Senior Product Manager - 12 Month FTC

<p> </p> <p><em><strong>This position is fully remote/home based. Applications will be accepted from candidates based in the UK. This is a 12 month FTC.</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Role Summary</strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">PLOS is a nonprofit Open Access publisher with an ambitious mission: to help transform research communication so that science can be shared, understood and used more effectively. </span><span data-contrast="auto">We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Product team for a 12-month maternity cover contract.</span> <span data-contrast="auto">It's an interesting time to join us.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Research publishing is changing rapidly. Researchers' expectations are changing. Technology is creating possibilities that didn't exist a few years ago. And at PLOS we're rethinking some of the services, systems and assumptions that have shaped scholarly publishing for decades.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">That means there are interesting product </span><em><span data-contrast="auto">problems</span></em><span data-contrast="auto"> to solve - not just features to deliver.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You'll take responsibility for a product area and work with designers, engineers and colleagues across PLOS to understand the problems that matter, work out where we can make the greatest difference and help the team learn its way towards good solutions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Although this is a fixed-term role, it isn't a caretaker role. You'll be joining active product teams working on significant problems and will have plenty of opportunity to shape what we do and how we do it.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">How we work</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We want our product teams to be curious, evidence-led and comfortable with uncertainty.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We don't expect a Product Manager to arrive with a