Senior Product Manager

<p>At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.</p> <p>Product Managers at AKQA provide cross-functional leadership to ensure delivered work meets the needs of the client and their customers. This involves not only consuming the information and direction we receive, but looking beyond and demonstrating thought leadership and critical analysis to guide the team towards creating the best possible solution.</p> <p>We are seeking an experienced Freelance Senior Product Manager to support one of the most recognized and trusted names in financial services, a brand with deep roots in helping people plan, protect, and secure their futures. We are doing transformative digital product work with this client, shaping the ways that millions of people engage with their financial lives. This is a meaningful, high-visibility engagement where strong product leadership and clear, strategic thinking have a direct impact on real people at pivotal moments. This is a remote freelance role running from June 15 through December 23, 2026.</p> <p> </p> <p>ROLE REQUIREMENTS</p> <ul> <li>Lead the process of identifying and clarifying product requirements for clients using interviews, workshops, and surveys across stakeholders</li> <li>Collaborate with UX and Strategy leads to discern customer problems and pain points for a workflow, individual existing product, new product concept, or ecosystem of products</li> <li>Create and maintain key deliverables including Use Cases, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, and Product Backlog</li> <li>Serve as a liaison between the business, creative, and technology teams to ensure a common understanding of business requirements and solutions</li> <li>Catalogue background knowledge and develop subject matter expertise to share with the internal team, resolving questions that impact the direction of the work</li> <li>Work side-by-side with our creative team to refine and clarify requirements as well as provide guidance on proposed solutions</li> <li>Understand how proposed solutions may impact technical implementation and highlight potential challenges early so that dependencies may be resolved</li> <li>Interface with design and development teams to ensure product vision is carried through to the final product</li> <li>Ensure the accuracy of all project deliverables against approved requirements</li> <li>Provide recommendations on product direction based on expertise and analysis</li> <li>Outline delivery needs based on requirements, product knowledge, and approved