Product Manager
Welcome to an exciting opportunity where ambitious individuals are invited to join a team of inquisitive minds and supportive peers, all driven by a shared passion and diverse skills aimed at creating value for businesses through data.
About Us
We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.
We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.
We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too!
At Ascent, we also believe in fostering a vibrant office community where collaboration thrives and connections flourish. With our hybrid approach, we prioritize hiring individuals who reside in close proximity to our central offices in Bristol and London. Our aim is to cultivate a positive atmosphere and sense of belonging by facilitating easy access to the office. However, we welcome applicants from all other areas in the UK, as we value diversity and recognize the unique perspectives each individual brings to our team. Join us in shaping a workplace where proximity enhances collaboration while inclusivity strengthens our community.
As part of our team, you'll be tasked with:
Are you a multi-skilled consultant? We are looking for people who are happy to turn their hand to multiple activities and roles, from product management, business analysis, service design, and defining user needs to leading small multi-skilled Agile teams and managing client relationships.
You will be pivotal to helping our customers do extraordinary things with software and data. They are engaged in the early stages of customer engagements, particularly around discovery, and stay on through the core of delivery.
Product Managers clearly articulate the vision and direction of an engagement, and champion the delivery of tangible business value to a customer. They break down complex problems into clear, simplified backlog work items that deliver demonstratable value as early as possible.
We’re looking for people who can lead client engagements, get involved in early pre-sales conversations, and take a concept forward through to delivery.
Your role will involve but not be limited to
This role is diverse and varied and, depending on your strengths, you will carry out a range of activities from undertaking customer research, running client workshops, leading design sessions to being a proxy product owner for our clients. No one day will be the same.
You will work with customers across diverse sectors, and complex challenges, on both major transformations (typically 6-18 months) and smaller-scope engagements.
Characteristics of the role could include:
Helping a client design and launch a new Gen AI-powered solution.
Working with a client to research, design and build a new digital service.
Leading a discovery with a client.
Managing the delivery of a new data insights service for a major Enterprise client.
Running co-creation and innovation workshops to generate break through ideas and concepts for client teams across industries.
Developing industry-leading services with other people at Ascent, creating stand out services that combine data, tech, design and commerce that our customers love
We are looking for passionate and driven individuals with
As well as being an all-rounder with a set of skills and knowledge that enable them to bring commercial thinking together with creativity, technology, and data to deliver awesome solutions for our clients; our future Product Manager will need:
Must have experience coordinating software delivery teams creating bespoke solutions, following Agile Software Delivery approaches, such as in the capacity of a Product Manager, Product Owner, Consultant or Service Designer
Experience using Design Thinking and/or Agile/Lean Start-up
Experience leading Discovery exercises to explore a new opportunity or product increment!
Experience using software delivery technologies to manage a product roadmap, such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, or similar
Well-versed in typical product, analysis, or service design methods to define user needs, such as User Story Mapping, Service Blueprints, Wireframes etc
Can tell a story visually, bringing people along the journey of transformation
A passion for innovation and the positive impact that digital transformation can have on value creation
Have a positive, can attitude and an infectious positive energy that enthuses clients and teammates alike
A growth mindset and a passion to continually explore and learn new things
An ability to build relationships and influence at all levels and across multidisciplinary teams (e.g. design, engineering, product, data and function heads)
A client-centred approach ensuring high-quality deliverables, client success and continuous account growth
An ability to make abstract, complicated technical subjects easy to understand.
Insight into Ascent
At Ascent, we're all about connecting data, software, and purpose to achieve remarkable outcomes. Our focus is on facilitating digital transformation by helping our clients solve problems, innovate, and improve existing processes.
As a growing company, we offer numerous opportunities for you to make a difference within your career and your team as well as the broader business. Collaboration and support are at the core of our culture, and you'll have the chance to work on exciting projects alongside talented colleagues and be a part of one of our many communities.
Along with a competitive salary commensurate with your experience, we offer 25 days of annual leave, in addition to public holidays, a contributory pension plan, and other essential benefits.
At Ascent, diversity and inclusion are fundamental principles that guide our actions. We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone is valued and respected, regardless of gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you need any reasonable accommodations during the application process, please inform us.
If you have any questions contact our Talent Acquisition team on ta.admin@ascent.io.
For more details about life at Ascent, check out our Life Page here.