Junior Product Manager, CreateiQ

Linklaters | CreateiQ

Linklaters is a global law firm, with 31 offices in 21 countries worldwide.

We have been named as one of The Times’ Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality for the 10th year running, recognised by Stonewall as a top 10 employer for LGBTQ+ inclusion, and by the Social Mobility Employer Index as a top employer for advancing social mobility.

CreateiQ is the contract lifecycle management platform developed by Linklaters, designed to make it simple and secure to create, negotiate and execute contracts online. We're a team of ambitious engineers, designers, architects and lawyers who believe in a new future of digital contracting - one where our data is our single source of truth.

The Role

CreateiQ is growing rapidly, and we are entering our scale-up phase with an ambitious product strategy and 2025 roadmap. We are increasing our product team to help with bringing the product vision to life.

We are looking for a Junior Product Manager to join our incredible product team to help with bringing our roadmap and strategy to life. We are looking for someone who thrives on curiosity and loves puzzles, excels at getting things done, and is committed to driving results. Whether you're still early in your career or have some experience under your belt, we encourage you to apply if you're enthusiastic about making a difference.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for managing product optimisation or feature development roadmap workstreams
• Conduct discovery sessions to gather qualitative and data informed insights and requirements, even when direct user interviews may not be feasible
• Translate gathered insights into clear journey maps, UX flows and other detailed guidance to the design team on the solutions being developed, ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals
• Build thorough product requirements documentation, Jira epics and individual user stories with well-defined functional requirements and acceptance criteria
• Maintain excellent communication and collaboration with developers, legal engineers, QA, and business teams to ensure a seamless development process and successful launch
• Engage in continuous dialogue with developers during the development phase to provide guidance and resolve any roadblocks or uncertainties in requirements
• Identify and manage technical and business dependencies impacting feature launches and mitigate risks associated with dependencies through cross-functional collaboration, scope negotiation, and other strategies to ensure timely and budget-conscious delivery of workstreams
• Work in close partnership with business development and marketing teams on go to market strategy for individual launches
• Ensure features are developed and delivered on time and meet the company’s quality standards
• Provide support to the Linklaters GenAI team with managing or contributing to individual workstreams as may be necessary from time to time

About You

• You demonstrate that you can understand our product, users, customers, and the domain we operate in, or are ready to quickly pick up that knowledge and build on it
• You can think through client needs, commercial requirements and incorporate end-user feedback
• Ideally, you have a foundational understanding of the trends, players and products that define the legal tech market or have some experience with the B2B SaaS product development. If you can showcase instances where you launched a product or feature involving cross-functional collaboration, you will stand out

What We Value: Your curiosity and eagerness to learn, with a drive to deeply understand both our product and our customers.

Execution:

• You have some prior exposure to or experience with product management and you see yourself building a career in it
• You can manage high priority workstreams in close collaboration with designers, developers, fellow product managers and broader teams and partners
• You know how to work with the jobs-to-be-done framework, discovery and customer journey mapping in practice
• You know how to work with the objectives and key results driven roadmaps
• You know how to work with agile and scrum methodologies in product development lifecycle
• Ideally, you have a working understanding of technical and business dependencies for B2B product or feature launches and can manage them in your workstreams

What We Value: Your teamwork and effective communication. Show us how you’ve driven projects to completion or influenced their success through collaboration and clear communication.

Impact:

• You prioritise outcomes over outputs and know how to leverage strategic thinking and cross-functional collaboration to get results
• You know when to seek support or recognise a need for pivoting, all to achieve the intended outcome

What We Value: Your customer-centric mindset. We’re looking for team members, like you, who use feedback to continuously improve and deliver impactful results.

Our Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance:

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services.

Family & Lifestyle:

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes.
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave.
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks.

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).