The Business of Fashion is experiencing an exciting period of fast growth, and we’re looking for a talented Product Manager to play a key role in delivering innovative products to our BoF community.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a focused and energetic teammate who has worked closely with design and development teams to deliver successful digital products, who is looking to gain more experience with a smart and committed team.
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 colleagues from across the business
- Relentless focus on learning fast to continuously qualify user need
- Driven to build products which delight users
- Intrigued about Fashion and a hyper-engaged community of users
- Obsessed by the latest product and tech trends
Responsibilities
- Help decide what we should build:
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- 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 the business/customer value behind each initiative, own the value proposition for your users and act as the domain expert and voice of the user
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- Coordinate product delivery:
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- 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
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- Ensure quality:
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- Ensure solutions meet the required level of quality alongside our QA team
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Experience must include:
- 1 year minimum product management experience
- Obsessed by users and delivering value
- Able to identify and prioritise future development tasks
- Able to work with multiple stakeholders / teams
- Experience creating visual examples of simple and intuitive user interfaces
- Working with a development team to deliver websites or applications
- Working within an agile development environment
- Fashion industry or subscriptions/SAAS 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
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Commitment to quality and continuous improvement