Senior Product Manager
22 hours ago
Southampton
The Senior Product Manager – Innovation Engine role is the driving force behind our early-stage discovery, rapid experimentation, and concept development across the business. You will be turning ambiguous problems and emerging opportunities into validated concepts that can be scaled by product delivery teams. Expect to be buried in data, crunching the most intricate energy market problems and thinking about how energy data can serve various customers from energy and non-energy sectors alike. This role sits within the Product and Innovation Team and works closely with Product Owners, UX/Product Design, Business Analysts, Engineering and wider company stakeholders to test ideas quickly, reduce risk, and accelerate value creation. Your mission: Prioritise high-value opportunities, validate them, shape them into actionable product concepts and partner with Product Owners for delivery. Key Responsibilities • Run a small “Innovation Engine” team, sitting within the broader Product and Innovation Team. Develop processes, rituals and ways of working to accelerate both technical and non-technical innovation., • Discovery and Prioritisation: Run structured discovery using product frameworks (e.g., design thinking, lean startup, jobs-to-be-done, etc)., • Experimentation and Validation: Create hypotheses and define experiments to validate them. Develop low-fidelity prototypes to support experiments and stakeholder alignment., • Concept Development, Prototyping and MVP specs, supported by opportunity sizing, operational insight and technical feasibility assessments. You will be working with UX and Engineering, alongside the Product Team to enable greenfield opportunities mature to scalable products., • Portfolio and Process Contribution – manage the wider Innovation Engine process by evaluating, sizing and resourcing new ideas and opportunities. You will be framing problems, influencing decisions, and running cross-functional workshops (design sprints, ideation, story mapping). Skills and Experience • 5+ years’ experience in B2B Product Management (preferably across discovery-heavy environments)., • Ability to manage product design and technical development through the product development cycle., • Data-informed decision-making, with comfort defining and interpreting experiment results., • Strong commercial thinking and ability to assess opportunity value., • Familiarity with product and collaboration tools such as Figma, Confluence, Jira, Miro/Lucid or similar, • Energy market experience highly desirable. Your typical week will involve • Innovation Engine – discovery and concept development for greenfield product ideas (75%): assessing and prioritising new ideas via a structured discovery and prioritisation framework; developing ideas into concepts and prototypes, translating prototypes into MVP requirements and release plans., • Supporting evolution of the existing product portfolio (10%): Assist product owners with enhancements and new feature development for the existing portfolio of data products., • Collaborative problem solving and stakeholder engagement (15%) staying well-versed within the wider business organisation and understanding key business processes to ensure we communicate clearly with the key stakeholders and have no blind spots in our innovation initiatives. What’s in it for you: 💻 Hybrid/ Flexible working including a 4 day week! 🩺 Private healthcare you and for family which includes pre-existing conditions· ❤ Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health Cover 💷 Company bonus and annual pay reviews· 📚 Annual training budget and quarterly reviews to support your professional development· 🚗 Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme· 🏋️ Discounted gym membership through gymflex 💃 Monthly social events organised by our Social Committee Why we work for ElectraLink: We have won awards for: • Best Tech Place to Work 2025 at the National Technology Awards, • Technology Company of the Year 2025 and Best Place to Work in Data 2024 at the British Data Awards, • Best Employer for Women (under 500 Employees) 2025 at the Women in Utilities Awards, • Employer of the Year 2025 at the ___ Awards, • A two-star outstanding accreditation from Best Companies for three years running! As you would expect from a business with ambitious growth plans, we are continually evolving and looking to the future, with investment in the business, its people, and your career. We do this through: 🤝🏻 Open lines of communication throughout the business- your voice matters! 🙌🏻 Regular Employee Forum meetings to gather suggestions from the business on making ElectraLink an even better place to work! 🌍 Innovative and open to new ideas to support our net-zero status 📈 Exciting, innovative and fast moving company which is growing 👏 High challenge, high support working environment. If this sounds like the role for you, we would love for you to get in touch. Unfortunately, we cannot provide sponsorship at this time. ElectraLink is a growing data and technology company, established at the core of the UK energy sector. The company offers exceptional expertise regarding the industry's challenges and opportunities. While it is an exciting and fast-moving time for the UK energy industry, which continues to offer a wide range of opportunities for ElectraLink, the data and insight that ElectraLink manages and creates is beginning to mean that we are participating much more widely in UK PLC and our potential role in the smart data revolution is considerable. ElectraLink is owned by the energy distributors and manages, on behalf of the UK energy market participants, the regulated data transfer infrastructure they rely on to operate the market. We work closely with all UK energy stakeholders such as energy suppliers, distributors and metering organisations, as well as the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero and Ofgem (the industry regulator). We also engage more widely in the smart data landscape and have begun working with sectors including Fintech, finance more widely and real estate. Our unmatched market reach and access to market participants means we have a unique data set that provides a view of the entire UK energy market, combined with the ability to offer advanced data analytics and energy market insights. Our position at the heart of the UK energy industry also gives us a unique capability to provide other services crucial to the gas and electricity markets and beyond: • We provide unique market insight through analysis of the DTS and other market data that we process in our central industry role., • Our reputation for impartiality and energy market expertise makes us an ideal partner in the implementation and change management of energy industry Governance arrangements., • Our established data transfer infrastructure supports the development of more efficient market processes at a time of rapid energy industry change., • The nature of the smart data and insights we hold provide vital context and validation to other markets such as the validation of green finance decisions All of this means we can actively contribute as a thought leader, innovator, and service provider. It also means we are able to exploit opportunities in non-energy markets as the role of Data Intermediary is defined as part of the Data Act.