Contract / hourly initially, with a view to going full-time within 6 months (subject to delivery progress and funding).

Benefits / why this is worth doing

Join a fast-growing startup environment operating at the sharp end of AI-enabled product delivery.

A chance to shape products at the stage where smart decisions create outsized impact.

Work closely with senior leads (Tim Olsen and Simon Grice) and an AI-enabled dev team, move quickly, ship often, improve constantly.

Flexibility at the start (contract basis), with a clear pathway to full-time.

Be part of the momentum, a genuine slice of the AI future as it moves forward, with real influence on what gets built and how.