Product Manager

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About Secondmind

Secondmind builds data-efficient Engineering AI software that helps teams make better design and performance optimization decisions faster. Our product reduces simulation and testing requirements without compromising quality, accelerating development and enabling more sustainable engineering teams.

Our positive working culture is founded on a collaborative environment that encourages teamwork and innovation. We foster open communication and cross-functional collaboration, enabling diverse teams to work together to solve complex challenges. Our flexible workplace plan ensures a healthy work-life balance, accommodating various working styles and personal needs, whether through remote work options or adaptable schedules.

We also prioritize personal and professional growth by offering development opportunities, including training and mentorship. This nurturing environment empowers our employees to thrive, continuously learn, and contribute meaningfully to advancing system design and calibration with our data-efficient machine learning solutions.

Founded in 2016 and supported by investors such as Mazda Motor Corporation, Amadeus Capital, Atlantic Bridge and Cambridge Innovation Capital, Secondmind was recently listed in the Barclays Eagle Labs Ones to Watch AI:100. As well as being recognized with the Automotive Testing Technology International 'Alternative Powertrain Test Innovation of the Year Award 2024'; selected for the Tech Nation Future Fifty scale-up program, and named by Bloomberg as one of the UK’s 25 Startups to Watch 2024.

About the role

As a Product Manager at Secondmind, you'll connect what engineers need with what our technology can do.

You'll work with our Product Management team to build Engineering AI software, powered by our advanced machine learning system, that make engineers' jobs easier. You'll set the product strategy and turn it into a clear backlog. You'll guide teams across the business, and translate complex technical capabilities into tools engineers can actually use to design and calibrate systems.

You'll talk to customers and use what you learn to shape our products, understanding what our customers need today and anticipating what the industry will need in the future. And you'll bring people together to solve problems - helping us line up our roadmap with our business goals, and build technology that makes a real difference in industries like automotive.

What will you be responsible for?

• Product Strategy Development: Develop and continuously shape product strategy based on customer needs, market opportunities, and business goals
• Product Strategy Communication: Champion a product-led culture, advocate for and share the product vision and strategy across the organization and with external stakeholders, building conviction and alignment around where the product is headed and why.
• Product Requirements Discovery and Prioritization: Engage with stakeholders and closely collaborate with our UX team to discover and gather product requirements, make them clear to Secondmind technical teams, and define their priorities based on business need.
• Roadmap Development and Product Backlog Ownership: Develop and maintain the product roadmap. Build, manage, prioritise and deliver the backlog items.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with the Engineering, AI Science,UX, Business Development, and Operations to ensure cohesive product development and delivery.
• Peer Collaboration: Work alongside people in our Product team (Product Manager and UX team) to align priorities across product lines, share context and best practice, and maintain a cohesive, consistent overall product strategy.
• Market Analysis: In collaboration with marketing, business development and external consultants; conduct market research to identify trends, user needs, and competitive landscape to inform product decisions.
• Performance Metrics: Establish and track key product metrics to assess performance and drive continuous improvement, informing future enhancements.
  
  

What skills, experience, and qualifications do you need to succeed in this role?

Essential

• Proven experience as a Product Manager/Product Owner, ideally in a technical or B2B software environment
• Strong customer focus — skilled at gathering, prioritizing, and translating user needs into product requirements
• Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum) and tools (e.g. JIRA), managing product roadmaps and backlogs
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to align cross-functional teams including engineering, sales, and marketing
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, comfortable making decisions with incomplete or ambiguous information
• Experience conducting market research and competitive analysis to inform product strategy
• Comfortable sharing ownership of a wider product portfolio with another Product Manager, keeping priorities and roadmaps aligned across product lines
  
  

Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role, and candidates must have the full right to work in the UK without restriction.

Our culture - What we can offer you

We offer a working environment that is inclusive, stimulates innovation and continuous learning, and that thrives on growth and change.

Our culture is underpinned by our values; they are what we stand for, part of our DNA. They help us to attract and retain the right talent and customers, help us make the right decisions and clarify how we should all behave and treat one another, they are:

• Delight every customer (Customers)
• No bar too high (Excellence)
• Give more than take (Sustainability)
• Make the impossible, possible (Innovation)
• Celebrate differences, act as one (Inclusion)
  
  

We also offer a number of benefits including:

• Competitive salary - reviewed annually
• 25 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays
• TGIF: The last Friday of every month is a half day for our employees
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance of 4x salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Eyecare Policy
• Dental Cash Plan
• Stock Options (where applicable)
• Free 24 hour access on-site gym
• Discount Shopping & Wellbeing Platform
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Values Award Scheme
• Cambridge Botanic Garden membership
• Social events, game nights and sports groups