Lead Product Manager

xdesign; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 days leave

Private medical insurance

Enhanced parental and adoption leave

Financial coaching

5% pension match

40 hours of paid learning

AI capability training

Job summary

xdesign is seeking a senior product leader to drive the product-management practice and client engagements across industries. You will guide products from research and discovery through delivery and iteration while coaching product managers to achieve customer-focused outcomes.

Responsibilities include leading PM teams, establishing effective practices, removing blockers, directing resource allocations, and guiding AI-enabled strategies with cross-functional teams and clients.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product-focused engagements in a consultancy or client-facing environment.
• Strong knowledge of PM frameworks, continuous discovery and continuous delivery.
• Experience conducting product research and using evidence to support value propositions.
• Demonstrated experience developing, coaching or managing Product Managers.
• An empathetic leadership style and passion for improving the product-management discipline.
• Practical experience applying AI to products with understanding of customer and business value.
• Awareness of AI-specific considerations including evaluation, trust, data governance and responsible use.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of Product Managers, including recruitment, mentoring and career development.
• Establish effective product-management practices, ways of working and progression pathways.
• Act as an escalation point, helping remove internal and client-side blockers.
• Support the allocation and resourcing of Product Managers across engagements.
• Lead clients through digital transformation, building trusted relationships with key decision-makers.
• Shape product strategies with senior leaders, designers, engineers and client teams.
• Identify training needs and help the wider team develop stronger product capability.

Skills

Product leadership

PM frameworks

Continuous discovery

Continuous delivery

Product research

Coaching PMs

Empathetic leadership

AI in products

AI governance

Client-facing

Job description

Role overview

Lead product management practice and client engagements across a range of industries, technologies and domains. You will guide products from research and market analysis through discovery, delivery and iteration, while coaching product managers and helping clients reach valuable, customer-focused outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of Product Managers, including recruitment, mentoring and career development.
• Establish effective product-management practices, ways of working and progression pathways.
• Act as an escalation point, helping remove internal and client-side blockers.
• Support the allocation and resourcing of Product Managers across engagements.Lead clients through digital transformation, building trusted relationships with key decision-makers.
• Shape product strategies with senior leaders, designers, engineers and client teams.
• Identify training needs and help the wider team develop stronger product capability.

Requirements

• Recent experience leading product-focused engagements in a consultancy or client-facing environment.
• Strong knowledge of product-management frameworks, continuous discovery and continuous delivery.
• Experience conducting product research and using evidence to support value propositions.
• Demonstrated experience developing, coaching or managing Product Managers.
• An empathetic leadership style and passion for improving the product-management discipline.
• Practical experience applying AI to products, services or delivery, with an understanding of customer and business value.
• Awareness of AI-specific considerations including evaluation, trust, human oversight, data, governance and responsible use.

Nice to have

• Experience experimenting with AI-native product development, automation, agents or new tools for research, prototyping, analysis, documentation or decision-making.

Benefits and work setup

Flexible hybrid or remote working is available, with occasional travel to client sites or team offices.

• 35 days of leave including bank holidays
• private medical insurance
• enhanced parental and adoption leave
• financial coaching
• a 5% pension match
• 40 hours of paid learning and development
• Training is available to help build practical AI capability