About The Role
Hippo is recruiting for Senior Product Managers to join our growing team. Product Managers ensure that our client's goals turn into actions. This means creating a compelling vision for your product, developing the product roadmap, writing user stories, and actively managing them in a prioritized backlog.
As a Senior Consultant, specializing in Product, you’ll already be an expert in your field, in agile, and a confident coach. You’ll also be a leader of people and teams and an advocate for user-centered design approaches. Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to share your expertise with, and influence, clients and team members and to continue to develop you as a leader.
Your role in a nutshell:
* Inspiring and guiding your colleagues by supporting them in understanding the client's needs, explaining the broader context, and getting buy-in.
* Provide team leadership and protect your team from unwanted distraction where possible, allowing them to focus solely on delivery.
* Engage with stakeholders to create a project vision and translate it into a roadmap & prioritized backlog.
* Communicating with an extremely diverse group of people, including experts in their field.
* Lead a diverse multidisciplinary team delivering work on behalf of one of our high-profile clients.
Skills and experience that you need:
People are at the center of everything we do. We’re a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our clients and their users. We take a common-sense approach to getting things done. We get things wrong, we learn from experience, and we adapt. We stay curious and never stop learning.
We don’t need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you have the ability to:
* Lead a team of people that are specialists in their field.
* Identify and use evidence of value to drive decision-making to ensure the user is at the heart of the team.
* Build consensus amongst people with different perspectives, with the confidence to make decisive decisions when consensus is not possible.
* Bridge the gap between stakeholders and the team so the team can remain focused on delivery.
* Find pragmatic and creative ways to balance constraints such as policy and security in order to prioritize work and meet user needs.
* Perform well in a wide variety of delivery disciplines (Scrum, Kanban).
* Communicate confidently and credibly on behalf of the company and the client.
* Lead workshops and group exercises, remotely and in-person.
* Build product and user-centric capabilities in others, helping colleagues and clients know what to do when you are not around.
What makes us great:
As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
* Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
* 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
* Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
* Critical illness cover
* Life assurance and death in service cover
* Volunteer days
* Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
* Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
* Season ticket loans
* Financial and general wellbeing sessions
* Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
* private health cover
* private dental cover
* additional company pension contributions
* additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
* wellbeing contribution
* charity contributions
* tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo:
At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity, and problem-solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures, and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.
We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer, and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations, and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.
Hi, we’re Hippo.
At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centered design, and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organizations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centered approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organizations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.
Hippo locations:
We are headquartered in Leeds and located across the UK in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, London, and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide, so don't let location hold you back from applying. We welcome candidates from all over the UK who possess the flexibility to work from any of our locations. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k to help make your move a smooth one. It's worth noting that, given the dynamic nature of our business, you may be required to work on-site at client locations or from your own home.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £57,000.00-£72,000.00 per year
Schedule:
* Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Birmingham B5 4TB
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