[Hiring] Principal Product Manager @IRIS Recruitment

Role Description

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead a strategically important product area from its earliest stages. This is a hands-on, senior role with significant autonomy, working closely with Engineering and Design to shape the product, make difficult calls, and turn ambitious ideas into customer and commercial outcomes.

Join a team building new capabilities for our customers. This is a genuine 0-to-1 opportunity: you'll work with customers, designers, and engineers to understand important problems, explore new possibilities, and build experiences that make complex financial work feel much simpler.

What will you be doing?

• Own a meaningful product area from problem discovery through adoption
• Develop a deep understanding of customers and their underlying needs
• Identify and prioritise the problems worth solving
• Shape product direction with Design and Engineering
• Turn ideas into prototypes and testable experiences quickly
• Work directly with customers throughout discovery and delivery
• Use qualitative and quantitative evidence to guide decisions
• Launch, measure and improve what you build
• Make thoughtful trade-offs in an ambiguous environment, and change direction when the evidence changes
• Take responsibility for outcomes rather than simply completing a roadmap

Qualifications

• Experience as a Principal Product Manager, Product Lead or similar, and have worked on a product from an early stage or led a meaningful 0-to-1 initiative
• Product experience in one of: Accounting/Bookkeeping or Payments
• Enjoy starting with an ambiguous problem and creating structure
• Strong product judgement and can explain decisions clearly
• Get close to customers and use research to shape what you build
• Comfortable prototyping with AI-assisted development tools, and use AI to improve the quality and speed of your work
• Work effectively with engineers and designers, and connect product decisions to customer and commercial outcomes
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
• Curious about how complex systems work and how they could be made simpler

How you work

You're likely to enjoy this role if you start with the customer, prefer learning through testing over debating hypotheticals, have strong opinions but low ego, and see AI and technology as opportunities to explore rather than constraints to accept.

It would be great if you also have

A good understanding of the accounting process and general ledger from the inside, not just in theory. That means either you're a qualified accountant (ACCA, ICAEW, ATT, AAT or equivalent) with hands-on practice or industry experience, or you're an entrepreneur who has run your own company's books yourself, reconciling the bank, filing VAT returns, keeping the general ledger straight and knows what good bookkeeping actually looks like because you've done it, not delegated it.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Programme
• State of the art IT equipment
• Volunteer days

Company Description

The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.