Product Manager
Xantura · London, Southwark ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Category
- Product
Product Manager at Xantura owning the roadmap for OneView, a data & insight product the company uses to reduce societal inequality. Day to day they run sprint planning and Scrum ceremonies, prioritise the backlog, define delivery metrics, and shape product strategy alongside the Director of Platform in a small, scaling team.
We're hiring a Product Manager to join our growing team and drive value and rigour into our roadmap for our OneView product, which is used to support Xantura's mission to reduce societal inequality through improved use of data & insight.
We're a small business and we're scaling, already grown massively over the past year. That means we want someone with a broad experience, able to contribute at both a strategic and operational level and work effectively with ambiguity. Initially, this will be the only dedicated Product Manager in the company and so represents a genuine opportunity to shape and develop the function, working closely alongside the Director of Platform
Product Delivery
- Set clear priorities and desired outcomes for sprint planning, backlog refinement and reviews, ensuring work supports the product roadmap.
- Resolve product blockers by making timely scope and priority decisions, clarifying stakeholder needs and documenting recurring product issues.
- Act as the Scrum Master in leading ceremonies and coaching on good practices.
- Define and interpret product and delivery measures, including adoption, value, completion and quality, and use the evidence to adjust priorities.
- Communicate the product direction, priorities, requirements and dependencies within and across the teams.
- Maintain a transparent roadmap and ordered backlog, protecting teams from unclear requests and unnecessary changes in priority.
- Manage product documentation, decision records and stakeholder updates.
Product Strategy
- Own a designated part of the Platform roadmap, tied to defined business outcomes.
- Translate company objectives, customer needs and commercial priorities into a clear product strategy, roadmap and measurable outcomes.
- Support the Director of Platform with product planning, cross-team coordination, forecasting and reporting.
- Resolve competing product priorities and cross-team dependencies, making or recommending trade-offs based on value, risk and evidence.
- Own backlog prioritisation, requirement clarity, acceptance criteria and forward product planning, ensuring work is valuable and ready for delivery.
- Develop and embed proportionate product discovery, prioritisation and decision-making practices as the business scales.
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
- Solid experience as a Product Manager, ideally within a data-rich, analytics product.
- Business awareness. You can see past your own team to how the work supports wider company goals.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain new idea and reasoning clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines
- Experience of multiple software delivery models
- Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to step outside a fixed remit. We're small and scaling, so the role will flex.
- A proactive problem-solver's mindset, analytical, with a keen eye for inconsistencies.
- A passion for social impact. You're excited about what we're doing and driven to help Xantura succeed.
- Experience coaching teams through change, transformation and improvement.
- Experience working within an Agentic SDLC environment would be a plus
- PM and Scrum certifications are welcome but not essential.
Key competencies
- A passion for solving customer needs with technology
- Structured and analytical in your approach to work
- Adaptability and pragmatism over process for its own sake.
- Business and commercial awareness.
- Bring a growth mindset to the team
- Persistent in bringing strong evidence
- Empathy, collaboration and stakeholder management.
- Smart and restlessly curious to learn
- The ability to influence without authority.
Location – This is a hybrid role based in our office in London (Borough). You would be expected to be able to work from the office at least 1-2 days per week. Some travel is also required for on-site client engagements as needed.
- Competitive salary reviewed annually
- Work for a passionate, mission-driven company solving society’s big problems
- Work flexible hours around life commitments with a focus on delivering company value rather than hours worked
- Ability to work remotely (excluding face-to-face Team Meetings and client meetings)
- Training and development opportunities
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Generous enhanced parental leave policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flu Vaccinations,
- Eye Test and contribution towards Glasses for VDU use
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Remote GP access
- Counselling/therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Medical second opinions