This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Product Operations Manager
Location: UK wide - Multiple office locations available
Reports to: Senior Manager, Product Operations
Direct reports: None
💼 Company Overview
IRIS Software Group is one of the UK’s leading providers of mission-critical software for accountancy, payroll, HR, education, and business operations. With over 120,000 customers and decades of innovation, IRIS powers essential processes for organisations across the UK and internationally. Their software simplifies complexity, reduces admin, enhances compliance, and helps customers operate with confidence.
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🎯 Purpose of the Role
The Product Operations Manager plays a key role in driving operational excellence across product teams. You will introduce and scale AI-driven efficiencies, modern product tooling, strong governance frameworks, and clear operational standards—ensuring product teams work faster, smarter, and more consistently.
This role enables IRIS to build better products by improving workflows, enhancing decision-making with data, and embedding robust processes that are measurable, repeatable, and auditable. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science and Customer Success to strengthen how product teams deliver.
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📌 Key Responsibilities
Drive Operational Excellence
Implement and optimise product development processes
Use AI and automation to remove bottlenecks and improve delivery speed
Establish strong governance frameworks, workflows and compliance controls
Maintain audit-ready documentation across teams
Enable Data-Driven Decisions
Define, track and report on KPIs (e.g., deployment frequency, MTTR, roadmap progress)
Build dashboards and operational insights for proactive decision-making
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Champion Continuous Improvement
Lead retros, operational reviews and health checks
Use data and feedback to refine processes and improve product outcomes
Foster a culture of accountability, learning and optimisation
Facilitate Cross-Functional Collaboration
Act as the “connective tissue” between Product, Engineering, Data Science and GTM teams
Work with Customer Success to build structured customer feedback loops
Lead Change Management
Develop change plans for new tools, processes and governance
Communicate clearly with stakeholders to ensure adoption and alignment
Promote DE&I
Champion inclusive practices across product operations and team processes
📈 Expected Achievements
Within 3 Months
Understand AI capabilities, tooling, and operational workflows
Build relationships with product & engineering leaders
Map governance and operational standards
Identify early improvement opportunities
12 Months
Implement AI efficiencies and modern tooling with measurable impact
Launch dashboards for real-time KPIs
Embed governance across all product teams
Establish customer feedback loops
Lead operational reviews with data-driven insights
18 Months
Own and evolve the AI & tooling roadmap
Deliver sustained improvements to product team efficiency and customer outcomes
Institutionalise best practices, compliance gates and reporting
Be recognised as a strategic leader within Product Ops
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🧠 Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Required
Experience supporting SaaS product development
Strong understanding of governance, workflows and audit controls
Skilled in process optimisation and continuous improvement
Proficient in dashboards, metrics and analytics
Hands-on with tools like Jira, Confluence, Aha!
Strong cross-functional collaboration (including engineering)
Commercial awareness and customer focus
Excellent communication and documentation skills
Desirable
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum
Experience with SaaS compliance or operational frameworks
Certifications in AI, data analytics or product management
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🎓 Qualifications
Experience in SaaS product operations, product management, AI implementation, or technical transformation
Practical experience with GenAI, ML or automation is highly valued
Experience working with engineering & data science teams
Knowledge of AI ethics, governance or compliance is a plus
About IRIS
As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.
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