Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.
We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market.
The Role: Product Manager - Native Apps (Customer)
Location: London office / Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Reporting to: Senior Product Manager
We are on a mission to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month and our website and apps receive over 140 million visits per month. This role joins at an exciting time as we grow the Native Apps team who are responsible for end-to-end experiences on our iOS & Android apps. These platforms are the home of some of our most engaged consumers and will play a crucial role as we develop the leading digital ecosystem for the whole moving experience.
The Product Development team at Rightmove plays a pivotal role in delivering the overall consumer and customer digital experience underpinning the Rightmove business. We recognise that to deliver the best products and features for our customers and consumers we need to work together effectively as a healthy, high performing team. This role reports into a Senior Product Manager responsible for our Native Apps teams. The Native Apps Customer team works closely with teams in the Customer domain and other Native Apps teams to deliver compelling App experiences that create value for Consumers and our Core Customer base.
A Typical Week as a Product Manager Might Involve :
Manage the ownership and monitoring of the products and functionality owned by the team through use of the objectives and KPIs you will define
Create and validate business cases that underpin the product/initiative, with clear definition of opportunity, costs, and benefit
Proactively contribute to initiatives that aim to improve our customer or consumer experience, both identifying your own contribution and supporting others in theirs
Initiate and/or undertake any analysis to highlight any impacts to systems or business processes
Take an active role in the experience discovery of initiatives and products, working closely with Product Designers and Researchers to define the approach
Collaborates with user experience specialists and visual designers to re-work existing experiences, as well as creating new ones
Spends time understanding what motivates our customers and ensuring they are up to date with industry insights
Generates unique ideas, resourceful in identifying opportunities, and encourages innovation within the team
Works with engineers and technical architects to understand technology limitations, recommendations and development options
Accountable for requirements definition and delivery of solutions across your product/initiatives
Maintain a backlog of improvements for your area, clearly describing how they support our overall business goals and work with the Senior Product Manager & Head of Product to prioritise these alongside the wider priorities for the domain and product function
Work with Senior Product Manager & the Head of Product to help shape the strategic direction, vision and objectives for our Core Customers (whilst ensuring close alignment to the broader Apps priorities) based on clear rational, analysis and insights
We are looking for someone who:
Can lead product discovery, culminating in clear recommendations and, where relevant, the best approaches for delivery
Has experience delivering successful end-to-end delivery of software products in a technology-led company
Takes responsibility for a product and deliver it with an autonomous delivery team
Makes data informed decisions, leveraging quantitative and qualitative insights
Is passionate about delivering quality experience and software to end users
Has excellent organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to multitask and make tough calls
Effectively manages relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, alignment on product goals, and collaboration throughout the product lifecycle
Sets and measures clear, realistic and timely goals
Builds a deep understanding of how an organisation is run, both commercially and operationally
Actively encourages contributions from all those around them recognising the value of team members input when solving problems
Thinks long term, and will drive the vision for the product their team is working on
Has found the agile philosophy to be second nature
Comfortable describing the technical implementation of their product
Desire to learn and improve themselves and the processes within the team
Is equally comfortable and engaged negotiating the roadmap with product leaders, presenting to senior leaders, or discussing implementation with our engineers.