Company Description
Informa Festivals marks an exciting new chapter in B2B events, bringing some of the world's most influential creative, technology and business festivals together. We’re combining prestigious brands like Cannes Lions, Black Hat, Money20/20 and London Tech Week with cutting-edge marketing intelligence platforms and advisory services to deliver unmissable experiences and insights.
Our festival-led approach reimagines traditional B2B events, creating powerful, immersive experiences that drive innovation and industry advancement. Building on decades of expertise and powered by Informa's international reach, we're shaping the next generation of business festivals.
We’re part of Informa, a global business with a network of trusted brands in specialist markets across more than 30 countries, and a member of the FTSE 100 who are #3 in Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2025 UK list.
Job Description
This position will be based in London and require you to be in the office 3 days a week
WARC is the global authority on marketing effectiveness. We provide rigorous and unbiased evidence, expertise and guidance to help marketers navigate any challenges effectively.
WARC operates out of London, New York, São Paulo and Singapore to service a community of over 75,000 marketers in more than 1,200 companies in 100+ markets. Find out more at warc.com.
within the WARC platform.
Working closely with the Chief Digital Officer, LIONS Insight, this person will be expected to contribute to product strategy and help shape and deliver the future of WARC’s portfolio of digital product roadmap and services. The successful candidate will be innovative, customer-focused and have a growth mindset. They will have to balance product intuition, creative problem solving and data-driven decision making.
They will work closely with various stakeholders to evaluate product opportunities and determine what gets built and delivered to customers. They will also manage the UI/UX Team of designers to ensure total integration between user experience design and product design initiatives.
They will guide and collaborate with the engineering team on what gets built, based on insights they gather from the market, customers and internal teams. They will be an advocate of the WARC product suite and work closely with internal teams, such as sales, marketing, and others to bring products successfully to market. They will be experienced in product management best practices and help embed these approaches within WARC.
Key accountabilities
Working with the Chief Digital Officer, LIONS Insight, help shape and communicate WARC’s product vision and strategy
Translate WARC’s vision and strategy into a product roadmap, informed by rigorous customer research and testing
Translate the roadmap into requirements that should be formalised, documented and tracked. Assist the Engineering & Data Teams in delivering those requirements on time
Work closely with the Engineering, Data Science, Delivery and Design teams to ensure alignment and joint understanding of product requirements and customer needs, help define workflows, product architecture and UI/UX
This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.
Qualifications
- Experience of product management and/or delivery within information services or SaaS, preferably in B2B
- Agile / Scrum Master / Project Management Qualifications beneficial but not essentia
- Proven track record of success in developing products with high quality user experienc
- Proven track record of success in leading high quality customer research and translating needs into product ideas
- Experience in planning development roadmaps which correlate business strategy
- Influencing skills; interacting with stakeholders and leading / developing teams; with customer led viewpoint
- The right candidate has the ability to uncover customer needs, translate those needs into a set of product features and gain alignment on the delivery with the Engineering organization, whilst being able to align to overall business and customer needs
- Ability to translate technical terminology to business stakeholders
- Ability to work on multiple projects and apply structure, rigour and priorities to you workload
Additional Information
We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Here’s some of what you can expect when you join us. But don’t just take our word for it – see what our colleagues have to say at LifeAt.Informa.com
Our benefits include:
- Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
- Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
- Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
- Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
- Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
- A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
- A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
- Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
- Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
- As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.
At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.
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