The Business of Fashion is experiencing an exciting period of fast growth, and we’re looking for a talented Junior Product Manager to play a key role in delivering an innovative roadmap to our BoF Professional members.
We are looking for a focused and energetic teammate who can manage the roadmap and backlog, produce great product definition, and work closely developers & UX designers to create and deliver delightful features via web, tablet, mobile and mobile app.
We’re hoping to find someone who shares our values and way of working; if this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you…
- Smart, curious and driven to learn
- Naturally collaborative and relish working alongside an experienced Senior Product Manager and with colleagues across the business
- Relentless focus on learning fast to continuously qualify user need
- Driven to build products which delight users and continuously drive user engagement
- Intrigued about Fashion and a hyper-engaged community of users
- Obsessed by the latest product and tech trends
You will work closely with your Senior Product Manager Mentor and with teams across the business(including commercial, marketing and editorial) to deliver continuous improvements to our existing platform.
Responsibilities
Working closely with your Senior Product Manager Mentor:
- Help decide what we should build:
- Analyse data and product KPIs to understand users and user behaviour, and measure what works
- Work alongside colleagues from multiple departments (including marketing, commercial and editorial) to understand business needs
- Suggest and undertake product discovery techniques to bring users closer to decisions about what we should build, and validate the solutions promising best product-market-fit
- Articulate business/customer value behind each initiative, own the value proposition for your users and act as the domain expert and voice of the user
- Coordinate product delivery:
- Continuously prioritise solutions which deliver the most impact for the business
- Work closely with our UX/UI design team to define user journeys & ideate/wireframe new features
- Distil initiatives into units of work for the development team, with great user stories and definition
- Collaborate with Engineers and Designers during development to deliver continuous releases via agile sprints
- Manage communication to ensure stakeholders are well informed about your projects
- Ensure quality:
- Ensure solutions meet the required level of quality alongside our QA team
Experience must include:
- 1 year minimum product management experience
- Obsessed by users and delivering value
- Ability to identify and prioritise future development tasks using data and broader business requirements
- Able to work with multiple stakeholders/teams
- Experience designing simple and intuitive user interfaces – ability to create visual examples
- Working with a development team to deliver websites or applications
- Working within an agile development environment
Fashion industry or subscriptions product experience a benefit, but not required.
Skills we would like you to have:
- Practical knowledge of the entire product lifecycle
- Bonus points if you have a working knowledge of dual-track Discovery and Delivery
- Positive, pragmatic and collaborative
- Tenacious problem solving
- Comfortable with technology including customer journey mapping, launches etc
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Commitment to quality and continuous improvement