Product Manager (Maternity Cover)
Contract: Fixed Term
Level: Mid to Senior
Duration: 4 days a week for 11.5 months
Start date: 1st December 2025
Timezone requirement: GMT +/-2 hours
Location: Fully remote
Salary: £60,000 to £70,000
About Oxford Abstracts 🚀
Oxford Abstracts is a world leader in academic conferencing software. Powering over 2,000 conferences per year around the world.
Our mission is to simplify the process of managing events, abstracts, and submissions so our clients can focus on delivering world-class conferences.
We're a friendly, distributed, team of 18. Founded in 2001, we know our customers well and have widely used products. If you would like to find out more about our team, look at https://oxfordabstracts.com/company/about/
Our values 🏡
* Transparency. We’re open and honest with our clients and each other.
* Customer focus. We listen to our customers and use their feedback to make their experience even better.
* Continual learning. We try new things and adapt as we go, always remembering that no one knows everything!
About the role ⚒️
We’re looking for an experienced Product manager to join the team on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the product vision, ensuring we continue to deliver an exceptional service for our customers whilst also meeting our strategic business level goals.
We are striving to be the only tool you will need to host an academic conference. As a result, our product is incredibly varied. Some examples of upcoming projects:
* A website builder
* A schedule conflict checker
* The ability for users to bulk upload their conference schedule
* General modernisation of the application
Key responsibilities 💻
* Product strategy the roadmap: own and evolve the product roadmap to support business goals and customer needs
* Discovery and prioritisation: incorporate customer feedback and market analysis to inform product strategies and feature prioritisation
* Cross-team collaboration: work closely with design, research, engineers, marketing, customer success and customer support to inform product decisions and ensure smooth product launches
* Analytics: track key product metrics and communicate progress to the team
* Product life cycle: end to end management of the product lifecycle - discovery, writing specs, testing, reviewing designs, copy, coordinating product launches
* Project management: managing development cycles through agile methodologies - sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement etc
* Continuity and handover: document decisions, processes and learnings to ensure smooth handover
Must haves ✅
* 3+ years of product management experience
* Fast learner who is able to problem solve quickly
* Experience working with product teams that build and deliver software
* Experience working with multiple engineers and product designers
* Experience working with SaaS products
* Track record of building impactful products
* Comfortable working in a remote environment
* Comfortable working in a small team
* Located GMT +/- 2 hours
Benefits💛
* 30 days holiday a year
* Work from home budget
* Fully remote
* Flexible working hours and days
* For those employed on the UK payroll we offer additional pension benefits
Hiring process 🤝
* 20 minute video introduction call.
* Second interview with our PM and Designer where you will be asked to present a case study (1 hour)
* Final interview with an Engineer and CEO (1 hour)
In addition to the screening questions you must send a response to farihah@oxfordabstracts.com to the following questions. Any application without these responses will not be considered.
* This role is fully remote. Briefly describe your experience working in fully remote product teams and how you ensured team alignment?
* In your previous roles, what is one method of feature prioritisation you have used?