Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Looking to advance your career in Product Management?

Passionate about developing impactful, data-driven solutions?

About our Team

Elsevier’s Science, Technology, and Medical Journals (STMJ) division handles over 2,000 journals. Our Customer Experience & Innovation (CE&I) team combines strategic insights with innovative solutions to meet researchers' and clinicians' needs. We create best practices for trusted publishing and deliver a seamless customer experience.

About the Role

We seek a Senior Product Manager to ensure the trust and integrity of our published content. You will manage internal investigative tools and assess third-party capabilities. Ideal candidates have extensive Product Management experience in developing software, specifically for tools to support and optimize analysis or investigative activities.

This role is based in London or Oxford, with regular travel to Oxford, and will be part of our Customer-Centric Innovation Center of Expertise.

In this role you’ll:

• work closely with Technology, Data Science, and Data Analytics teams, as well as integrity and ethics experts, who are the main users of the tools
• help build a modern, scalable user experience for integrity tools, enabling greater speed, automation, and reliability in investigation workflows
• grow trust and build alignment with stakeholders across Technology, Operations, and Publishing
• help shape a product culture that embraces experimentation, customer insights, and data-informed decisions
• contribute to delivering a trusted publishing experience and support millions of global researchers

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement tools for internal investigations in ethics and integrity
• Collaborate with ethics experts to identify user needs and develop solutions
• Generate new ideas from product data and engage in product discovery
• Define and evaluate product hypotheses in a quantitative manner, such as A/B testing
• Monitor and evaluate third-party capabilities and lead integration where relevant
• Drive product decisions using metrics, KPIs, and OKRs to track success and inform strategy
• Create product development plans, conduct product-level opportunity assessment, and contribute to business case development

Requirements

• 5+ years in software product development, especially analysis/investigative tools.
• Experienced with relevant technologies, tools, and platforms, including Agile, Scrum, and other product development methodologies.
• Strong demonstration of data-driven decision-making and experimentation.
• Proven competencies in digital product management, especially excelling at assessing difficult trade-offs and setting clear priorities for the product roadmap to deliver maximum value.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Self-starter with an enthusiastic, inquisitive nature, and ability to deal with ambiguity and embrace change.
• Technically savvy: ability to understand the dynamics and workings of complex pieces of software, and how this impacts product decisions.
• Long-term ownership and success in product lifecycle strategy and planning, including the release of multiple products and features.
• Passion for user problem-solving.
• Existing knowledge of Publishing industry and workflows is a plus.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

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
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 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 scheme via Perks at Work

About the Business

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.