LEAD PRODUCT MANAGER

<p>This role owns one of the most business-critical products in our portfolio — one that plays a direct role in our growth, retention, and competitive position. We're hiring a Lead Product Manager to own its strategy and roadmap, working directly with executive leadership, enterprise customers, and cross-functional teams across engineering, design, and revenue.</p><p>This is a senior, high-autonomy role reporting to the VP of Product; you will set direction with limited oversight and be accountable for outcomes.</p><p><strong>How Success Is Measured</strong></p><p>Outcomes for this role include Net Revenue Retention (NRR), Monthly Active Users (MAUs), and feature adoption and stickiness — alongside strengthening our competitive moat and positioning, positively influencing net-new logo growth.</p><p><strong>What You'll Do<br> Strategy &amp; Roadmap</strong></p><ul><li>Own the strategic roadmap for the product.</li><li>Make the roadmap accountable to the metrics above — track them closely enough to catch early when something isn't working, and reprioritize accordingly.</li></ul><p><strong>Technical &amp; Design Leadership</strong></p><ul><li>Hold a strong, well-reasoned point of view on front-end design and UX quality.</li><li>Partner with ML engineering on model behavior and evaluation, and with backend engineering on system and data architecture, at a level of depth that shapes technical decisions.</li></ul><p><strong>Executive &amp; Customer Engagement</strong></p><ul><li>Present roadmap and strategy directly to executive and C-suite stakeholders, and defend it under scrutiny.</li><li>Engage directly with enterprise customers and prospects, including in active sales cycles, as a credible product voice.</li></ul><p><strong>Enterprise GTM &amp; Revenue Partnership</strong></p><ul><li>Partner with Sales, Product Marketing, and Customer Success on positioning, deal support, and renewals as an ongoing responsibility, not a launch handoff.</li><li>Bring a current point of view on engineering productivity and performance measurement in the agentic-AI era into product strategy and roadmap decisions.</li></ul><p><strong>Team Growth</strong></p><ul><li>Mentor product managers working in and around the product, with the opportunity to take on formal people leadership as the team scales.</li><li>Prior experience mentoring or managing product managers directly is a plus, though not required.</li></ul><p><strong>Product Craft &amp; Rigor</strong></p><ul><li>Set the standard for product craft — problem framing, PRDs, roadmap collaboration and post-launch measurement.</li><li>Bring strong rigor, discipline, and process to the cross-functional team, not just to your own output.</li><li>Use agentic AI tools as part of your own product management workflow — research synthesis, spec drafting, roadmap analysis — and help the wider team adopt them well.</li></ul> <p><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></p><ul><li>An understanding of what it takes to sell B2B SaaS and AI products into large, regulated, or enterprise organizations.</li><li>A well-informed point of view on developer and agentic productivity and performance — you've used agentic tools as part of your own workflow, and have an opinion on where this is heading.</li><li>Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous, and multi-product environments.</li><li>A strong, data-driven product leader who knows when to lean on data and when to lean on judgment.</li><li>You can understand and shape the product experience, and hold your own in a technical conversation with both engineers and executives.</li></ul> <p><strong>Why join our team?<br> Culture and Growth:&#xa0;</strong></p><ul><li>Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.</li><li>Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.</li><li>Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.</li><li>Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee</li></ul><p><strong>Benefits:&#xa0;</strong></p><ul><li>32 days of holidays (including bank holidays)</li><li>Annual Leave purchase (up to 10&#xa0;extra days)</li><li>Work from Home Equipment allowance</li><li>Flexible Work from Home - 2 days remote a week&#xa0;</li><li>Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year&#xa0;</li><li>12 Weeks Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave&#xa0;</li><li>Pet friendly office&#xa0;</li><li>Sponsored Learning Opportunities</li><li>Cycle2work scheme</li><li>Team Socials</li></ul><p><strong>Salary:</strong>&#xa0;£90,000 to £100,000 + 5% of Annual salary as Execution Bonus (KPI focussed)</p><div sr-tagline=""></div><p>Stay connected with us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/blueoptima" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn</a> or keep an eye on our <a href="https://www.blueoptima.com/careers" rel="noopener noreferrer">career page</a> for future opportunities!</p>