Job Description

Digital Product Lead - Mobile App (EE)



Job Req ID: 25858



Posting Date: 15 Nov 2023



Function: Product & Propositions



Location: 1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom



Salary: Competitive





Reporting to the Product Lead for Web & App, the Product Lead will oversee our key shared capability teams across App capability as well as our Design System. Customer and platform centric thinking is key for this role, as well as a solid understanding of app release roll-outs and hands-on experience coordinating and influencing larger projects in a multi-tribe organisation to ensure we have a holistic approach to building world-class experiences.


Our App Capability team helps to provide the core architecture of our app experience and acts as the central layer of governance when it comes to broader strategic app changes as well as our fortnightly release train.


As part of a Shared Capability function, as well as catering for the end customer, your end customer will also be other internal teams. As such, experience with platform centric thinking and Design Systems would be ideal.


What you\'ll be doing:

• Act as a central point of contact for the App overall
• Be able to own and inform key decisions regarding overall quality of the experiences we ship, taking into account trade-offs and impacts to the customer and business
• Coordinate cross-organisational journey squads for experience previews to ensure that we have a holistic approach to the experiences we deliver and that we\xe2\x80\x99re placing the customer at the heart of everything we do
• Build by influence, making compelling and clearly rationalised cases for experience improvements
• Participate in daily app standups, supporting the broader team on day-to-day emerging topics
• Governance creation and implementation: create quality gates and processes that ensure quality is our primary focus
• Work with engineers, designers and solution architects to identify solutions to new customer needs and business requirements
• Assist with on-going analysis of Performance optimisation across the App
• Drive the identification and reporting of risks, as well as risk resolution and mitigation
• Assist with super-charging adoption of our design system. You will ideally have experience with design system roll-outs
• Mentor, coach, and manage a team to develop current and future team capabilities and ensure performance

Skills and experience you\'ll be expected to have:

• Significant experience in product management
• Direct experience as an app product manager (iOS and Android), ideally with some experience at a group / principal PM level
• Demonstratable experience with app release roll-outs, triaging and release risk mitigation strategies (feature toggling, throttling) in a cross-discipline organisation with multiple teams / tribes all contributing to a single experience
• Process and quality driven mindset: have a proven track record of implementing processes that improve efficiency and overall quality governance
• Holistic experience mindset: be able to showcase how you have gained visibility of experience changes outside your area of responsibility and intervened to improve customer journeys
• Management experience of at least 2 direct reports
• Data-driven mindset: hands-on experience with analytics tooling, making data driven decisions and showcasing results
• Excellent communicator: able to tailor your story-telling to different types of audiences

What you\'ll get in return:

• Hyrbid working (3 days in the office, 2 wherever)
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 15% on target bonus
• Company car cash allowance
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme
• Private Medical cover
• Direct share scheme
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
• 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says \xe2\x80\x98We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It\xe2\x80\x99s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.\xe2\x80\x99
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you\xe2\x80\x99ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won\xe2\x80\x99t be alone: we\xe2\x80\x99ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.


A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you\xe2\x80\x99re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
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