Product Manager

Product Manager

Would you enjoy delivering innovative products that make a difference to our customers?

Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex problems and deliver solutions?

Location: Oxford (Hybrid)

Join our Team

You’ll be working on SSRN, currently one of the biggest global preprint platforms, established in 1994, and recently acquired by Elsevier. SSRN’s mission is to rapidly share early-stage research and empower global scholars to help shape a better future. We host early-stage research, across a variety of disciplines, aiming to accelerate the dissemination of open science.

You will become part of a global team (SSRN has headquarters in New York), working with multiple business and technology stakeholders, as well as connecting with our researchers and organisational customers around the world.

The team work with internal business stakeholders as well as external customers to deliver new features and enhancements which offer value to our end customers, using a data-driven methodology within the discovery pipeline and an agile delivery framework.

Take ownership for our future product development

As a Product Manager, you will collaborate with cross-functional technical teams to validate initial ideas for customers using data-driven methodology. You will partner with our customers to become their champion by understanding their changing needs and ensuring we provide value through our products. You will follow the creation of your innovative products from initial conception through to market.

Responsibilities

• Interacting with customers to understand their needs and generate requirements to deliver product enhancements for expectations and market changes
• Developing clear go-to -market launch plans through coordinated business strategic planning with external cross-functional customer facing teams
• Supporting the go-to-market strategy by communicating customer requirements to stakeholders and supporting launches with queries, training and planning
• Creating and communicating our product vision and road-map plan to build growth opportunities to senior stakeholders
• Driving solutions for complicated design challenges by managing key end-to-end life-cycle components from planning to release
• Utilizing Data-Driven Decision-Making and Analysis to gain product insights and drive solutions for business problems and innovation

Requirements

• Have excellent experience in digital Product Management.
• Be able to document and write clear requirements using user stories for complex features or products, as part of our agile Sprint methodology.
• Hands on experience in UX and Design highly desirable, such as using Figma for wireframe prototypes.
• Demonstrate experience taking ownership for the full product life cycle from conceptualization to execution to post-release management.
• Have the ability to build relationships with customers to understand future needs and requirements.
• Have experience in using an analytical, data-driven approach to identify areas for improvement, experience or willingness to learn using tools such as Adobe Analytics, Hotjar and Pendo.
• Have a thorough understanding of the Software Delivery Life-Cycle processes in an Agile environment.
• Be able to document and write clear requirements for complex features or products.
• Enjoy collaborating with teams to design a strategy to solve problems and implement solutions.
• Demonstrate excellent written, verbal and presentation skills including communicating complex technical content to a range of audiences.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, family leave and tuition reimbursement, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.

• Working remotely from home or any other work location
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day

Working with us

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.

Working for you

At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

About Us

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.