Senior Product Manager Full Time

Previously Startups of London has featured Lavanda in our documentary series in 2019, where we had the opportunity to visit their office and interview their Founder. Check out the full video documentary and a detailed article about their company. You can also click on the company name above or go to their company page from here and learn more about their culture, business and management.

As for the role; Lavanda is looking for a Senior Product Manager to join their company and take on significant responsibility for large areas of their award-winning product. Learn more about the role, requirements as well as benefits in the below description. Click on the Apply Now button to complete job application.

– Startup of London Team

The Role

You will coordinate the work of multi-disciplinary product teams and take responsibility for scaling our product with new partnerships and into new markets internationally.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Remote and flexible working actively embraced – we are currently fully remote as an organisation and expect to stay mostly remote across the UK and Portugal for the foreseeable future.
• Generous holiday allowance, including the full Christmas break.
• Join a highly motivated, engaged team of extremely smart, creative and talented people.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Experience in end-to-end product management in a B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) company.

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing sophisticated, feature-rich B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.
• Experience working directly with customers to tease out problems and design solutions
• Experience driving activation and engagement in a SaaS product through the design and implementation of product-led growth strategies.
• Knowledge of the hospitality, travel or residential real estate domains.
• Knowledgeable across multiple functional areas such as product management, engineering, User Interface (UI), sales, customer support, finance or marketing.
• Familiarity with working with data to guide decision making. Comfort with SQL and analytics platforms
• Entrepreneurial drive with appreciation of great user experience (UX) and business/commercial issues.

Responsibilities

• Champion product strategy and roadmap definition
• Collect, manage and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases
• Write the business case for investments of resource and build consensus and internal approval
• Propose a product marketing plan and budget and then deliver against it
• Be the recognized expert in the business on the product, the market, relevant technology and the competition.
• Develop core positioning and messaging for the product
• Perform product demos to customers and develop relationships in key clients
• Lead one or more empowered product teams/squads to ensure delivery of agreed objectives
• Analyse and decide product pricing
• Monitor, report and improve product performance
• Run trials and MVPs, develop and deliver go-to-market launch plans
• Commission and carry out market and competitor research
• Promote the product to customers and sales teams through sales training sessions, webinars, newsletters and other mechanisms
• Develop and deliver training to technical sales support
• Manage development and marketing projects to deliver to plan
• Collate feedback from sales and customers
• Represent the voice of the customer in senior-level management meetings
• Be recognised as a leader in the business and build relations with business stakeholders
• Deliver a regular (e.g. monthly) volume, revenue and profit reports and forecasts