Lead Product Manager - Platform Product Onboarding
Posted 1 day 7 hours ago by Experian Group
Experian Software Solutions (ESS) is seeking a Lead Technical Product Manager to own and evolve the product onboarding and integration experience for the Ascend platform.
This role focuses on the technical mechanics of onboarding-ensuring that integration points are accessible, scalable, and designed for reuse. You will define and drive a roadmap to create a frictionless, self service onboarding experience for internal teams and external partners.
You will influence and align multiple product and engineering teams.
Hybrid, Nottingham or London based role (40% in the office) reporting to the Head of New Products Integration.
Key Responsibilities Platform Onboarding & Integration Design- Define and evolve the end-to-end onboarding journey (discovery integration go live), ensuring consistency, scalability, and reuse.
- Identify and unlock critical integration points required to onboard products efficiently onto the platform.
- Establish standardised integration patterns, reference architectures, and onboarding playbooks.
- Own the roadmap for onboarding tooling and developer experience, including documentation, sandbox environments, and self service capabilities.
- Partner with Architecture and Engineering to ensure onboarding aligns with platform standards (API first, microservices, event driven design).
- Lead delivery through influence rather than direct ownership, coordinating across multiple engineering and platform teams.
- Act as a central point of alignment for onboarding initiatives across Product, Engineering, Architecture, and Commercial teams.
- Define structured intake and prioritisation frameworks for onboarding demand.
- Balance short term integration needs with long term platform scalability and strategic value.
- Define and track onboarding KPIs (e.g., time to integrate, cost per integration, reuse, developer satisfaction).
- Use data and insights to drive continuous improvement and transparency.
- Identify opportunities to leverage automation and AI (including agentic AI approaches) to enhance onboarding and integration workflows.
- Drive initiatives that reduce manual effort, improve quality, and accelerate time to market.
- Experience in Product Management or Technical Product Management.
- Proven experience working on platforms, APIs, SDKs or integration focused products & architectures.
- Experience operating in matrix environments.
- Understanding of microservices, event driven systems, and data integration patterns.
- Experience designing scalable, reusable platform capabilities.
- Experience tracking onboarding KPIs (e.g., time to integrate, cost per integration, reuse, developer satisfaction).
- Understanding of AI and how to build AI capabilities into a platform at scale.
- Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan.
- Core benefits include pension, bupa healthcare, sharesave scheme and more.
- 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days; additional leave can be purchased.
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