Wonderbly
Wonderbly

Product Lead - New Venture, Wonderbly Group

TLDR

Build a memory and legacy product from research to launch, combining digital experiences, ecommerce, print-on-demand books and journals.

Product Lead

  • Contract role - 3–5 days per week, 6 months initially
  • Location - Hybrid, Central London office
  • Day rate - Up to £500 per day, depending on experience
  • Reports to - Chief Product Officer, Wonderbly Group

The Opportunity

Wonderbly Group has spent years perfecting the art of personalised books, stories that put real people at the heart of the narrative. Now we're launching a new venture in an adjacent space that moves us deeply: helping people capture the memories, voices and stories of the people they love, and turn them into beautiful, lasting books and journals.

The bones of this business already exist. What we need is someone to help us reimagine it from the ground up: new technology, a new digital product, a transformed ecommerce experience and a fresh brand expression, while preserving the emotional heart of what makes this category so meaningful.

We’re looking for a builder, someone with a genuine passion for memory-keeping, personal storytelling and beautifully crafted print products. Whilst this is a contract role our perfect candidate is someone who could transition to become the Head of Product for this new brand once it launches.

What You'll Do

You'll take ownership of the new product from research through to a shipped, live experience, working alongside our in-house tech team, a talented editorial team and Wonderbly Group leadership. In practice this means:

  • Leading user research to understand what customers want from a memory and legacy product: how they want to capture stories, who they're making books for, and what makes the end result feel precious
  • Creating and iterating on design prototypes, from rough concepts through to polished, testable experiences
  • Owning the digital product and ecommerce application roadmap: defining what we build and managing delivery with the in-house tech team
  • Collaborating closely with our editorial colleagues to design new kinds of print-on-demand books and journals that are both beautiful and genuinely easy for customers to create
  • Working with leadership to shape the brand expression of the new venture as it comes to life through the product
  • Keeping stakeholders informed and aligned throughout; this is a small, fast-moving team and clear communication matters
  • Get stuck in on any live product challenges with the existing business; whilst we transform the business there will be smaller product related tasks to keep the lights on and we want someone that can help with this

Requirements

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who has done this before, shaped a digital product from early research to launch, and who brings genuine care for the subject matter. You should feel at home working both strategically and hands-on. You'll be a strong fit if you have:

  • Demonstrable experience as a product lead or senior product manager on at least one consumer-facing digital product 
  • Strong research and discovery skills; you know how to get to genuine insight, not just confirmation
  • Experience creating design prototypes (you don't need to be a designer, but you should be comfortable working in tools like Figma or creating good AI prototypes)
  • A track record of managing software delivery with a technical team: comfortable in sprints, writing clear specs, unblocking engineers and making sensible trade-off decisions
  • Experience in or a strong affinity for ecommerce; you understand conversion funnels, customer journeys and what makes people buy
  • An appreciation for craft: beautifully designed physical products, editorial quality and brand expression matter to you
  • A genuine interest in memory-keeping, personal storytelling or the gift book category

Bonus if you have:

  • Experience with print-on-demand products or the personalised gifts space
  • Previous experience building or transforming a product for a new brand within a larger group
  • An eye for brand and the ability to think across digital and physical product design

Benefits

Remote-Friendly

Location - Hybrid, Central London office

Wonderbly is a unique, award winning start-up that lives on the intersection of storytelling, engineering, digital and print. Backed by some of the best VCs in town, we are building a global personal-publishing business that brings the power of meaningful personalisation into the hearts and homes of everyone in the world.With over 4 million products sold in over 150 countries we are the world's leading personalised books company. We create uncompromisingly high-quality personalised books to inspire courage, curiosity and kindness in children all over the world. We truly believe that imaginatively personalised stories are one of the greatest ways to make a child feel loved, unique and capable of anything. To show them that any story they imagine could be their story.We’ve spent the past six years obsessing about all aspects of personalisation in design and storytelling, optimising our rendering engine and scaling our Print on Demand network to four continents. We recently started an exciting shift from personalised books for children, to a global Personal Publishing leader. While we continue to publish the world's most innovative personalised books for kids, we started to think about the power of meaningful personalisation beyond the children market. Recently we announced the launch of Wonderbly Studios: a strategic partnerships (B2B2C and joint ventures) platform offering access to Wonderbly’s world-leading personalisation expertise across design, tech and manufacturing. We could not ask for a better suited partner than the Wizarding World - the official Harry Potter digital hub and fan club. Powered by Wonderbly Studios' design, tech and operations,The Keys and Curios journal (a welcome gift for Wizarding World Gold members) is a real creative triumph. Our CultureOur culture, or vibes as we call it here at Wonderbly is built on three core values that are at the heart of the Lost My Name book which started it all. We have extended the idea that "with a little bit of courage, curiosity and kindness anything is possible (including finding your lost name) to all aspects of our work. Be Courageous - building a new business, pushing all kinds of creative, operational and technical envelopes every day, going places no one has been before - these tasks are not for the fainthearted. We value taking (calculated) risks, rising to the constant challenges startup life present to us, making bold decisions. The people having the greatest success here are self-starters who thrive on autonomy and consciously work towards great leaps of personal growth. We like to help our employees realise they are even braver than they think. Be Curious - we pride ourselves on being an organisation that is obsessed with learning. Our curiosity and childlike sense of wonder is one of the most amazing attributes we have as human beings – it’s what weds us to the world. Curiosity is the spark that helps us learn and grow. It also makes an obvious business case - it goes hand in hand with being inventive, ingenious, with learning new skills, with taking risks, with breaking new grounds.Be Kind - at Wonderbly there's one rule above all: no assholes in the building. In order for people to be kind, they have to pay attention to what is happening around us. Kindness at Wonderbly manifests itself externally - how we treat and empathise with our customers, and internally - how we treat each other. We want to design a company culture that’s not just looking at how we can make the world better for ourselves, but how we can make it better for others as well.Benefits, perks and stuff Each year you'll accrue a generous 28 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays We support being active; with numerous running groups, gym lunches and yoga in the office. We have some sparkling new showers on site, secure bike parking facilities and are part of the Cycle To Work scheme Childcare vouchers, health insurance are also available Matched pension contribution Every full time employee is a partner with share options in the business You’ll get a sweet training budget to enable you to do your best work and develop as a professional, combined with weekly Lunch and Learns We have heaps of snacks, drinks, and comforts in our fully-stocked kitchen PLUS team lunches and breakfasts. Every Thursday, our Studio Manager orders some super delicious healthy food and we gorge ourselves - occasionally with a guest speaker to broaden our minds We love having dogs in the office [well behaved ones anyway]! We are an equal opportunities employerOur team are committed to providing equal opportunities for employment regardless of of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, disability, family structure, socio-economic status, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis (it's the law, but it's also just the right thing to do).And to see more on our business and products, please do visit us at:www.Wonderbly.com

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