Senior Product Manager - 12 Month FTC

About the role

<p></p> <p><em><strong>This position is fully remote/home based. Applications will be accepted from candidates based in the UK. This is a 12 month FTC.</strong></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Role Summary</strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">PLOS is a nonprofit Open Access publisher with an ambitious mission: to help transform research communication so that science can be shared, understood and used more effectively.&nbsp;</span><span data-contrast="auto">We're&nbsp;looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Product team for a 12-month maternity cover contract.</span> <span data-contrast="auto">It's&nbsp;an interesting time to join us.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Research publishing is changing rapidly. Researchers' expectations are changing. Technology is creating possibilities that&nbsp;didn't&nbsp;exist a few years ago. And at PLOS&nbsp;we're&nbsp;rethinking some of the services, systems and assumptions that have shaped scholarly publishing for decades.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">That means there are interesting product&nbsp;</span><em><span data-contrast="auto">problems</span></em><span data-contrast="auto">&nbsp;to solve - not just features to deliver.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You'll&nbsp;take responsibility for a product area and work with designers,&nbsp;engineers&nbsp;and colleagues across PLOS to understand the problems that matter, work out where we can make the greatest difference and help the team learn its way towards good solutions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Although this is a fixed-term role, it&nbsp;isn't&nbsp;a caretaker role.&nbsp;You'll&nbsp;be joining active product teams working on significant problems and will have plenty of opportunity to shape what we do and how we do it.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">How we work</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We want our product teams to be curious, evidence-led&nbsp;and comfortable with uncertainty.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We&nbsp;don't&nbsp;expect a Product Manager to arrive with all the answers. We do expect them to ask good questions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You'll&nbsp;use continuous discovery alongside delivery: spending time with users, looking at data, understanding the wider service,&nbsp;identifying&nbsp;assumptions&nbsp;and finding practical ways to test them.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You'll&nbsp;help the team break large problems into smaller things we can learn from, rather than waiting until everything is known before we release something.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">And&nbsp;you'll&nbsp;make the team's thinking visible - explaining what&nbsp;we're&nbsp;trying to achieve, what&nbsp;we've&nbsp;learned, what&nbsp;we're&nbsp;uncertain about and why&nbsp;we're&nbsp;making the choices we are.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">As a Senior Product Manager,&nbsp;you'll:</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Understand the problem.</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">&nbsp;Build a deep understanding of our users, their&nbsp;needs&nbsp;and behaviours, as well as the organisational,&nbsp;operational&nbsp

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