Job Title: Product Manager
REMOTE OR 2 DAYS IN THE OFFICE BASED IN BRIGHTON
About Our client:-
Our client is a specialist agency serving the UK higher education sector. Alongside their core service offer, they are building data-led products that help clients make better marketing, recruitment, and planning decisions.
Role Overview:
They are looking for a Product Manager to lead the shaping and development of data products for the UK higher education sector.
This role is suited to someone comfortable working in ambiguity, translating client and business needs into clear product direction, and coordinating delivery across a small internal team and external technical partners.
The Product Manager will lead discovery and validation, maintain product priorities and roadmap direction, and help move ideas from early concept through to pilot and early release. This role requires strong stakeholder management, commercial awareness, and the ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, and business priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Strategy:
Develop and evolve product strategy for their emerging product offering, identifying market opportunities, customer problems, and areas where products can create commercial value and strategic differentiation.
Stakeholder Engagement & External Collaboration:
Work closely with leadership, commercial teams, clients, and external technical partners to align on priorities, communicate trade-offs, and maintain momentum across product initiatives.
Product Roadmap:
Create and manage a product roadmap, prioritising opportunities, features, and enhancements based on customer insight, business goals, technical feasibility, and available capacity.
Discovery, Research & Validation
Lead product discovery with clients, prospects, and internal stakeholders to understand user needs, test assumptions, and validate opportunities before significant delivery investment.
Data Governance & Compliance:
Work with relevant stakeholders to ensure appropriate consideration is given to data quality, governance, security, and regulatory requirements, including GDPR.
Performance & Monitoring & QA:
Define and track success measures for product initiatives, pilots, and releases, using qualitative and quantitative feedback to inform iteration, prioritisation, and future product direction.
Key Skills & Experience:
Proven experience as a product manager, ideally involving digital or data-led products
Experience working in ambiguity and helping shape early-stage products, propositions, or new initiatives
Ability to translate user, market, and business insight into clear priorities and practical delivery plans
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across leadership, commercial, client, and technical groups
Good understanding of product discovery, validation, roadmap management, and iterative delivery
Experience in the higher education sector (preferred).