Product Manager (Team Lead - Product)

Purpose The Team Lead – Product is accountable for establishing a high-performance product execution system that ensures delivery teams can rapidly scale, continuously optimise, and seamlessly integrate across global platforms. The role focuses on driving operational efficiency, leveraging data insights, and enabling speed to market for product improvements that support GDT’s growth and market adoption strategy. As a commercially accountable leader, the role integrates product operations, customer insight systems, experimentation capability and product performance measurement to ensure the product team can rapidly learn from market signals and continuously improve product outcomes. The role operates as a key member of the Product Team, contributing to operational alignment, prioritisation discipline and cross-functional integration across Product, Technology, Marketing and Commercial teams. Key Accountabilities The role is accountable for ensuring product execution systems enable consistent, scalable and future-ready product performance. This is achieved through system design, governance, prioritisation and direct operational execution. All accountabilities are executed in alignment with organisational strategy, informed by data-driven insights and underpinned by clear performance measures. Product Operations System & Delivery Rhythm: Accountable for the design, stewardship and evolution of the product operations system that governs how product teams plan, execute and review work. Establish clear operating rhythms including planning cycles, delivery cadences, product reviews and governance forums. Ensure product teams operate with consistent execution discipline while maintaining flexibility to respond to market signals. Product Metrics & Analytics Systems: Accountable for establishing and maintaining product performance measurement systems that provide clear visibility into product outcomes. Define product metrics frameworks, dashboards and reporting standards that allow teams to monitor adoption, engagement, performance and value creation. Ensure product decisions are supported by reliable and accessible performance data. Customer Insights & Operational Data: Accountable for the systems that capture and translate customer and usage data into actionable insights for product teams. Ensure behavioural data, user feedback and operational signals are systematically collected, analysed and surfaced to inform product prioritisation and improvement opportunities. Experimentation & A/B Testing Capability: Accountable for establishing experimentation frameworks that enable product teams to test hypotheses and validate product improvements. Implement structured A/B testing practices, experimentation governance and learning loops that enable rapid iteration and evidence-based decision-making. Product Governance & Execution Discipline: Ensure product initiatives operate within clear governance frameworks including prioritisation protocols, decision rights and performance monitoring. Establish transparency around product progress and ensure leadership has visibility into delivery status, risks and performance outcomes. Product Enablement & Capability Development: Support product teams with the tools, processes and operational guidance required to execute effectively. Ensure teams have access to the systems, data and operational practices required to deliver products efficiently and continuously improve performance. Acquisition & Engagement System Optimisation: Ensure product systems support the efficient onboarding, engagement, and retention of sellers and buyers. Streamline product adoption processes and optimise workflows to ensure GDT scales quickly and integrates seamlessly with the platform’s growth engines. This involves refining onboarding UX/UI, simplifying processes for users, and ensuring operational scalability to accommodate high-volume engagement. Data-Driven Product Optimisation: Leverage operational data and insights to optimise product performance, influence the development of data-driven features, and support GDT’s journey toward data monetisation. Develop frameworks that measure the performance of data products, monitor user behaviour, and continuously optimise product offerings to maximise the value generated from GDT’s data. Platform Scalability & Integration: Ensure product systems are aligned with the architecture and vision for the next-generation platform. Work closely with the Product and Technology teams to integrate scalable and flexible product systems that enable GDT to expand quickly and efficiently while maintaining a seamless user experience across platforms. Cross-Functional Product System Integration: Ensure product execution systems integrate effectively with Technology, Marketing, Sales, and Commercial operations. Establish collaboration mechanisms with Technology, Marketing, Sales, and Customer teams to ensure product priorities are clearly understood and operationally supported. Minimise organisational friction and ensure product systems operate as a coherent enterprise capability. Product Team Membership: Fulfill GDT Clear team member accountabilities and engage as an active partner with the Product Team - contributing operational perspectives and participating in collaborative decision-making, including making enterprise-level trade-offs beyond functional interests when required. Experience & Capabilities Skills & Experience Experience leading product operations, product analytics or product enablement systems Strong capability in designing product operating models and execution frameworks Experience establishing product metrics systems, dashboards and performance reporting Demonstrated experience implementing experimentation frameworks including A/B testing Experience translating customer and behavioural data into product insights Experience working in cross-functional environments involving product, technology and commercial teams Demonstrated ability to build systems that enable product teams to execute effectively Personal Attributes Systems thinker with strong operational discipline Data-driven and analytical with strong attention to performance metrics Excellent judgement and prioritisation capability Pragmatic and improvement-focused Resilient, adaptable and execution-oriented Collaborative and team-oriented, working across departments to ensure consistency and alignment Success Indicators Product teams operating with consistent delivery rhythm and execution discipline Reliable product metrics systems enabling clear performance visibility Rapid learning loops through experimentation and A/B testing Customer and usage insights consistently informing product improvements Reduced execution friction and improved product team productivity Strong cross-functional alignment across Product, Technology, Marketing and Commercial teams Note: GDT Clear is GDT 's organisational framework, inspired by Requisite Organisation principles, ensuring work complexity matches capability, roles have clear accountability and authority, and organisational structures support long-term value creation. #J-18808-Ljbffr