Senior Product Manager
About Student Beans
A little bit about us…
The world’s leading student loyalty network and accredited ‘Great Place To Work’, Student Beans produces award-winning technology for the biggest retailers on the planet, connecting them with the youth market. Featured in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 2020, a list of the fastest-growing private tech companies in Britain, we’re always innovating to offer new solutions that satisfy our consumers, drive ROI for our clients and create an empowering workplace for our employees.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Student Beans
Because this part deserves a place at the top of the job ad…Here at Student Beans, we’re working hard to grow an inclusive, diverse and respectful group of people we’re proud of. Accountability plays a big role in our company values, and we’re totally honest, open and transparent about our ED&I efforts. This is why we’ve made our commitments and internal statistics visible for everyone to see here. Our ever-evolving culture is defined by our people, and it’s all part of #LifeAtSB.
Requirements
About the role
As a result of our incredible success and growth, we are looking for a new Senior Product Manager to join us in our Marketplace Tribe.
You will be responsible for creating the Mission and Vision for a brand new squad within the Tribe, and will use your wealth of skills and experience to help identify the key, high value business opportunities that form the basis of your squad's strategy. In the fast, entrepreneurial culture at Student Beans we encourage true ownership, and you and your squad will be truly empowered with aligned autonomy.
We are looking for someone with the creativity, passion and drive to define their own path to delivering value, and this role has the opportunity to develop further, working closely with the Head of Product and CEO on key Tribe initiatives.
Responsibilities include:
- Deliver outstanding and impactful product experiences for users that drive value for students and growth for the business
- Manage the full product life-cycle from initial strategy and conception to delivery.
- Work with the Head of Product to help shape and drive the product vision and strategy
- Produce product specifications, user stories and all relevant documentation to enable the development of both web and mobile solutions.
- Liaise with commercial teams to define requirements and then collaborate with Development and Design to kickstart projects.
- Create, manage and oversee project squads to ensure smooth delivery.
- Continually monitor, analyse and test the performance of products, and transform that data into actionable insight when driving change.
- Be the Product Evangelist - support the wider business and share insights on product features and future roadmap.
About You
We’d really like to hear from you, if you have…
- Proven success within a similar Senior Product Manager role in a high growth environment
- Experience working in App or Web focussed squads is desirable
- Past experience creating multiple new squads from scratch
- Enjoys the discovery process, with a data driven approach to decision making.
- Design thinking.
- An analytical mind and love of problem-solving!
- An understanding or experience working in an Agile environment.
- Great communication skills with the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams.
- A data-driven approach to Product Development - skills in tools such as Snowplow, Contentsquare, Figma, Miro, Looker, Tableau, Asana or similar would be a bonus.
Benefits
Life at Student Beans
Let’s take a look at just a few things that make Student Beans an amazing place to work…
💰 Competitive salary
🌴 Unlimited holiday. We strongly believe in a healthy work life balance, so we don’t cap the number of paid time off days you take. By doing this, we hope to help promote a sustainable way to work while maintaining your health and wellbeing
🏆 Accredited 'Great Place To Work’ company in three categories https://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/workplace/item/3545/Student+Beans
👩🏽💻 Remote first working environment, meaning you’re not obligated to come into the office, you can choose the environment you think you excel best in
📅 Flexi-time, including Flexi Friday which gives you the opportunity to finish at 1.30pm
❤️ Focus on welfare, including gym memberships, wellness challenges, mental health first aider and health cash plan
🛍️ Incredible partnership discounts for the biggest brands in the world. Google, Apple, Ted Baker, GymShark, Domino's and Uber to name a few!
🧠 Commitment to personal development and career growth. Think learning budgets, coaching workshops and progression plans
💻 £200 work from home set up allowance to put towards your home office
Want to know more? Check out our career site for everything you need to know about starting a career with Student Beans…
https://partner.studentbeans.com/about-us/careers/
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