Location
Pharos office in Cambridge, UK
Hope Street Yard, CB1 3NA
The post holder may be required to work at other locations, at the discretion of their line manager.
Salary
Competitive, dependent on level of experience
Benefits
Daily office attendance bonus
Flexibility around hybrid working
Matched pension up to 4% salary
Private healthcare plan
Working Hours
Full-time or part-time (minimum hours negotiable)
Pharos is seeking a diligent, detail-oriented Junior Product Manager to join our close-knit team in Cambridge. You'll help shape the hardware and software products that control the lighting on some of the world's most iconic buildings - from skyscrapers and stadiums to airports, shopping malls and theme parks. This is a hands-on role with real responsibility from day one, and a clear path to grow into a broader product development career alongside a team that genuinely loves what it builds.
The Junior Product Manager will support the ongoing development of Pharos products, which include a range of embedded lighting controllers, touch screen interfaces and accessories, and cross-platform desktop applications used by customers to configure and program lighting systems. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, QA and customer-facing teams to help shape requirements, validate features through hands-on testing, and produce the documentation that helps customers and colleagues get the most out of our products.
Pharos is a growing company with a close-knit and highly motivated team with a keen interest in the products it creates. Candidates should be similarly interested in the work involved and be able to adapt to changing priorities as we help deliver new products and features for our customers. We offer a very friendly, flexible and supportive working environment.
Pharos Architectural Controls is an award-winning British manufacturer of dynamic lighting control solutions for architecture and other specialist industries. Our products are highly flexible, versatile and powerful, and trusted to run day and night illuminating iconic installations around the world from international landmarks and historic architecture to theme parks, airports, stadiums, bridges, shopping malls, art installations, and more.
Pharos strives to keep in step with the ever-changing lighting industry and adapt to the needs of our customers and their projects; our business is expanding and evolving with opportunities in new markets and new technologies in lighting. The Pharos brand is known for its high-quality lighting control, flexible integration and responsive technical support. The Pharos team are passionate about providing customers and projects with just the right control system to meet (and often exceed) their needs.
- Produce and maintain product documentation and supporting materials, including user guides, release notes, internal references and customer-facing collateral.
- Carry out structured user acceptance testing of new & existing software & hardware, capturing clear, reproducible feedback for engineering and QA.
- Develop deep, hands-on expertise across the Pharos product range, becoming a go-to reference for colleagues on feature behaviour and real-world use.
- Collaborate with developers throughout the development cycle, supporting delivery from specification to release.
- Help capture, refine and organise requirements and user specifications, along with decisions and actions from product meetings, working with the product team, engineers and customers to ensure specifications are clear, complete and testable.
- Apply a high level of attention to detail across documentation, requirements and test feedback, flagging inconsistencies and edge cases.
- Some professional work experience we welcome applications from candidates whose background is non-traditional or from adjacent fields.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to a range of audiences.
- Strong attention to detail and a methodical, organised approach to work.
- Proven ability to work effectively in collaborative, cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable learning new technical domains quickly and asking the right questions to fill gaps.
- Some relevant experience in a product, technical, support or QA role, or a strong demonstrable interest in moving into product management.
- Educational or professional background in a relevant field, e.g. Live Events, Architectural Lighting, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.
- Experience in the use of lighting, audio or video control products within a live event or installation environment.
- Excellent time management, including the ability to prioritise conflicting tasks appropriately.
- Familiarity with issue tracking and documentation tools such as YouTrack, Jira, Confluence or similar.
- Exposure to Agile or Scrum ways of working.
- Basic technical literacy around networking, scripting or APIs.
