Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager – Broadcast & Streaming

Selling the product vision and direction for all products and services within the portfolio, ensuring that product strategies align with business objectives, leading a team of product managers and owners to deliver successful products to market. 

Location – Commutable distance to Winchester / London 

We offer  

• Up to £90,000  
• 15% bonus
• 5% pension contribution 
• Private Medical 
• 25 days annual leave  
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance 
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture 

The role 

• Owns the roadmap, backlog, and prioritisation across one or more products or strategic product initiatives
• Leads the product discovery and development process, from ideation to launch, through collaboration with relevant teams including Software Engineering, Architecture, Enablement, Operations, Marketing and other stakeholders
• Defines and builds new capabilities and enhances existing products to drive the business forward to meet and exceed revenue and growth goals, whilst ensuring scale and flexibility
• Offers mentorship and guidance to Product Owners, Product Managers and other team members in terms of best practices, strategic thinking, and professional development
• Proactively coaches colleagues across Arqiva ensuring that Arqiva's products, services and solutions are well understood and represented
• Conducts market and customer research to identify emerging trends, customer needs and understand the competitive landscape
• Anticipates and stays abreast of product and market trends and technologies
• Uses data to identify opportunities, threats and inform product decisions
• Establishes and defines success metrics and KPIs whilst driving a culture of data-centricity and taking action where necessary to improve product performance
• Enables commercial opportunities through creative and innovative product solutions with effective cost and pricing models
• Manages and influences stakeholders through compelling and concise storytelling and communication

The person 

• Expertise in customer and market analysis and strategic positioning of products to maximise market share and profitability 
• Strong financial acumen to manage budgets and forecast product performance
• Hight proficiency in decision-making and prioritisation across complex and competing needs
• Communicates clearly, concisely and appropriately to the audience
• Ability to adapt and anticipate based upon changing market and customer needs
• Curiosity: Remains in the problem space when others have jumped to solutions
• Champions a culture of innovation and experimentation within product management, encouraging creative thinking and exploration of new ideas
• Familiarity with budgeting business cases for the adoption of new technology as well as the launch of new products and services

Knowledge & Experience

• Extensive product management experience with a proven track record of partnering with engineering, sales, marketing and operations functions to launch large-scale products, with an understanding relevant product and technical frameworks, including standards, product lifecycle, data and insights
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and deliver products that meet the needs of target markets
• A demonstratable ability to collaborate and influence multiple partners, driving consensus and commitment
• Understanding of Arqiva's product landscape, target markets and ability to translate that into Arqiva's vision for the future
• Motivated self-starter with the conviction and confidence to pivot and/or stay on course in the face of adversity
• B2B experience preferred by not essential

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast, and the UK's leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.   

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us. 

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work. 

Our focus for 2024 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply  

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