Role overview

Qualifications

Experience as a Product Manager working in agile, multidisciplinary teams.
Strong ability to shape problem statements, define metrics, and manage product direction.
Comfortable working with data, technical teams, and research findings to inform decisions.
Skilled in backlog prioritisation, roadmap planning, and translating strategy into delivery.

Responsibilities

Refine and validate problem statements, success metrics, and value baselines across multiple initiatives.
Define product vision, objectives, and measurable outcomes for Discovery and Alpha phases.
Work with delivery, engineering, research, and design teams to prioritise backlogs and ensure clarity of scope.
Translate insights, user needs, technical constraints, and organisational goals into actionable product decisions.

Key facts

Remote from: United Kingdom
Full time
Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
Product Manager (Tech)
English

Hard skills

Product Management Performance Metric Cross-Functional Collaboration Option Valuation Product Software Implementation Method Data-Driven Decision Making Agile Software Development User Research Software Prototyping Backlogs Capability Assessment Feasibility Studies Usability Testing Product Strategy Strategic Roadmaps Stakeholder Engagement

Other skills

Teamwork
Communication

About the company

Olive Jar Digital

Olive Jar Digital has extensive experience in building highly secure, resilient, highly available and scalable websites. We focus on user experience and only build what the end user needs and understands. We deliver our projects using the Agile methodology, in particular Scrum and Kanban. This enables us to deliver on time, on budget and focus on priorities that could shift at any moment. The consultants we engage are either people that we have worked with over the years, have been recommended based on their performance, or have been interviewed and tested by us first. With Olive Jar you get a professional, honest service where we look to build a relationship with you and support you over the years to come. We believe that in order to track the quality of performance effectively, our delivery team, the end client, and our account management team need to buy into a Continual Service Feedback and Improvement ethos. The resources we can provide include: • Full Agile Teams • Delivery Managers • Business Analysts • Technical Architects • Scrum Masters • User Experience Designers • Visual Designer • User Researchers • Developers / Developers in Test • Testers Specialties: IT Consultancy, Software Support, Software Development, Website Design, Agile Delivery, Continuous Delivery

Company details

Company size11 - 50

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Job description

FTC or Permanent
UK-wide, Remote

About the role
Olive Jar Digital is looking for a Product Manager to lead the definition, direction, and evolution of several AI-driven initiatives through Discovery and Alpha. You will shape clear problem definitions, establish success metrics, guide prototyping efforts, and ensure that each initiative delivers validated user and business value.

Working alongside delivery, engineering, design, data and research teams, you will act as the central point for product strategy and decision-making, ensuring that the work is grounded in user needs, technical feasibility, and measurable value.

About Olive Jar Digital
As we grow, we empower our teams to develop their roles and functions and offer support to get you from where you are now, to where you want to be. Moving towards our 11th year, we are now an established brand, building digital products and services and championing the provision of expert talent to enhance customer and in-house teams, satisfying all user needs.

We are a professional, fun, fully Inclusive and diverse digital consultancy, valuing everyone’s opinion. With a huge growth plan over the next two years, we are looking to expand our client facing delivery team with designers, developers, and testers as we continue to expand our project portfolio.

Responsibilities

Refine and validate problem statements, success metrics, and value baselines across multiple initiatives.
Define product vision, objectives, and measurable outcomes for Discovery and Alpha phases.
Work with delivery, engineering, research, and design teams to prioritise backlogs and ensure clarity of scope.
Translate insights, user needs, technical constraints, and organisational goals into actionable product decisions.
Support prototyping activities, ensuring concepts align with user needs, feasibility, and strategic intent.
Review findings from user research, testing, and evaluations to guide iteration and next-stage recommendations.
Contribute to final assessment reports, including options appraisal and readiness recommendations.

About You

Experience as a Product Manager working in agile, multidisciplinary teams.
Strong ability to shape problem statements, define metrics, and manage product direction. Comfortable working with data, technical teams, and research findings to inform decisions.
Skilled in backlog prioritisation, roadmap planning, and translating strategy into delivery.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-engagement abilities.

Benefits

25 Days Annual Leave per annum (plus 8 Bank Holidays as standard)
Health Insurance
Pension Scheme
Annual Bonus Scheme
Annual Salary Review
Electric Car Scheme