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Lead Product Manager (contractor)

at Kin + Carta Europe

Location: Edinburgh

Department: Product

About Kin + Carta

Want to help build a world that works better for everyone? Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation consultancy that makes a difference to the billions who now use government services, work, play, shop, communicate and share online.

Join a global team of curious and diverse minds in connecting people, data and technology to produce amazing experiences for critical government services, and for some of the world’s most influential companies. Become a maker, builder or creator as we explore the possibilities of sustainable digital technology, helping clients to rapidly innovate, modernise their systems, enable their teams, and optimise for continued growth.

The role in a nutshell: 

We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to join us on a contract basis at Valtech | Kin + Carta working closely with one of our long-standing clients. You will be responsible for working at the intersection of disciplines, to create products that unlock value for users and capture value for clients. We work across the full lifecycle of a product, from hypothesis and execution to growth and optimisation. 

Our Product Managers are user-centric. We understand our clients and their customers. 

Insights gained from regular customer interactions are fed back into product initiatives and business strategy. 

Our Product Managers are strategic. We identify the right problems to solve that create the most value for customers, and help the business achieve their goals. We inspire teams and create alignment by defining a clear vision, strategic purpose, and direction for the products we work on. 

Our Product Managers are outcome-oriented. We safeguard success by measuring outcomes not outputs. We identify leading measures that the product team can influence on the way to achieving business objectives. Changes are measured, and results inform the team’s next step. 

Our Product Managers are comfortable with ambiguity. We fall in love with problems not solutions. We create clarity, even if that exposes uncertainty and complexity. Throughout the product lifecycle we turn insights into actions and experiments, ensuring the team always knows the most valuable thing to explore, test or build next. 

Our Product Managers are collaborative. Our Product Managers aren't CEOs. We ask open questions and work with the whole team to explore the problem and opportunity space. We help the team ensure solutions are desirable for users, viable for the business and feasible to build. 

Our Product Managers are pragmatic. We understand the constraints and challenges of 

different organisations, and know how to be successful in that context. 

What you can expect: 

As a Lead Product Manager, you will be responsible for working in proximity with our client to build a new internal product, ensuring that teams are building the right thing; products that meet business objectives, deliver value and are commercially viable. 

Working within our clients environment you’ll work in close collaboration with our clients multi disciplinary teams and partner closely with client stakeholders to define the product strategy, clarify priorities, validate hypotheses, align around measures of success, and more, to go from idea to successful implementation. 

We are looking for a Product Manager that is able to work on a complex project and capable of working at product leadership level within a programme team.  

The type of person we’d love to meet: 

  • You’ll have extensive Product Management experience ideally within a consultancy environment  
  • Experience in designing and implementing product roadmap management processes within complex environments 
  • Experience navigating an array of stakeholders bringing them on a journey with solid communication, negotiation skills and high emotional intelligence 
  • Experience in cross-functional working, breaking down silos in teams and galvanizing stakeholders to work towards a common outcome 
  • User-centered decision-making backed-up by data - proficient at extracting their own data insights and conducting high-level experiments for validation 
  • Nice to have but not essential: Previous experience in the broadcast/ streaming market 
  • Essential: experience working with roadmap tooling such as (but not limited to); JIRA, airfocus, craft.io, clickup, dragonboat, monday.com 

 
 

Our benefits

Curious minds are nurtured at Kin + Carta through a wide range of benefits including:

Continuous learning Dedicated team learning budget
Hybrid working policy Hybrid remote working policy
Leadership icon Global leadership programmes
Flexible working icon Flexible working hours
present icon Enhanced Christmas leave
dog icon Dog friendly offices
Discounted private healthcare Subsidised private healthcare
Affordable gym membership Discounted gym membership

Apply for this role

Whoever you are, wherever you’re from and whoever you love, you’ll find an open door at Kin + Carta. It’s yours to walk through if you’re passionate about building a better world for everyone, and you’re keen to be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that plays to people’s strengths and thrives on togetherness.