Product Manager - Search

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Job summary

Rightmove in London is seeking a Product Manager for Search to own the product strategy, guiding discovery and delivery of features that power the core search experience.

You will collaborate with product designers, researchers, and engineers in a hybrid setup, with autonomy to shape the direction of the Explore & Find pillars and deliver value to millions of users.

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end delivery of software products in a technology-led company.
• Proven ability to run product discovery with stakeholders and define opportunities.
• Strong analytical skills combining quantitative data and qualitative insights.

Responsibilities

• Own and monitor the products and functionality across the search experience, measured against defined KPIs.
• Create and validate business cases with clear definition of opportunity, costs and benefits.
• Proactively contribute to initiatives that improve customer or consumer experience and support others.
• Triages and responds to stakeholder requests in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with Product Designers and Researchers to define the approach.
• Work with engineers to understand technology limitations and development options.
• Maintain a backlog aligned with business goals and prioritise with cross-functional teams.
• Help shape strategic direction with Head of Product based on analysis and insights.

Skills

Product discovery

Stakeholder management

Autonomy

End-to-end delivery

Data-driven decisions

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Job description

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.

We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market.

The Role: Product Manager - Search
Location: London office / Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Reporting to:Senior Product Manager

The Role:

We are on a mission to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove eachmonth and our website and apps receive over 140 million visits per month. Joiningthe Search Team in Rightmove, you’ll make this mission possible by givingconsumers confidence to make their move through best-in-class property searchcapabilities.

This team looks after our flagship consumer experience, Search, and forms afundamental part of why consumers love our brand. We want to keep building onthese fundamentals and also make sure that we move with consumer behaviour inproperty search by being on the forefront of innovation.The Product Development team at Rightmove plays a pivotal role in delivering theoverall consumer and customer digital experience underpinning the Rightmovebusiness. We recognise that to deliver the best products and features for ourcustomers and consumers we need to work together effectively as a healthy, highperforming team. We work collaboratively across a mix of product and centralisedteams, together working towards Rightmove’s strategy.The Product Manager role reports into a Senior Product Manager in our ConsumerDomain, responsible for our Explore & Find pillars. This is a key role managing ourcore proposition, search, which is central to the business. The successful individualwill need to be comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy.

A Typical Week as a Product Manager Might Involve :

• Own and monitor the products and functionality across the search experience, measured against the objectives and KPIs you define
• Create and validate business cases that underpin the product/initiative, with clear definition of opportunity, costs, and benefit
• Proactively contribute to initiatives that aim to improve our customer or consumer experience, both identifying your own contribution and supporting others in theirs
• Initiate and/or undertake any analysis to highlight any impacts to systems or business processes
• Take an active role in the experience discovery of initiatives and products, working closely with Product Designers and Researchers to define the approach
• Collaborate with user experience specialists and visual designers to re-work existing experiences, as well as creating new ones
• Spend time understanding what motivates our users and ensuring they are up to date with industry insights
• Generate unique ideas, resourceful in identifying opportunities, and encourages innovation within the team
• Works with engineers and technical architects to understand technology limitations, recommendations and development options
• Accountable for requirements definition and delivery of solutions across your product/initiatives
• Maintain a backlog of improvements for your area, clearly describing how they support our overall business goals and work with the Senior Product Manager & Head of Product to prioritise these alongside the wider priorities for the domain and product function
• Handle inbound requests coming to this central product area by triaging and responding to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Build relationships across different domains and functions of the business to identify impactful opportunities that span more than the Search product.
• Work with Senior Product Manager & the Head of Product to help shape the strategic direction, vision and objectives for Search based on clear rational, analysis and insights

We are looking for someone who:

• Can lead product discovery, culminating in clear recommendations and, where relevant, the best approaches for delivery
• Operate with autonomy and influence, effectively managing relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on goals
• Has experience in the successful end-to-end delivery of software products in a technology-led company.
• Takes responsibility for a product and its delivery and monitoring with an autonomous delivery team
• Makes data informed decisions, leveraging quantitative and qualitative insights
• Is passionate about delivering quality experience and software to end users
• Has excellent organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to multitask and make tough calls
• Effectively manages relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, alignment on product goals, and collaboration throughout the product lifecycle
• Sets and measures clear, realistic and timely goals
• Has experience with a Search product at scale or another consumer-facing product at a similar scale to Rightmove