Product Manager (UK)

Overview:  
 
As a Product Manager, you will drive the execution of strategic objectives, shape the product roadmap, and manage priorities across the product lifecycle from planning and requirements gathering through launch and ongoing optimization for the Hypori Secure Messaging product suite. This is both a customer-facing and hands-on technical role, requiring a balance of strategic execution, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to translate market needs into actionable product direction. 

 This role will involve working as part of a globally distributed team, and accordingly, there will be a need for ad-hoc meetings out of standard working hours. 

Please note: Due to the nature of this role, applicants must hold UK citizenship and be eligible to obtain and maintain the appropriate level of UK security clearance.

Responsibilities: 

• Understand and synthesize customer, market, and business needs to inform and drive product strategy. 

• Develop and maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends. 

• Collaborate with Security, Engineering, Sales and Marketing, Information Governance, Customer Success, and the Leadership team to define requirements to align with the overall business strategy and goals. 

• Support the product vision and manage the roadmap for your area, keeping it aligned with company goals and customer needs. 

• Deliver a financially sound, continuously improving technology platform. 

• Protect intellectual property, user data, and system integrity by (a) adhering to Hypori's policies and procedures for secure software development and (b) following best practices for secure product design, implementation, and deployment of development, build, test, production, and other environments.  

• Act as the primary product voice in customer engagements, leading discovery and feedback sessions to align customer needs with the product roadmap. 

• Support Product Leadership in creation of product management plans, product-specific business plans, and product and release launch plans. 

• Monitor release schedules to ensure product and feature availability. 

• Work with cross functional teams to accomplish objectives and resolve problems. 

• Balance product requirements and development resource constraints to establish achievable product development schedules. 

• Support the development of content for customers, support, and sales teams. 

• Partner with customer-facing teams to drive client success, retention, and growth. 

• This role may involve ad-hoc travel within the UK and overseas. 

Qualifications: 

• 4+ years of Product Management or related role. 

• This role requires UK Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) screening. Any offer of employment will be conditional on satisfactory completion. 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or relevant industry experience. 

• Product architecture and design experience for cloud-scale enterprise software deployed globally and run 24x7 as a service on cloud providers such as AWS. 

• Experience driving elements of the product development lifecycle such as product vision, go-to-market strategy, requirements gathering, and product launch. 

• Experience creating wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity designs with Figma or similar software. 

• Ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams. 

• Strong customer-first approach with ability to balance business needs against customer requirements to deliver an optimized experience. 

• Experience in conducting competitive research and analysis.