Lead Product Manager

Lead Product Manager Overview

This is a senior product leadership opportunity at Valtech, a company focused on experience innovation and digital transformation. The role is aimed at someone who can lead complex, uncertain product work, influence strategy, and help shape the wider product discipline while working with multidisciplinary teams and senior client stakeholders.

What you will do

• Lead the most complex and ambiguous agile product initiatives and programmes, often involving multiple teams and specialist disciplines.
• Work closely with Valtech’s internal teams of developers, designers and testing engineers to help deliver innovative, high-quality products and services.
• Ensure product teams are solving the right problems by aligning delivery to business goals, user needs and a strong commercial rationale.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, strategists and delivery leads, and partner with senior and executive-level client stakeholders to define product and service direction.
• Clarify priorities, test assumptions, agree success measures and help move ideas from concept through to successful implementation.
• Take a leadership role within programme teams, supporting and guiding other Product Managers as well as the broader delivery team.
• Contribute to commercial activity by helping with pitches, proposals and business development efforts.
• Play a part in shaping the Product practice itself by improving strategy, craft and capability across the team.
• Coach and support colleagues so they can continue developing their skills and careers.
• Lead by example in the use of AI, embedding it into your own product practice, encouraging better AI adoption across the team, and helping create AI-powered products and capabilities for clients and their users.

What the role is looking for

• Strong passion for creating excellent digital products and services.
• A proven history of delivering products and services from start to finish, with clear evidence of results and impact.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders, including C-suite leaders.
• Comfort working in partnership with colleagues and clients in a collaborative environment.
• A test-and-learn approach and a genuine commitment to ongoing improvement.
• Ability to manage competing priorities from multiple senior stakeholders while keeping delivery moving.
• Confidence operating in ambiguity and switching between strategic thinking and detailed workstreams depending on what is needed.
• Practical experience using AI tools and technologies in day-to-day product management work, plus confidence promoting AI-enabled ways of working within a team.
• Experience building and launching AI-powered products or capabilities for organisations and their users.
• Ability to create your own tools, scripts or workflows that extend AI beyond a standard conversational interface.
• Broad exposure across the product or service lifecycle, from discovery and strategy through build, run and optimisation, ideally within commerce.
• Deep experience in at least one part of the lifecycle or within a particular industry.
• Experience selling work or helping secure investment for product ideas.
• Background leading teams in large-scale, ambiguous or challenging environments.
• Experience coaching teams and turning underperforming groups into high-performing agile teams.
• Ability to zoom out, understand complex systems, identify leverage points and break down silos.
• Experience mentoring Product Managers or managing them directly.
• Applicants are still encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every requirement or have gaps in their experience.

Culture and inclusion

Valtech says it is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds feel supported to grow and succeed. The company highlights that it values diverse perspectives and wants to create an equitable environment where everyone belongs. It also notes that reasonable accommodations can be requested during the interview process.

Benefits and working arrangement

• Permanent employment in the UK.
• Hybrid working.
• A competitive pay package.
• Career growth opportunities, including international mobility.
• Professional development support.
• Learning and development resources, including access to advanced tools, training and industry specialists.

Application process

After you apply, Valtech’s Talent Acquisition team will review your application. If your background matches what they are looking for, they will contact you about the next steps. The company also warns applicants to be careful about recruitment fraud and says official emails will come from addresses ending in @valtech.com.

The application form asks whether you will need visa sponsorship now or in the future to work in the UK, but the posting does not say whether sponsorship is offered or not.

About Valtech

Valtech describes itself as an experience innovation company that helps brands unlock value in a digital world. It works at the intersection of data, AI, creativity and technology, and supports major organisations such as L’Oréal, Mars, Audi, P&G, Volkswagen and Dolby. The company says its people are central to its success and that it aims to provide a workplace where employees can thrive, grow and innovate.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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