Product Manager: MAPP (12 month maternity cover)

GEOLYTIX is seeking an experienced Product Manager (maternity cover) to help us as we evolve and grow our web mapping and reporting capabilities through our SaaS application, MAPP. 

As Product Manager in the MAPP team, you will be the driving force behind ensuring that our web mapping software is in the best shape to help our clients answer their location questions, both now and in the future. You will sit at the intersection of the business, technology and business development teams, understanding the evolving needs of the users and translating them into actionable concepts for our software developers. 

You will be the go-to expert on MAPP across the business, showcasing evolving features and supporting account managers and the business development team as they engage with clients. 

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Roadmap Ownership. Own and manage the MAPP product vision and roadmap. Define product goals and KPIs, prioritise initiatives and make trade offs between feature development, quality improvement and technical investment.
• Customer and User Centric Product Development. Maintain a deep understanding of users and their workflows. Lead continuous product discovery, and convert problems into clear requirements ensuring changes are driven by evidence.
• Competitive Intelligence: An understanding of the broader Geospatial/Location Intelligence market to ensure MAPP stays ahead of "future" location questions.
• Backlog Management and Requirements Definition. Own the product backlog, ensuring epics and stories are outcome driven and implementation ready. Document clear requirements and acceptance criteria that enable teams to deliver with minimal ambiguity. Ensure alignment of priorities across key stakeholder groups.
• Client Relationship and Adoption Support. Act as the ‘go to expert’ on MAPP, for client implementation and demo support. Provide structured feedback on client trends, recurring pain points and feature opportunities.
• Develop team maturity: As part of a growing Product function, advance the definition and evolution of team ways of working. Refine best practice for discovery, opportunity prioritisation, and Product and engineering synchronisation.
• Release Planning and Product Governance. Own go to market plans for new features, and ensure change is communicated, documented and measured. Maintain product coherence and guard against fragmentation across the offer.
• Stakeholder Management and Communication. Act as the primary point of contact for MAPP product direction across the business. Communicate roadmap, priorities and decisions clearly to commercial, delivery and leadership teams.

About You

• An experienced Product Manager who is comfortable working in B2B environments.
• Familiar with web mapping tools and GIS (geographical information systems) capabilities - ideally a competent GIS user in your own right.
• Comfortable working in a data centric environment. Able to engage with the data scientists and analysts whose work will be brought to life in your platform.
• An exceptional communicator, able to share complex ideas simply and communicate an idea in multiple different ways to ensure it lands with different audiences.
• Always looking for process improvements, you don't just follow a workflow; you improve it. You are comfortable in ambiguity and enjoy creating the structures and templates that help a growing team scale.
• Data driven, yet confident in making decisions amongst uncertain indicators.

Skills & Experience

• At least 3 years Product Management experience, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment.
• Demonstrable experience in working with enterprise customers to define, build, and scale successful B2B software products.
• Good understanding of B2B business models, pricing, and go-to-market strategies.
• Strong attention to detail, driven to ensure that our clients receive the best possible experience.
• Proven ability to work with enterprise customers, from discovery and requirements gathering to feedback and iteration.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate product strategy and roadmap to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A commercial mindset with a track record of delivering against business KPIs.
• A data-driven approach to decision-making, with experience using product analytics tools to inform product strategy.

Desirable

• A history in working with retailers, ideally in their property or location planning functions.
• An understanding of the key principles of Location Planning, and how these users operate.
• Curiosity and a proactive approach to new technologies, including AI, and how they can be applied to solve B2B challenges.

Other stuff

This is for a 12 month contract to cover maternity leave. Our offices are in Leeds and Clerkenwell, London. The role can be located in either. Competitive salary. We’re a young and growing company who embrace flexible working; full time or part time, family friendly hours and/or working from home days considered.

Interested?

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV and cover letter to careers@geolytix.co.uk. No agencies please.

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