Product Manager

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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.

What are we looking for?

• 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.

• 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.

What can we offer you?

• 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