Principal Product Manager

Role overview

Job responsibilities

• Partner with C-suite and founder-level stakeholders on rapid builds, aligning expectations, workstreams, trade-offs, and business outcomes.
• Move product ideas beyond pilots into production systems, balancing user desirability, technical feasibility, and economic viability.
• Establish market and competitive landscapes, go-to-market strategies, business cases, and economic models.
• Lead product, design, and engineering pods and integrate AI across discovery, research, and delivery.
• Provide hands-on leadership to multidisciplinary teams and lead complex programmes across multiple workstreams.
• Own programme strategy, roadmap, scope, and outcomes from end to end.
• Shape client engagements, author proposals, deliver executive pitches, and run strategic discovery workshops.
• Contribute to account growth targets by identifying new engagements and revenue streams.
• Help scale local capabilities and an inclusive culture; create case studies, points of view, and reusable regional frameworks.

Technical qualifications

• At least 8 years of product leadership driving launches, commercialisation, and production-scale growth of digital products and platforms.
• Experience building and leading high-performing multidisciplinary product organisations.
• End-to-end expertise in product discovery, value propositions, rapid cross-functional delivery, go-to-market strategy, monetisation, and product-market fit.
• Experience using research, market trends, customer insights, and competitive intelligence to identify growth opportunities.
• Expertise developing value propositions for digital and AI products and testing desirability, feasibility, and viability.
• Commercial acumen spanning pre-sales, engagement structuring, unit economics, monetisation, and organic account expansion.
• Ability to define strategy and vision at company, portfolio, and product levels and translate them into roadmaps and value-based measures.
• Ability to advise on customer-centric product organisations and introduce product management, value-delivery, and measurement practices.
• Fluency using AI tools and platforms for market research, discovery, prototyping, specification, automated testing, and performance analytics.

Professional qualifications

• Build relationships with C-suite executives and confidently lead discussions across technology, product, business, and transformation.
• Bring consultative selling experience, diagnosing client needs, co-creating solutions, and building trusted-advisor relationships.
• Demonstrate storytelling, negotiation, and workshop facilitation skills with executive and entrepreneurial stakeholders.
• The role values external practice visibility through conference speaking, industry panels, or publications.
• Bring a collaborative builder mindset and comfort helping establish a new business in an AI-enabled market.

Working model

• Hybrid working model with three days per week on-site.

Learning and benefits

• Career development is supported through development programs, interactive tools, and colleagues.
• Listed benefits include private medical and travel insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, life assurance, pension, personal development budget, 25 days of holiday, and a ride-to-work scheme; regional benefits may vary.

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