Product Manager

3 weeks ago


Paddington, United Kingdom Vodafone Full time


At Vodafone, we're working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.
We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.
With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.
Role Purpose
We are looking for a Product Manager to drive the strategy, vision and priorities the roadmap of our Telco as a Service Platform and developer experience products. The role is global supporting all group functions and operating companies within in the Vodafone Group's Cloud Engineering's product portfolio, known as TaaS (Telco-as-a-Service). TaaS aims to bring our engineers from across the globe together to create a catalogue of reusable engineering capabilities in a completely self-service manner, including a shared cloud engineering platform which hosts multitenant cloud native applications. As a Product Manager within in Cloud Engineering, you are primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by squads delivering our Developer Experience tooling e.g. Backstage, DevSecOps pipelines etc. and our TaaS platform (multi-cloud development platform). You will use your technical expertise to close the gap between the technical and business stakeholders to guide technological and architecture changes while aligning with the overall product development roadmap and communicating it across agile teams.
What you'll do

  • As a Product Manager you are the bridge between our technical delivery teams, product owners and our software engineering communities to direct, inform and prioritize the order of work (roadmap and backlog) to maximize value within constraints of resource, budget, compliance.
  • Contribute to the Cloud Engineering's portfolio of products (TaaS) to create a single vision and roadmap, own the Dev Ex roadmap and backlog by working with members of the product management team to generate a consistent set of priorities and handle interdependencies between cloud engineering platform feature delivery.
  • Act as technical advisor to stakeholders, and support the squad team in delivering value.
  • Communicate with business stakeholders to set and manage expectations about budget, delivery, and timelines.
  • Support the product owner in agile ceremonies, such as, Programme Increment Planning, Sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand ups.

Who you are

  • Hands on experience in a technology domain, preferably cloud, infrastructure as code or DevOps related.
  • Experience in a Technical Product Owner/Manager role or similar roles: owning value driven roadmaps and backlogs and leading delivery teams to make them happen.
  • Familiar with cloud and DevOps technologies practices, processes, and standards. Key components of stack used in the team: AWS, GCP, microservices & serverless infrastructure (Kubernetes, service mesh), API gateways, CICD: Azure DevOps, Back Stage and GitHub, and working in Agile team.
  • Demonstrates strong communication and diplomacy skills to persuade and influence colleagues in other departments.
  • Highly energetic, with a 'can-do' attitude and courageous lateral thinking and Strong analytical profile with problem-solving skills.

Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don't meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
What's in it for you
We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.

  • Discretionary yearly bonus: 10%
  • Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
  • Charity days: 5 days/year
  • Maternity/adoption leave: 52 weeks out of whichthe first 13 weeks are fully paid followed by 26 weeks of half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
  • Paternity leave: 16 weeks fully paid
  • Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
  • Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
  • Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

Who we are
You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.
As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognize and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, color, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.
Together we can.
Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.



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