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The A Side: A Day in The Life
Abbey Road and Audiomovers' are seeking a highly skilled, delivery focused and experienced Senior Technical Product Manager to join their team. This role bridges the gap between business needs and technical strategy/execution, playing a crucial role in defining, driving and delivering the commercial technology strategy, translating requirements into scalable solutions, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional outcomes.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for the continued development and maintenance of Abbey Road and Audiomovers' commercial technologies. This includes, but is not limited to, D2C and B2B sectors such as:
- User and authenticated/account services
- Product licensing and authorisation
- Online studio booking services
- CRM integrations
- Website and CMS integrations
- Payments integrations/services
- Web analytics integrations
- Customer acquisition & retention technology/integrations
- Data warehouse and reporting capabilities
- End-user product-web features
- Internal/admin tools
In this role, you will also steer a team of developers, POs and QAs, provide out-of-hours/outage support, oversee the technical aspects of marketing campaigns, manage UAT & release and the budget for the technology team and its tooling.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Collaborative
- Collaborate with business, engineering, design, and marketing stakeholders to define and prioritize features, enhancements, and bug fixes
- Act as the voice of the business during development, ensuring solutions meet agreed-upon requirements
- Provide direct line management for a small team of product owners, analysts, and QAs
- Manage and own the technology budget
Be Technical
- Act as the product owner and delivery lead in an agile environment
- Work closely with engineering teams to break down features into actionable user stories with clear acceptance criteria
- Ensure technical feasibility of proposed solutions and advocate for best practices in design and scalability, ensuring features, bugs, and changes are deployed efficiently and safely
- Elicit, document, and validate detailed business and technical requirements through interviews, workshops, user stories, and use case
- Translate business needs into clear functional and non-functional requirements
- Conduct gap analyses and impact assessments of proposed changes
- Create process flows, data models, and wireframes to clarify complex concepts
Person Specification
Necessary
- Strong experience in a Product Manager, Technical Business Analyst, or similar role in a technology-driven organization
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), particularly Agile
- Experience writing clear, actionable requirements and user stories
- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Experience working with tools like Jira, GitHub, Figma, SQL, Google Analytics / BigQuery / Cloud Platform, Hubspot, headless CMS
- Strong leadership, influence and stakeholder management
- High attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and navigating complexity
- Results-oriented with a proactive and hands-on approach
Desirable
- Technical background
- Experience in E-commerce, APIs, CMS integrations, SaaS platforms, data platforms, and/or enterprise systems
- Familiarity with UX principles and wireframing tools (e.g., Figma)
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.
Job Category
Technology
