Role: Senior Technical Product Manager
Salary: £69,520 - £86,900 per annum DOE
Location: Cheltenham - Hybrid

We are partnering with this exceptional client, an organisation that is inventing the future of flight. They are a world leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for both commercial and military aircraft.
For their team, this work is far more than a job, it's a passion and a purpose. They operate as one united team, accountable to one another and to their customers, always pushing to find better ways to climb higher together.

Job Description
Responsible for operating in lock step with product management teams to create a clear strategic direction for development needs and conveys that vision to the build and/or operations team. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Product Owners and Developers.

Roles and Responsibilities
*Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organisation to gain the competitive edge.
*Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
*Works with cross functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.
*Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
*Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
*Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
*Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
*Owns the release and sprint backlogs short term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
*Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritises to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
*Prioritise continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
*Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
*Engages with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
*Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
*Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
*Mentors junior team members. Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organisation.
*Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.

Minimum Qualifications:
*Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college
*Professional experience in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) field.
*Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience

Experience
*Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
*Experience working in an Agile environment
*Familiarity with versatile implementation options
*Demonstrates knowledge on technical topics, such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security
*Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
*Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
*Has the ability to analyse impact of technology choices
*Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesised perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.
*Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
*Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions
*Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
*Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
*Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value and identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Total Rewards
Flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible  
- Non-contributory Pension              
- Life Assurance   
- Group income protection                
- Private medical cover        
- Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sell
- Flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.

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If suitable please apply or contact Natasha directly for more information on (url removed)