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About the Role

Seeking a Freelance Senior Product Manager with a strong background in digital transformation and product consulting to join a cross-functional delivery team. This role involves launching new propositions by mixing entrepreneurial thinking with global organization resources, validating desirability, building, and launching new digital products and services. The position requires leading, influencing, and collaborating with cross-functional teams, acting as a liaison between the Red Badger team and the client, driving the product vision, owning the backlog, and connecting business strategy with end-user value.

Responsibilities

Define and drive clients' product strategy and vision.
Lead multi-disciplinary teams in designing, validating, and building cutting-edge products and services.
Work with senior/executive stakeholders to identify and overcome organizational challenges impacting product delivery.
Identify and prioritize user value, balancing business and user needs for successful product launches and iterations.
Champion the product discipline on complex digital transformation projects.
Advocate for Product Management, User-Centred Design methodologies, lean approaches to user testing, research, and data-driven UXD.
Drive continuous improvement, quality, and project delivery, facilitating difficult tradeoffs to deliver user value quickly.
Become a trusted advisor to clients by collaborating to solve problems and create products/services delivering business and user value.
Build strong relationships with leadership teams of industry-leading organizations.
Rapidly build domain expertise within client industries, understand markets and user segments, and help identify new ones.
Communicate with confidence to a broad range of stakeholders and client teams.
Proactively understand and share macro and micro-economic trends and their impact on future products.
Support building, hiring, and inspiring Product Strategists and Managers aligned with Red Badger’s values.
Provide leadership and mentorship to a team of Product Strategists and Managers.
Encourage thought leadership and help develop industry-leading value propositions for Red Badger.
Champion Red Badger’s ways of working: cross-functional teams, agile and lean best practices, building quality in.
Understand and communicate the complete value chain (Engineering, QA, UXD, Insights and Delivery).
Act as an ambassador for Red Badger, advocating for 'doing the right thing' and 'doing the thing right', supporting and enabling others.

Requirements

Expertise in product discipline, willing to share knowledge and experience internally and externally.
Proven track record of identifying user and business needs, testing product/market fit, incubating, and launching new digital products and services successfully in complex environments.
Experience in large-scale digital product development, preferably with agency or consultancy background.
Ability to use data to drive decisions and help others do the same.
Exceptional communication, negotiation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to tailor messages to the audience.
Growth mindset: continuous learning, curiosity, willingness to test and learn from failure.
Proactive approach to identifying and implementing improvements.
Honest and direct communication style with clear points of view.
Ability to play a key role in the future success of Red Badger and demonstrate involvement in strategic growth initiatives.
Embody Red Badger’s principles and encourage these traits in others.
Participation and interest in professional industry groups and communities, attending or speaking at conferences, and engaging with others in the discipline.

Skills

Product Strategy
Product Vision
Digital Transformation
Product Consulting
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Backlog Ownership
Stakeholder Management
User-Centred Design
Lean Methodologies
User Testing
Data-Driven UXD
Agile Methodologies
Communication
Negotiation
Facilitation

Location

Central London

Work Type

Hybrid
Contract
Outside IR35

Experience Level

Senior
Principal

Salary/Compensations

£day rate

About the Company

Founded in 2010, Red Badger helps large organizations improve speed to market and deliver value to users and customers.
They work with clients to understand problems, validate ideas, and deliver improved process efficiencies, strategic enhancements, and new/improved digital products and services.
Red Badger is a team of 100+ individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a supportive and fun work environment.
The company has over 10 years of experience, is consistently profitable, and has grown responsibly.
They are entering a new phase of growth and development.

Equal Opportunity

Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment.
Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Hires, employs, trains, promotes, and compensates regardless of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, creed, and color.
Fully focused on equality and believes that differences enable them to do amazing work for clients.