Head of Product (Digital)
Description
Music wouldn't exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We're here to represent them and ensure that they are rewarded for their creations. Over a century in the making, we are a global leader in the industry and always take centre stage.
The Role
Overview
The Head of Product reports to the Director of IT and is a member of their management team, working closely with peers to ensure good collaboration, contributing and continuous improvement of the wider IT organisation.
Alongside this you’ll be working closely with stakeholders to ensure that business needs are understood and translated into product requirements and are ready for delivery.
Stakeholder management is a critical success factor for this role and the Head of Product will make sure that stakeholders views and strategic goals are represented in the definition of product features and functions. They must be highly skilled communicators, able to work with senior stakeholders at the conceptual level and synthesise their vision into a coherent product artefact.
The Head of Product leads a team of Product Owners and UX designers (~4 direct reports) and ensures that they work in line with best practices within their respective disciplines and that they interface effectively with business stakeholders and the delivery teams involved in product development, both internal and external to the organisation.
The Head of Product must create and maintain processes which objectively measure product performance and ensure that effective feedback loops are implemented to promote continuous improvement.
The Head of Product must lead from the front by example and will be expected to coach and mentor their team, remaining hands on, augmenting skills and capacity, removing obstacles and issues, and acting as a Product Owner where needed.
The team work closely with teams across PRS to develop digital experiences for our members, customers and business partners. Our work is informed by Agile practice and user insight, to continually deliver fixes and features.
Our members love their digital experience because it gives them more time to focus on doing what they love, making music. Our customers love their digital experience because they can easily find the licence that’s best for their business. And we love to create these digital experiences because we’re passionate about making a tangible impact on income, efficiency and user experience.
As our Head of Product, some of your day to day duties will include….
- Work with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate these into product requirements.
- Work with development teams to ensure that products delivered meet requirements.
- Monitor and report on the overall performance of products, identifying appropriate and relevant KPIs to communicate across teams and with stakeholders.
- Represent the product team to other departments and stakeholders.
- Build and maintain trusted and effective relationships with key stakeholders.
- Introduce and stay abreast of product management best practices.
- Research industry and market trends, including competitor analysis, to inform product development.
- Work closely with the Director of IT to ensure that the product team collaborates effectively with other teams.
- Recruit, manage and coach Product Owners and UX Designers
Requirements
At PRS for Music, we want you to bring the best version of yourself to work every day. Along with being whoever you want to be, you will also have…
Education, Training and Certification
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- Agile Methodologies
- Product Owner
- Product Management
Experience
- 5 years in an adjacent or similar product management function including line management responsibility
- Proven experience of implementing and improving product management functions
- Proven experience of managing product development in multi-sourced environments
- Proven experience working closely with development teams to transition product ideas into production, as a product owner working in an Agile context
- Proven experience of managing a budget and cost tracking in a diverse operational context
Skills and key behaviours
- Knowledge of product management processes and best practices
- Strong analytical and numerical ability, highly organised
- Capable and confident communicator, written and verbal, able to influence and manage stakeholders at all levels up to senior leadership
- People oriented, leads by example, and motivates others to fully engage and to work collaboratively
- Encourages diversity of thought, recognising contributions and concerns from team members of all backgrounds
- Empathises with user and stakeholder frustrations, capable of dealing with people in a calm, professional and effective manner
- Self-starter who will actively seek out innovative opportunities to deliver value, whilst ensuring alignment to the overall strategy and priorities
- Commercial approach, ensuring that products deliver maximum value to the business
- Ambitious and energetic with the desire to bring their own ideas to fruition
We know that the world isn’t always ideal, so please don’t rule yourself out if you have other qualities to bring to the party.
Benefits & Perks
What’s in it for you?
Joining the band here at PRS for Music is so much more than just a day job! Below are just a few notes that set us apart from the crowd.
We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference
We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity
We are consciously inclusive and have 8 Affinity Groups which you can join and make an impact - LGBTQ+, Mental Health, Parents & Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Disability (including neurodiversity) and Social Economic.
Our benefits
We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward
- Our Rhythm allows for flexibility at the start, middle and end of your working day
- We offer hybrid working , allowing you to work remotely and from our London Bridge Hub
- We know time to rest and recharge is important therefore we offer 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days
- Work from anywhere in the world, for up to 8 weeks of the year
- We offer a range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity & paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support.
- A whole range of other benefits, including retail discounts, time off to volunteer with our charity partners, gym discounts and the option to spread the cost of your travel into the office via a season ticket loan or bicycle loan.
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PRS for Music represents the rights of songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK and around the world. As a membership organisation it works to ensure that creators are paid whenever their musical compositions and songs are streamed, downloaded, broadcast, performed and played in public. In 2021, 27 trillion performances of music were reported to PRS for Music with £677.2m paid out in royalties to its members, making it one of the world’s leading music collective management organisations. PRS for Music’s public performance licensing is now carried out on PRS for Music’s behalf by PPL PRS Ltd, the new joint venture between PPL and PRS for Music. **Our purpose** To grow and protect the value of music rights entrusted to us. **Our code** To fairly and accuratley distribute royalties with market-leading transparency and efficiency. **Our vision** To provide world-leading music rights management services for our rightsholders and music users delivering: