Digital Product Manager

CobbleWeb, a leading developer of custom online marketplaces, is looking for an ambitious mid-career Product Manager, who would like to grow their skill-set and expertise by working on more complex and challenging e-commerce projects.

This role is a good fit for someone who can balance previous methodologies and insights with new ways of working. A capacity and willingness to adapt means that you will be adept at learning from delegated tasks and feedback, supported by some coaching on the more complex marketplace-related aspects.

As a critical lynchpin you are skilled at cross-functional collaboration. In conjunction with clients and technical teams, you enjoy designing optimal solutions by analysing, discussing, and aligning business goals with product specifications that are technically feasible and user-friendly.

You are a curious leader who interrogates all aspects of the product development process to identify potential improvements or resolve potential conflicts. You believe that information-sharing is a valuable tool for teams to shape best-in-class solutions. 

If this is you, CobbleWeb may be a good fit:

• An independent and profitable business that is doubling in size. 
• More than 12 years experience in designing, building, and optimising high-growth online marketplaces.
• Technically complex projects that often present unique business challenges that need solving.
• A distributed company, headquartered in London, UK, with a strong documentation and iteration culture that supports remote team members based in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caucasus region.
• We take full ownership of marketplace projects in close collaboration with our clients. We’re a close-knit in-house team who love working together. We don’t outsource core functions.

 

Work-life balance ☑️ Team support ☑️ Career development ☑️ Job fulfilment ☑️ Innovative projects ☑️

Responsibilities

1. Discovery and Planning Phase

• Collaborate with clients to understand their business goals and user expectations.
• Advocate for a lean approach, driving principles such as formulating and testing assumptions, shipping often, and incorporating user feedback.
• Gain client buy-in through effective use of written documents, user flow diagrams, wireframes, and design mockups.
• Evaluate and propose best-in-class solutions, understanding the pros and cons of different approaches.
• Document and update functional specifications based on feedback and contributions from team members.

2. Development Phase

• Maintain a healthy product backlog, prioritising tasks based on factors such as budget, return on investment, and product-market fit.
• Monitor project budgets, identifying potential overspending and recommending adjustments to scope or specifications.
• Ensure development aligns with documented specifications and assist the testing team with test case preparation.
• Own the software development life cycle, ensuring well-planned and executed sprints that align with project goals.