Senior/Lead Product Manager (3-6 month contract)
CharlieHR, United Kingdom
Job Description
We’re Charlie and we exist to Make Work Better. We believe the best way to do this is by equipping progressive lt;100-person companies with effortless HR tools to deliberately craft a happy, high-performing culture every day.
We’re looking for a Senior or Lead Product Manager to join our Product team on a 3-6 month contract and help us start to reach the next level of maturity in our product function. You’ll be responsible for the leadership, strategy and execution of a product squad within this time. You’ll train current team members and implement data-led decision making frameworks.
Come on and join us to make work better!
- Product strategy develop and execute a squad strategy that aligns with our product strategy
- Customer focused conduct market research and customer analysis to understand customer needs and core JTBD
- Data driven follow a data driven approach, using both qualitative but also quantitative data to inform decisions.
- Communication communicate product vision, strategy, and updates to stakeholders and cross-functional teams for area of responsibility and within the squad’s scope
- Leadership lead cross-functional team in the development of a JTBD roadmap and manage its execution
- Best practice define product requirements and create detailed specifications, user stories, and wireframes to guide development.
- Collaboration collaborate with design and engineering teams to bring the best out of collaborators and build high-quality products
- Experiments launch experiments, gather and analyse qualitative and quantitative data to validate product hypotheses
- Go to market define clear go to market strategy in collaboration with Customer Success, Marketing and Sales teams
- Iteration monitor and analyse product performance and make recommendations for improvements
- Lead implementation of data-led decision processes we have a new quantitative tool at Charlie and we need to get started using it to collect the right data and use it for daily decision making
- Train other PMs - to grow according to strongest PMs best practices, methods and frameworks (aligned with reforge is a plus)
Requirements
You must have:
- 8+ years of experience as a product manager in a technology company
- A proven history of success in product management roles, where you currently own or have owned a large scope of consumer-facing products and features
- Strong experience with data analysis and customer research technique, especially the quantitative tool Amplitude
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Deep analytical, prioritisation, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience leveraging experiments and data to inform product decisions.
- Aptitude for translating complex technical topics into simple product solutions.
- Relentlessly focused on customers’ needs
- Self-awareness and humility you know that honest feedback is how you grow, and you’re not afraid to ask for help.
Behaviours we look for:
- Self-starter with a bias towards action
- Results-driven mindset, focused on execution and with a hands-on approach
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional team environment
- Strong ability to motivate and inspire people to do their best work
- Possess a deep sense of ownership and responsibility
- Exceptional interpersonal communication and relationship management
We will still consider applications even if you don't meet every single one of the above requirements, so don't be put off if you don't match them absolutely perfectly!
This is a 3-6 month contract role. We cannot offer visa sponsorship and you must be able to work in the UK.
How we're crafting ownership, belonging and structured flexibility:
- A team of around 40 that genuinely enjoy spending time together, with regular in-person and remote events to foster connection
- 9 day fortnights our adjusted work week. We have every other Friday off work and have a meeting-free Wednesday on the five-day weeks to give time for deep work
- Hybrid-first approach; we optimise for office and remote working to be valued equally, and to be equally valuable
- Live anywhere in the UK; we have 6 set days per year that we require the team to be together in our London office, but you have the flexibility to li