<ul> <li>Joining a cross functional Delivery team (software engineers, delivery, QA, UX, design)</li> <li>Client is in financial services domain </li> <li>ILarge platform and product build inc. customer journeys.</li> <li>Ideal start date 23rd July 2026</li> <li>6 months contract - likely to extend</li> <li>£day rate / outside IR35</li> <li>2 days / week in person working </li> <li>Immediate interviews.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Red Badger</strong></span></p> <p>Founded in 2010 by Stuart, Cain and David, we help large organisations improve their speed to market whilst focusing on delivering value to their users and customers. We work with our clients to understand their problems and validate ideas in order to deliver improved process efficiencies, strategic enhancements and new digital products and services (or make significant improvements to existing ones).</p> <p>The best bit about Red Badger is, of course, the team. We’ve been around for 10+ years now and we are 100 strong. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages.</p> <p>Our 3 founders have considerable tech and consultancy experience and still own the company. We’ve been consistently profitable and have grown responsibly from the beginning. We are embarking on the next phase of growth and development.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Role</strong></span></p> <p>We are looking for a Freelance Senior Product Manager, with a strong background in digital transformation and product consulting to join one of our cross-functional delivery teams. </p> <p>We are excited about the opportunity to mix Red Badger’s entrepreneurial, startup thinking with the resources of global organisations to unlock speed to impact in launching new propositions.</p> <p>As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll start our projects on the right track, setting a high bar for quality and providing deep discipline expertise to validate desirability, build and launch new digital products and services. You’ll be responsible for leading, influencing and working with cross-functional teams to deliver successful outcomes for our clients. You’ll be a conduit between the Red Badger team and the client, co-creating and driving the product vision, owning the backlog and connecting the business strategy with end-user value.</p> <p>You’ll provide end-to-end Product leadership, co-creating and validating the product desirability, owning the backlog and connecting the business strategy with end-user value. When part of a starter team you’ll be able to work hands-on, researching, validating, designing, building and launching successful new digital products and services.</p> <p>The Principal Product Manager will help to support and grow Red Badger’s Product Management capability and team, working with Directors and leadership to shape and lead our strategy. You’ll be willing to share your expertise and experiences both internally and externally, actively participating in product communities and regularly writing and talking on behalf of Red Badger.</p> <p>You must be comfortable with a hybrid working environment. Our default working practice will be UK based hybrid, with 2 days per week in person working (Central London)</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <p><strong>Discipline expertise</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define and drive our clients’ product strategy and vision.</li> <li>Lead multi-disciplinary teams in designing, validating and building cutting-edge products and services.</li> <li>Confident to work with senior/executive stakeholders to identify and overcome tricky organisational challenges that are in the way of successful Product Delivery.</li> <li>Identify and prioritise user value, carefully balancing business and user needs to create and launch successful products and ongoing iterations.</li> <li>Champion the product discipline on complex digital transformation projects.</li> <li>Be a passionate advocate for Product Management, User Centred Design methodologies, lean approaches to user testing, research, and data-driven UXD.</li> <li>Drive continuous improvement, quality and project delivery, helping businesses make difficult tradeoffs to deliver value to users quickly.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Influence our clients</strong></p> <ul> <li>Become a trusted advisor to our clients by collaborating with them to solve problems, and create products and services which deliver business and user value.</li> <li>Build strong relationships with the leadership teams of industry-leading organisations.</li> <li>Rapidly build domain expertise within our clients’ industries, understand their existing market(s) and user segments, and help them identify new ones.</li> <li>Communicate with confidence to a broad range of stakeholders and client teams.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Build Red Badger capability</strong></p> <ul> <li>Proactively understand and share macro and micro-economic trends and how they will shape products of the future.</li> <li>Support with building, hiring and inspiring Product Strategists and Managers aligned with Red Badger’s values.</li> <li>Line management of senior Product Team members</li> <li>Provide leadership and mentorship to a team of Product Strategists and Managers.</li> <li>Encourage thought leadership and help develop industry-leading value propositions for Red Badger.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Drive awareness in the industry</strong></p> <ul> <li>Champion Red Badger’s ways of working: cross-functional teams, agile and lean best practices, building quality in.</li> <li>Understand and communicate the complete value chain (Engineering, QA, UXD, Insights and Delivery).</li> <li>Be an ambassador for Red Badger, and an advocate for ‘doing the right thing’, ‘doing the thing