Senior Product Manager (Remote - Europe)
Spotted Zebra, United Kingdom

We are on a quest for extraordinary individuals who are mission-driven and aspire to create a profound and positive impact in the world by addressing the skills crisis. Our dazzle of zebras is a force to be reckoned with - they possess unwavering determination, take decisive action, push boundaries with innovative ideas, and thrive in an environment that offers autonomy, trust, and accountability to deliver exceptional outcomes.

The skills crisis is a colossal challenge, one that is expected to have a greater economic impact than the COVID-19 pandemic. The shortage of skilled workers is leaving millions of positions unfilled, and this crisis has been deemed by the World Economic Forum as one of the biggest challenges of our time, second only to climate change.

The world’s largest companies are transforming into skills-based organisations to survive, but most are struggling to do so without the proper tools. That's where we come in - we have built an innovative platform for workforce management that empowers companies to make skill-based decisions and thrive.

Our existing clients have already witnessed the positive impact that skill-based decision-making has on organisational performance, diversity, culture, and management insight. We have several FTSE100 customers and have recently secured 7.7 million in Series A funding.

We are now assembling the right team to help us become the leader in the multi-billion dollar skill-based workforce planning market. Our mission is clear and ambitious - we will unite 10 million people with opportunities at the world’s leading employers based on skills by 2030. In doing so, we will be driving a quarter of all people-decisions and will be making a significant contribution towards solving the skills crisis. We’d love you to join us and make a difference that will shape the future for generations to come!

The ultimate aim is to build a fantastic experience that meets the needs of our users. Of course, a significant part of the fun will be figuring out exactly what those user needs are, and testing ideas quickly.

Reporting into the Head of Product, you will co-lead a cross-functional product team that is globally distributed. You’ll also get to work closely with other stakeholders across the business, including management, commercial and operations teams.

• Own a key product area with your design and engineering counterparts, working closely with the Head of Product to develop our overall vision and strategy
• Shape a vision for your product area that aligns with our overall vision, inspiring your team in building towards it
• Understand and validate the real needs of users using a mix of quantitative data analysis and qualitative user research
• Generate great ideas, working closely with design, engineering and operations functions
• Identify clear and measurable metrics to monitor the success of the product
• Be accountable for the delivery and success of your products, reporting progress to stakeholders across the business
• Be responsible for the product backlog, prioritising considerately to balance new offerings, experience improvements and platform improvements
• Lead an agile product team, refining their ways of working to maximise performance
• Ensure the team has clear objectives (outcome-focused where possible), and everyone is clear on what they are doing and how it contributes to the overall company strategy
• Actively engage and communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Know the HRTech industry, the competitive landscape and our company strategy

Requirements

• You’ve built innovative products from scratch, from product discovery through to delivery and optimisation
• You are an advocate for your users, championing their needs across the business
• You energise and inspire the people you work with
• You’ve led a cross-functional, remote product team with agile ways of workings
• You have strong analytical skills, producing actionable recommendations from quantitative data and user research
• You have worked closely with engineers to understand and break down complex technical initiatives
• You have a firm understanding of design thinking or a similar innovation approach, and you have experience partnering with UX designers and researchers
• You’ve worked closely with other team leads to minimise dependencies and resolve blockers
• You love working with other product colleagues, supporting each other in improving everyone’s product management skills and the overall product function’s processes
• You have experience gathering feedback from users directly and leading workshops with groups to extract requirements
• You thrive in a start-up environme

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