Product Manager – Manage

We are on a mission to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month and our website and apps receive over 140 million visits per month. Joining the Manage team in Rightmove, you’ll make this mission possible by making it easier for consumers to manage their move. 

The Manage team looks after our account proposition 'My Rightmove', evolving the signed user experience across the Rightmove website. Our aim is to make it easier for consumers to manage their move by providing a unified experience that connects the journey end‑to‑end.

The Product Development team at Rightmove plays a pivotal role in delivering the overall consumer and customer digital experience underpinning the Rightmove business.  We recognise that to deliver the best products and features for our customers and consumers we need to work together effectively as a healthy, high performing team. We work collaboratively across a mix of product and centralised teams, together working towards Rightmove’s strategy.    

The Product Manager role reports into a Senior Product Manager in our Consumer Domain, responsible for our Move & Home pillars.

A typical week as a Product Manager might involve:  

•    Lead the ownership and monitoring of the products and functionality owned by the team through use of the objectives and KPIs you will define   

•    Create and validate business cases that underpin the product/initiative, with clear definition of opportunity, costs, and benefit

•    Proactively contribute to initiatives that aim to improve our customer or consumer experience, both identifying your own contribution and supporting others in theirs 

•    Initiate and/or undertake any analysis to highlight any impacts to systems or business processes 

•    Take an active role in the experience discovery of initiatives and products, working closely with Product Designers and Researchers to define the approach 

•    Collaborates with user experience specialists and visual designers to re-work existing experiences, as well as creating new ones 

•    Spends time understanding what motivates our customers and ensuring they are up to date with industry insights 

•    Generates unique ideas, resourceful in identifying opportunities, and encourages innovation within the team  

•    Works with engineers and technical architects to understand technology limitations, recommendations and development options 

•    Accountable for requirements definition and delivery of solutions across your product/initiatives

•    Maintain a backlog of improvements for your area, clearly describing how they support our overall business goals and work with the Senior Product Manager & Head of Product to prioritise these alongside the wider priorities for the domain and product function

•    Work with Senior Product Manager & the Head of Product to help shape the strategic direction, vision and objectives for Manage based on clear rational, analysis and insights 

We are looking for someone who:  

•    Can lead product discovery, culminating in clear recommendations and, where relevant, the best approaches for delivery

•    Has experience delivering successful end-to-end delivery of software products in a technology-led company

•    Takes responsibility for a product and deliver it with an autonomous delivery team 

•    Makes data informed decisions, leveraging quantitative and qualitative insights

•    Is passionate about delivering quality experience and software to end users 

•    Has excellent organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to multitask and make tough calls

•    Effectively manages relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, alignment on product goals, and collaboration throughout the product lifecycle

•    Sets and measures clear, realistic and timely goals 

•    Builds a deep understanding of how an organisation is run, both commercially and operationally

•    Actively encourages contributions from all those around them recognising the value of team members input when solving problems

•    Thinks long term, and will drive the vision for the product their team is working on

•    Has found the agile philosophy to be second nature

•    Comfortable describing the technical implementation of their product

•    Desire to learn and improve themselves and the processes within the team

•    Is equally comfortable and engaged negotiating the roadmap with product leaders, presenting to senior leaders, or discussing implementation with our engineers.