Senior Product Execution Manager

About the Role

We are looking for a sharp versatile Manager who will sit at the intersection of business strategy, product execution, and cross-functional co-ordination as our Senior Product Execution Manager. You will be the connective tissue that turns ambiguous problems into structured plans and shipped outcomes. This role will sit across all products, with specific objectives around the discovery and design of specific products. The successful person is expected to be autonomous, a self-starter, with a detail-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Product to define, scope and prioritise initiatives across the product roadmap
• Conduct research and discovery for products that are being developed that are in early stages of exploration, and development
• Lead detailed analysis on specific areas of product strategy, or product requirements where ambiguity exists to drive discussions to closure, and feed into the business requirements
• Own end-to end project delivery (across all products), tracking milestones, managing risks, and removing blockers proactively. Owning regular government and management meetings.
• Work with the head of product to provide ongoing Product strategy, Product Execution updates to Blackford SLT
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering, Commercialisation/Sales, Product Marketing & Customer Experience design to conduct data analysis and user research to surface insights that inform product decisions
• Where needed facilitate sprint planning, standups, retrospectives and stakeholder reviews
• Build and maintain dashboards, status reports and OKR tracking for leadership visibility
• Map and optimize business processes, identifying areas where AI can unlock efficiency
• Act as the go-to co-ordination point between Product, Engineering, Sales and Operations

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5-8 years in a Product Management, Business Analyst or Project Management role
• Strong analytical and structured thinking, ability to translate this into documentation, and engage broader stakeholder for decision making and consideration
• Experience in leading through project management discipline – steering groups/working groups.
• Experience running scrums, and ensuring delivery discipline.
• Experience with tools (Jira, Notion, MPP)
• Experience writing clear requirements documents, Business Requirements, Product Requirements, Business Case development, Scrum artefacts
• Confident stakeholder management skills
• Comfort working in a faced pace ambiguous environment
• Prior experience at an AI or SaaS startup
• Exposure to LLMs, ML pipelines or data products

Desirable Skills

• Agile/Scrum certification
• Experience with BI tools...