Job title: Product Manager
Department: IT
Location: Homebased, within the U.K.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Competitive
We're looking for a Product Manager to be part of our success story.
**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.
About the role
We are seeking a Product Manager with experience at mid to senior level to take ownership of strategy, delivery and leadership across one of our flagship products. You will play a key role in defining direction, managing roadmaps, and ensuring the product delivers measurable outcomes for our customers and the business. The role requires someone who is confident in leading cross-functional teams, mentoring less experienced colleagues and working closely with stakeholders to align on priorities and commercial goals.
You will balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. From helping shape product vision and guiding design, to managing backlogs and overseeing launches, you will ensure that the product lifecycle runs smoothly and effectively. Success in this role means creating a product that delivers excellent user experiences, launches on time, and is measured against clear outcomes. This is an opportunity to grow influence across the organisation while building a high standard of product practice across the team.
Key responsibilities
Strategy & Planning
- Define and implement product strategies aligned with Activate Group's company and technology vision and goals.
- Develop and maintain product roadmaps in collaboration with the Head of Product and other senior leadership.
- Recommend new product opportunities and enhancements to drive growth and customer value.
Execution & Delivery
- Gather and analyse input from customers, stakeholders, and internal teams to shape requirements and features.
- Own the product backlog, ensuring prioritisation reflects business goals and user needs.
- Partner with UX and Design to deliver experiences consistent with our Brand identity and customer experience principles.
- Oversee product and feature launches, ensuring they meet quality standards and timelines.
Leadership & People Development
- Lead cross-functional product teams and coordinate delivery across Engineering, Design and Operations.
- Mentor junior product managers and support with their professional development.
- Chair product boards and present progress, plans and key decisions.
- Act as a senior product authority within Activate Group, representing product best practices with senior stakeholders and customers where required.
Measurement & Improvement
- Work with the Head of Product to define and track product success metrics, reporting on performance and impact.
- Work with the Head of Product to establish governance and reporting on product performance, cost, and risk.
Skills and experience
- Proven experience in product management, with exposure to both product development and product design.
- Experience building and maintaining product roadmaps, aligned with portfolio-level strategy.
- Knowledge of Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies.
- Strong customer focus and ability to translate customer insights into product improvements.
- Strong background working with UI and UX teams to deliver high-quality user experiences.
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle and deployment processes.
- Skilled in using analytics and engagement metrics to guide product decisions.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and align stakeholders.
- Previous experience in a product management role, ideally in SaaS, InsurTech, or B2B technology.
- Previous experience managing/mentoring product managers or owners.
- Deep experience in Agile environments, including backlog management, user story writing, and prioritisation.
- Strong commercial judgment, analytical skills, and problem-solving ability.
- Experience preparing and managing business cases useful.
Benefits
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
- Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
- Life assurance: three times basic salary
- Free breakfasts and fruit
- Birthday surprise for everybody!
What you can expect from us
At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.
From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.
A bit about us
Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.
We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.
We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.
Want to know what it's like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:
Purpose: Make someone's bad day better
Values:
- Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
- Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
- Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.
