Product Manager

About You

You are someone who is not afraid of a challenge. You will have a work hard play hard attitude, which is reflected in our company culture, people and success.

You have an ability to work collaboratively with the wider business and we will provide you with all of the support required, we are just looking for your hard working and innovative attitude.

About the Role

The Product Manager is a customer-centric person joining our Product team in our London office. Reporting to the Product Director, you will work closely with the Customer team to define and validate requirements and with the Development team to prioritise the development schedule to meet agreed targets. You will also be responsible for driving and measuring the successful adoption of new product features and functionality across the customer base. There is scope for flexible / hybrid working within the role.

About Wazoku

Will you help to provide clean water to schools in Mexico? To find a better solution to protect astronauts? To invent the next multi-billion market breakthrough? At Wazoku, that’s exactly what we achieve as we; change the world, one idea at a time.

We do this through our enterprise innovation platform that help organisations to find that one person who has that one idea wherever they are to solve their smallest to biggest problems to generate solutions that truly change the world. We work with Global 2000 organisations from the likes of NASA to Nissan and GSK, helping them discover new products and services, continuous improvements, but also ways to sustain our planet.

Wouldn’t you want to be part of this? To be involved in a new breakthrough idea that helped change the world into a better place? If so – we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

The Product Manager will be responsible for three main outcomes:

Define and execute the delivery strategy for assigned areas of the Wazoku platform

• Working with the Product Director to determine customer needs and desires to define a the product roadmap for assigned areas of the platform
• Working with the UX and Data Science teams to build and enhance product features, ensuring a positive user experience and enabling customers to make data driven decisions
• As needed, make build v. buy v. partner recommendations to achieve product objectives
• Work with the development and QA teams to ensure functional and technical requirements are understood and delivered in the most efficient manner
• Working as part of sprint team/pod to deliver features - driving iterative product development, providing feedback to the team and evaluating priorities to get maximum value from product features and functionality
• Working with relevant internal business functions (Customer Success, Customer Experience) to deliver operational changes.
• Managing the launch process of new features and functionality in partnership with the Marketing, Sales and Client teams.

Execute on and deliver the product roadmap

• Work with the development and QA team to ensure functional and technical requirements are understood and delivered in the most efficient manner
• Working as part of sprint team/pod to deliver features - driving iterative product development, providing feedback to the team and evaluating priorities to get maximum value from product features and functionality
• Working with relevant internal business functions (Customer Success, Customer Experience) to deliver operational changes.
• Managing the launch process of new features and functionality in partnership with the Marketing, Sales and Client teams.

Drive product and use case adoption

• Work with the Customer Success and Customer Experience teams, to develop and execute product plans to educate customers about the value of new features/functionality and drive adoption
• Work with the Marketing team to generate key product marketing content to demonstrate the benefit and value of assigned areas of the platform
• Use the customer community, Connect, to drive better identification of customer needs, drive adoption of features/functionality and elicit feedback of new features/functionality

Requirements

The personal qualities of a successful candidate include:

• Clear and compelling communicator with excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
• High integrity individual who naturally connects with our core values: Passionate, Accountable, Collaborative
• Strong drive and work ethic with an appreciation for a team-oriented culture
• Strategic and analytic capabilities to match day-to-day hands-on work
• A high level of creativity, drive, curiosity, and intellect
• Excellent team player with a hands-on, direct, transparent, collaborative style

Essential Requirements

• Ability to thrive in an agile, distributed & dynamic team environment
• Proof of Right to Work in the UK

Please note: we are unable to offer UK working visa sponsorship or support relocation for this role so you must have the right to work in the UK.

Benefits

Although we work hard, we also recognise the importance of maintaining a proper integration of work/life priorities and providing a culture that encourages creativity and productivity. Our benefits include:

• Remote/hybrid working - we are flexible with where you want to work. We have an office in London and if you want to work at home we can provide home working equipment
• Flexible holiday policy that recognises employees are best able to determine when and how often they need to take time off to recharge their batteries, while still meeting their performance objectives
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Excellent Parental leave policies to support our working parents through all stages of their life and careers, including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave, and 8 weeks paternity leave.
• Flexible working including hybrid working and flexible hours (to be agree with management)
• December one week shut down over the holiday period
• Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme we match up to 5%
• Complimentary Mental health service – We are partnered with InsideOut, an on-demand mental health platform, dedicated to breaking down social stigma and opening up the mental health conversation. Everyone has mental health and we couldn't support their mission more. Employees can join at any time
• Social Events – Including company offsites, summer & Christmas parties, charity engagement and more
• Great vouchers and offers through our Thanks Ben platform
• £30 per month to spend on your own personal Health and Wellbeing
• Birthday Day Off
• 10 days paid sick leave per year

**Salary range £45,000 - £65,000 per annum depending on experience**