Product Manager
Paxton Access Ltd
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Brighton • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Join our team in Brighton where you'll manage the lifecycle of our software products, driving strategy, development, and delivery to ensure they meet customer, market, and business needs.
- Own the full lifecycle of one or more software products, from discovery through to launch, iteration and end-of-life.
- Act as Product Owner for your product area, owning the product vision, roadmap, backlog, and ensuring alignment with customer and business needs.
- Lead agile delivery through clear user stories, prioritised backlogs, sprint planning, and close collaboration with engineering teams.
- Use Jira to manage sprints, dependencies, reporting, and release planning.
- Monitor product performance using KPIs such as adoption, usage, customer satisfaction and commercial outcomes.
- Translate customer, market, and business needs into clear functional and non-functional requirements.
- Collaborate closely with engineering and architecture teams to support API design, integrations, scalability, and technical decision-making.
- Manage the Change Control Board (CCB) process, including impact assessments and priority decisions for software changes.
- Visit end users, installers, and key customers to gather insights, feedback and usage data to influence product direction.
- Work cross‑functionally with Development, Marketing, Sales, Support and Information Design to ensure solutions are technically strong, user‑centred and commercially viable.
- Support marketing teams with product messaging, positioning, and the creation of accurate value propositions.
- Produce and maintain product documentation including requirements, release notes, API inputs and internal training materials.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Product Manager / Product Owner delivering software products, with strong backlog ownership and sprint planning capability.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear business and customer value.
- Strong decision‑making skills with the ability to balance customer needs, technical constraints, and commercial priorities.
- Confident working with cross‑functional stakeholders including engineering, architecture and senior leadership.
- Solid understanding of software development lifecycles, with experience in SaaS, APIs, or cloud‑based platforms beneficial.
Benefits
- We run a great social calendar with wine tasting, cooking classes, onsite yoga, staff parties, monthly internal events and more. It’s rare you won’t see something going on!
- Hybrid working, work from home on Tuesday and Thursdays alongside our flexible working hours scheme.
- Private medical insurance (Opt in) and healthcare cash-back plan with Health Shield.
- Join a Carbon Neutral company – Paxton is Carbon Neutral in the UK, France, Germany & South Africa!
- Modern offices, collaboration spaces, onsite mini-gym, and a gourmet café with subsidised food.
- Discounted fitness memberships up to 75% off in your area with GymFlex.
- Collaborative internal group initiatives like the Green Team, EDI Team, or the Charity Team.
- Tech, bike, and travel or season ticket loans.
- 25-days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can buy & sell up to 5 days a year.
- Recognised as one of the Best Companies to Work for in the UK, by Best Companies™.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementbacklog managementsprint planningAPI designsoftware development lifecyclerequirements gatheringKPI monitoringcloud-based platformsSaaSfunctional requirements
Soft Skills
communicationdecision-makingcollaborationcustomer focusstrategic thinkingleadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilitystakeholder managementuser-centered design