[Hiring] Lead Product Manager @Immersive

Role Description

Immersive is hiring! Could you be our next Product Manager? We’re looking for an experienced, customer-centric and data-driven individual to join our Product team as a Lead Product Manager.

As a voice and advocate for Product excellence within Immersive, you will be a key driver of the evolution of our flagship Immersive One platform, ensuring we continue to delight our users and expand our market leadership.

Reporting directly to our Chief Product Officer and based out of the UK, you will be responsible for defining the vision and prioritising the initiatives for your product area to achieve maximum business outcome. You love to go through customer and user feedback, research, prioritise, and validate your assumptions with data.

You will be instrumental in shaping the future of our products, guiding the end-to-end product development lifecycle from discovery to launch and beyond. Your product output will drive measurable business outcomes that shape the future of hands-on security training for enterprises around the globe.

Our most successful product managers here bring a potent mix of strategic vision, user empathy, and analytical rigor to their work, while constantly expanding their knowledge through cross-team collaboration. You should be the sparring partner for the Product Designers and Engineer teams with a close eye for scalability and commerciality.

Additionally, you will build and leverage relationships with Go To Market, Product Marketing and our Cyber teams.

As a senior individual contributor in the team, your main responsibilities will include:

• Become an expert in how the major elements of the product work, providing product support to Sales and Customer Success, demonstrating product features and eliciting user feedback.
• Drive a data driven, analytical approach to prioritising and refining new features and product enhancements that meet customer and business needs.
• Set, track and optimise success metrics to ensure that deliverables are defined and measurable.
• Prioritise and organise features and technical requirements for your product area, ensuring a focus is maintained on delivering value to customers.
• Ensure a clear Product Roadmap is created, managed and communicated so that development work, marketing and release can be planned. Work closely with the marketing and sales teams to ensure effective go-to-market.
• Collaborate cross-product with other Product Managers to ensure any inter-team dependencies are taken into account during planning, and to share best practice.
• Inspire the Product delivery teams, ensuring they have the rationale and motivation required to deliver the product vision.
• Develop user stories with agreed acceptance criteria. Work with agile Design and Engineering teams to ensure stories are correctly refined, technical constraints, dependencies and prerequisites are identified and that the product vision is realised.
• Ensure a balance of Technical Debt, feature development and Technical Prerequisite work is undertaken in a responsible and timely manner to ensure feature delivery and product performance.
• Develop and maintain strong market awareness and deep understanding of the cyber landscape.

Qualifications

• Background in enterprise or SaaS technology – owning the launch of new tech products/solutions to market.
• Experience working in a Cybersecurity company would also be very advantageous.
• Proven experience taking ownership and accountability for product marketing for key products/solutions, with the ability to be hands-on and operate autonomously.
• You’ll be comfortable engaging and negotiating with stakeholders cross-culturally across the business, leading conversations and influencing decision-making processes.
• Ability to work in a fast moving, scale-up environment, where processes are still being defined.
• Previous experience working with Product teams, and experience of how customer/prospect feedback is taken back into Product and roadmap planning.
• A solid foundation of technical knowledge to build upon, and yet be straightforward and “jargon-free” in your approach to translating product specs into consumable prospect messaging and sales enablement.
• A nice to have but not essential would be some understanding of cybersecurity, application security, DevSecOps, and risk, as well as any experience working with channel partners.

Benefits

• Time off, flexible and remote working so you can work when is best for you, includes 25 days annual leave + 2 volunteering days and birthday day off.
• Look after your family and yourself with enhanced parental leave, mindfulness groups, critical illness cover.
• Career and learning development through the platform and our ‘Learn Anything’ fund.
• Share in the companies success with share options, sales incentives and Recognition & Rewards for doing great work and living our values and behaviours.
• Informal or formal flexible working options, e.g. flexible start and finish times, reduced hours, job share, remote working.
• We’re a sociable, tight-knit team with monthly socials, and sports clubs. Our socials have included everything from pottery painting and paper mask making, to movie nights and escape rooms.
• While this is a remote position, we do all meet in our EMEA HQ on a bi-annual basis and regularly in person in region.