Product Manager (Product-Led)

MadeByAI; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

MadeByAI is seeking a product-led operator in the North West/Chester-Wrexham area with online/remote options. You will shape products daily, balance strong UI/UX decisions, and collaborate with an AI-enabled development team to resolve bugs and drive backlog clarity.

This role focuses on real apps, not a pure engineering position, and offers a flexible engagement model with potential full-time progression. You’ll work closely with Tim Olsen and Simon Grice, triaging issues, writing crisp

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and improving real digital products (apps).
• Strong backlog management with clear tickets and acceptance criteria.
• Strong UI/UX judgement to improve flows and make products feel right.
• Experience working close to delivery; not strategy-only product management.
• Not a full-time engineering role, but technical enough to understand issues and work with an AI dev team.
• Understand API behaviour (requests/responses, auth, status codes).
• Diagnose data/state issues causing UI discrepancies or data drops.
• Write strong bug reports with steps to reproduce, expected vs actual, env details, impact and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Product decisions and backlog ownership to define unambiguous outcomes.
• Triage and turn messy issues into crisp tickets with clear done criteria.
• Diagnose bugs with the AI dev team and guide resolution with clear intent and validation steps.
• Write external specs for larger work to maintain coherence across features.
• Ensure scope discipline to prevent overbuild and miscommunication with clients.

Skills

Product ownership

Backlog management

UI/UX judgement

Delivery collaboration

Technical understanding

API behaviour

Bug reporting

Debugging real app issues

Job description

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.