We are on the hunt for proactive, passionate, and highly collaborative product manager to lead our fantastic product team. If you're looking for a new role where you can bring your leadership and product expertise to life, this could be the place for you.

About us

At AM, our product managers help turn primary sources into digital adventures, unveiling the mysteries of hidden voices. We design and develop tools that empower AM's editorial teams and our SaaS customers to manage and present digitised materials, helping students and researchers explore and share historical information from physical archives.

We thrive on agility—adapting, learning, and iterating swiftly. Product management at AM is dynamic, progressive, and rooted in a bias for action, always striving for ways to deliver value effectively.

Our product managers work in small, cross-functional, autonomous teams alongside engineers and designers, collaborating with other teams across our organisation. We embrace Continuous Discovery and Continuous Deployment practices to enable sustainable delivery, ensuring we create meaningful and impactful solutions for our customers and the business.

As we grow and evolve, we need experienced product leaders who understand the importance of team culture, operational effectiveness, and delivering value while inspiring and mentoring others to succeed.

About the role

As a Lead Product Manager, you will:

• Lead and develop a high-performing product management team, fostering collaboration, alignment, and professional growth.
• Maintain a deep understanding of our customers and business, identifying and prioritising opportunities that align with strategic goals.
• Take overall accountability for scoping, requirements elicitation, and solution design, ensuring clarity, action, and stakeholder engagement.
• Take a hands-on role in the elicitation of requirements and creation of specifications, working within one or across multiple product delivery teams. 
• Work with our customer facing teams to develop communication strategies that align with our product strategy.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and delivery teams to enable rapid value delivery and ensure success metrics are defined and understood.
• Advocate for Continuous Discovery and Continuous Deployment practices, creating alignment between strategic objectives and delivery plans.
• Act as a point of escalation for removing blockers, resolving conflicts, and ensuring transparent stakeholder communication.

Who we seek

We're looking for an experienced Lead Product Manager who:

• Values collaborative and iterative ways of working, embracing Continuous Discovery and Continuous Deployment principles.
• Is passionate about learning and finding ways to improve product and team effectiveness.
• Has proven expertise in product management, including prioritisation, roadmap ownership, and requirements elicitation.
• Understands the dynamics of empowering cross-functional teams and fostering alignment across stakeholders.
• Is a skilled communicator, capable of building trust and inspiring diverse teams to achieve shared goals.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a bias for taking action.

Our perfect candidate will be:

bold - Putting their ideas forwards and try new things even if they fail.

distinctive - Rebelling in the name of healthy debate, pushing boundaries in the name of better quality.

honest - Being open about successes as well as failures, ready to give and receive feedback.

accountable - Proactively taking responsibility for outcomes, driven to succeed

Our offering

• A highly progressive, innovative, and flexible environment in which each team member can genuinely impact success.
• 5% minimum time allocation for training, with tailored development opportunities to support your growth.
• A competitive salary (reviewed annually), with clear paths for progression and upskilling.
• A hybrid, flexible working environment, allowing for work-life balance and at least three days working from home per week.

You can read more about our complete benefits package here.

Find out more & apply

You can read more about life in our technology teams in our Playbook.

You can found out more about life at AM on our careers site.

And there's loads more detail in the job description and application packs we send out to applicants.