Job Description
As a Product Manager at The Stepstone Group, you’ll collaborate closely with other Product Managers, Product Directors, Designers, Researchers, Data Scientists and Analysts, and in partnership with our Software Engineering teams, deliver products that contribute significantly to our company mission: make successful hires happen.
You will be part of a team that has a 'user first' approach and consequently work effectively within a Product organisation that has a high degree of user obsession, with a discovery led approach for building better products. You'll be expected to actively prototype and experiment with AI-powered solutions to validate hypotheses and accelerate product development.
This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.
Your responsibilities:
1. Product vision: Drive the vision of your products and understand how it is embedded in the overall product and corporate strategy, with particular focus on identifying opportunities that can transform user experiences and create competitive advantages.
2. Ownership: Own the prioritisation of your backlog, the discovery of strategic opportunities, enabling and empowering your team by creating product roadmaps and deliver consistently with a 'can do' attitude within a context of high alignment and high autonomy. Rapidly prototype AI-enabled features using available tools and platforms to test concepts before full development.
3. Stakeholder management: This job is an individual contributor role. You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, customers, and key executives, through your use of data and thought process.
4. Communication: proactively drive your communication flow, updates, etc about the status of the development and initiatives to partners and main stakeholders, offering transparency; enthusiastically communicate on your achievements and the product vision. Be able to finetune the content of your comms to audiences with various degrees of technical skill, or of seniority.
Qualifications
5. A Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a quantitative or technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
6. Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery.
7. Proven experience of product incubation, incrementally building and scaling up high traffic products.
8. 2+ years working on technology-powered products as a Product Manager.
9. Demonstrated ability to learn multiple functional areas of business e.g marketing, engineering, design, finance, sales, etc.
AI-Specific Requirements:
We are looking for Product Managers that are also Product Builders: you have hands-on experience building user experience- or data- product prototypes using AI-enabled tools. You are proficient in at least one of the following areas:
10. User-centric AI: hands-on experience with prototyping user experiences using platforms like Figma, Lovable or similar. Comfortable with prompt engineering and AI workflow design.
11. AI assisted coding: experience with prototyping backend data products via assisted code writing, using agents or integrations like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc. For example, you vibe-coded your own AI agents.
12. AI foundational knowledge: Good understanding of machine learning concepts, model training, AI/ML cloud infrastructure, and experience working with data science teams on AI product R&D.
Additional Information
We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
13. 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
14. Private medical and dental healthcare
15. Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)
16. 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
17. Life Assurance Cover
18. Cycle to work scheme
19. Hybrid working model (3 days working from the office)
20. Volunteering days
21. and you can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays!
Our commitment:
Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.
As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:
22. Armed Forces Covenant: Bronze Award, Employer Recognition Scheme
23. EcoVadis: Bronze Award
24. Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work
25. RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024
26. Stonewall: Gold Award
27. Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)