Product Manager, Preservica
Digital preservation software
Posted today
Digital preservation software
101-200 employees
Posted today
101-200 employees
Company mission
Changing the way thousands of organizations around the world protect and reuse long-term digital information.
Role
Who you are
- At least 12–18 months of product management experience, with genuine ownership of discovery and backlog
- Demonstrable ability to conduct user research and translate findings into prioritised, outcome-oriented backlogs
- Passion for PLG strategies and user-centric product development
- Experience working in an agile delivery environment alongside engineering and design
- Enterprise SaaS experience is a plus; experience in content management, information governance, records management or search-adjacent products is particularly relevant
- You actively use AI tools to do your job better
- You understand AI capabilities and limitations well enough to make sensible product decisions about AI features
- Experience working on or shipping AI-powered features is a bonus, not a requirement
- You default to the problem before reaching for the solution
- You're comfortable with ambiguity and can make progress before everything is defined
- You communicate clearly to engineering, stakeholders and customers without needing to translate through someone else
- You take ownership of outcomes, not just outputs
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Head of Product
- You will own the Search & Discover product domain, working directly with an engineering delivery team as part of a leadership triad alongside a Tech Lead and Agile Delivery Manager. The Tech Lead owns technical decisions. The ADM owns delivery process. You own the what and the why
- Preservica is at the forefront of bringing AI capabilities into digital preservation, an industry where the technology is genuinely new and the problems are hard
- This role sits at the centre of that work
- You will be defining and validating how capabilities like semantic search, natural language querying, and AI-assisted relevance ranking can solve real problems for archivists, records managers and their users — grounded in discovery research, not assumption
- This means understanding both the user workflows where AI can genuinely help and the contexts where it introduces risk or needs careful design
- Your primary focus is discovery: understanding how users search, browse, and surface content across different workflows and institutional contexts, and translating that understanding into a backlog that the delivery team can execute with confidence
- Own Search & Discover as a product domain, developing deep understanding of the jobs-to-be-done for archivists, records managers and their users, and using that understanding to drive the roadmap and influence platform-level priorities
- Lead discovery through user interviews, prototyping and other research; translate findings into clear problem statements and validate assumptions before committing engineering effort
- Partner with the UX team to prototype and test AI-powered capabilities early, and maintain shared research documentation so findings are accessible and cumulative
- Connect customer needs, product capabilities and business goals, championing user outcomes and translating them into well-formed requirements that the delivery team can execute with confidence
- Own the dialogue between product requirements and technical solutions, partnering with the Tech Lead on feasibility and trade-offs and with the ADM on backlog readiness and sprint cadence
- Anticipate GTM needs and rally stakeholders around the team's work, ensuring launches land well with customer-facing teams and customers understand the value of what's been built
- Understand the competitive landscape for search and discovery in information governance and digital preservation, and use that knowledge to sharpen prioritisation
- Be the subject matter expert for Search & Discover and share learnings with the wider product team, raising the bar for how the team approaches discovery and problem framing
- Leverage AI to be more effective and efficient in your own work, and actively look for opportunities to improve how the wider team works through AI-augmented ways of working
Our take
Companies wanting to preserve their digital files and records are often forced to invest in software that sits outside of their tech ecosystem. Preservica offers an easy, automated solution that integrates into its existing stack and ensures the preservation of important documents and files well into the future.
Preservica’s patent-pending Active Digital Preservation software automatically preserves files in future-friendly formats, meaning that companies can quickly find them at a later date for the purposes of compliance, brand value, knowledge reuse and FOI. Ultimately, Preservica is making file storage easy to navigate and provides peace of mind for companies working across diverse and easily confused tech systems.
With solutions tailored for business, academia, manufacturing, construction and government energy sectors, Preservica has amassed an impressive client base of over 4,000 organizations and preserved more than 500 million digital collections. It’ll be interesting to see how its simple and convenient solution develops, as file protection, transparency, and security become an increasing concern.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible, remote-first working culture
- Excellent career development prospects in a rapidly expanding market
- Access to industry-leading learning and development resources
Company HQ
Downtown, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Jon Tilbury
(Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer)Initially served as Preservica's CEO before moving into the role of CTO and then CIO. Previously, Jon spent 28 years at Tessella as a Director.
Mike Quinn
(CEO)Mike joined Preservica in 2013 as a Commercial Director, moving into the role of CEO in 2016. Previously, they were an Interim Executive Director at Miqu Limited and a Managing Director at Trace One UK.
Stuart Reed
(CPO)Prior to joining Preservica in 2022, Stuart was a Managing Director of Cyber Risk at Kroll, a Director of Product Management & Marketing at Orange Cyberdefense and a VP at Nominet.
Phil Beckman
(CTO)Phil is also the Founder, President & CTO of Sapphire Point Technical Consulting. Previously, they were the VP of R&D/Technology at SilkRoad, a Director of Atlassian practice at Herzum and a Senior Director of Development at CORPTAX.
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