Product Manager
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£55,000
(£28.21 per hour)
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Description
Role Overview
The Product Manager will lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of MRI’s Early Years and Integrated Youth Support Services solutions. Although titled Product Manager, the role combines strategic Product Management with hands‑on Product Ownership, requiring both long‑term vision and day‑to‑day delivery leadership.
You will act as the voice of the customer, ensuring our products meet statutory requirements, align with Local Authority workflows, and deliver high‑quality, intuitive user experiences. Working closely with engineering, QA, UX, customer success, and implementation teams, you will drive product quality, innovation, and measurable customer value.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap:
The Product Manager will lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of MRI’s Early Years and Integrated Youth Support Services solutions. Although titled Product Manager, the role combines strategic Product Management with hands‑on Product Ownership, requiring both long‑term vision and day‑to‑day delivery leadership.
You will act as the voice of the customer, ensuring our products meet statutory requirements, align with Local Authority workflows, and deliver high‑quality, intuitive user experiences. Working closely with engineering, QA, UX, customer success, and implementation teams, you will drive product quality, innovation, and measurable customer value.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap:
- Define and maintain the product vision and roadmap for Early Years and IYSS solutions.
- Monitor policy changes, market trends, and customer insights to identify opportunities for enhancement and innovation.
- Prioritise features and improvements using evidence‑based decision‑making and clear value assessment.
- Own and refine the product backlog, producing clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with engineering and QA teams to ensure high‑quality, timely delivery.
- Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release readiness activities.
- Validate product increments to ensure they meet customer expectations and statutory requirements.
- Build strong relationships with Local Authorities, Early Years providers, youth support teams, and sector partners.
- Lead discovery sessions, user research, and feedback loops to understand real‑world workflows and challenges.
- Represent the voice of the customer across the organisation and champion user‑centred design.
- Ensure products remain compliant with DfE guidance, funding rules, safeguarding frameworks, and statutory processes.
- Work with QA to strengthen domain‑specific testing and improve release quality.
- Analyse product performance, defects, and customer issues to drive continuous improvement and reduce operational risk.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
Skills & Experience:
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success on go‑to‑market activities and customer engagement.
- Provide subject‑matter expertise for bids, demos, and internal training.
- Contribute to knowledge‑sharing, process improvement, and best‑practice development across the Education division.
Skills & Experience:
- Strong understanding of Local Authority Early Years and/or Integrated Youth Support Services processes, funding models, and statutory requirements.
- Experience working with software solutions in the education or public sector.
- Ability to translate complex requirements into clear, actionable product deliverables.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
- Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner, ideally within SaaS or enterprise software.
- Direct experience working within a Local Authority education or youth services team (Early Years, IYSS, SEND, Admissions, or similar).
- Customer‑focused mindset with a passion for improving outcomes for children and young people.
- Proactive, organised, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
- Collaborative team player who builds trust and influence across functions.
- Confident communicator who can engage effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Thrives in a fast‑paced environment with evolving requirements and competing demands.
- We want our teams to love working here, so we’ve created some incredible perks for you to enjoy:
- We want our staff to love working here, and so we’ve created a few unique perks such as office breakfasts, quarterly lunches and virtual social events. Additionally, we value your input in your employee experience and have employee-led groups such as our DEI committee, employee resource groups such as Women and Allies, and our Pride Event Group
From the day we opened our doors, MRI Software has built flexible, game-changing real estate software that powers thriving communities and helps make the world a better place to live, work and play. Fulfilling that mission is only possible because of one thing: exceptional people. People like you!
Our people-first approach to PropTech is defining a new industry standard for client experiences that, quite frankly, can’t be duplicated. Experiences that deliver real value every day. And we know those experiences begin with our people.
We believe MRI is more than just a workplace; it’s a connected community of people who truly feel they belong. Whether we’re investing in employee resource groups or providing tailored resources for each person to reach their full potential, we’re passionate about creating a work environment that makes you excited to show up every single day.
At MRI, one of our core values is to strive to amaze.
From the intelligent solutions we create to the culture we cultivate, that’s our goal every day. Because that’s what industry leaders do. Whether you’re joining as a new Pride member or rejoining us after a short time away, your talent is vital to us, our partners and our clients.
Amazing growth requires amazing employees. Are you up to the challenge?
We know confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply. We’d love to hear from you!
MRI is proud to be an inclusive employer. We welcome and celebrate diversity across all backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, military, veteran status and more.
We believe that Belonging is a direct result of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Those values are woven into the fabric of who we are and are foundational to our continued success. Come and see for yourself!
Amazing growth requires amazing employees. Are you up to the challenge?
We know confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply. We’d love to hear from you!
MRI is proud to be an inclusive employer. We welcome and celebrate diversity across all backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, military, veteran status and more.
We believe that Belonging is a direct result of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Those values are woven into the fabric of who we are and are foundational to our continued success. Come and see for yourself!