Role: Senior Product Manager (maternity leave cover 14 months)

Team | Reporting To: Head of Product

About us:

Formerly MyKindaFuture, Connectr is for businesses where people belong.

Connectr is an award-winning tech for good organisation with a mission to address the fundamental problem that many people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, lack the support, skills, confidence and networks to secure fulfilling, long-term employment.

Our software levels the playing field for those looking to get in to work and succeed when they get there. Through digital learning content and direct access to employees at the company users are applying to, Connectr guarantees all applicants have the opportunity to have their questions answered, rather than just those lucky enough to have someone in their own network already.

After extensive product discovery work, we decided to develop a second application of Connectr that is focussed on in-depth mentoring relationships. Our mentoring software forges meaningful mentoring relationships between employees at companies across the world. Both of our products seek to build a strong sense of belonging between the employee and the employer, leading to career-defining benefits for both.

We are a rapidly growing organisation and our Product Development team in particular is in the process of scaling up. You would be joining the organisation at an exciting time and have the opportunity to be a leader today in the tech of tomorrow.

About the role:

We are looking for an ambitious Senior Product Manager with a track record of leading cross functional teams through the full product lifecycle. We will have 3 Product Squads, 1 for each for the different Connectr applications and 1 for the Client Experience/ SaaS element of the product. At Connectr, you would have the opportunity to galvanise our employee mentoring product and help it continue its journey to being a world leader in an untapped market. You would also get a chance to feed into our new and evolving SaaS experience and really make your mark on software that has high potential for growth.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Championing the user in everything we do, taking in feedback and working with our UX team to deliver maximum value.
• Leading and facilitating discovery for the business.
• Building and maintaining meaningful connections with internal and external stakeholders.

• Measuring the impact of your decisions and using data to inform and validate new opportunities.
• Communicating strategy and results to the full business.
• Owning and developing your product roadmap.
• Defining and testing feature acceptance criteria.
• Working with other Product Managers and Engineers to maintain consistency and fluidity across our apps.

• Mentoring more junior Product Managers in the team.
• Contributing to the overall Product Strategy, looking ahead 12-18 months.
• Finding opportunities to collaborate with all teams.

About you:

We are looking for someone with experience of working in a product role, within an agile product environment, executing on both product discovery and delivery, ideally with experience in a rapidly growing start-up company. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate their experiences of the responsibilities listed above as well as the required skills/experiences below:

Required:

• Recent experience within a software product role at a high growth start-up.
• Experience building products at scale; taking a product from 0 to 1 and understanding how to launch features in a way that allows the team to learn and iterate quickly.
• Experience working within an agile methodology such as Scrum or Kanban.

• Experience working with design, UX, engineering and data science roles.
• Excellent communication skills and experience building and maintaining relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• The ability to influence, telling the story of your product and getting people on board with the mission.
• Experience and passion of working with data through tools such as GA to inform your decision making and get to the heart of the problem.
• Confidence in bringing fresh ideas to the table and understanding how best to communicate them.

• Experience mentoring more junior product staff.

Desirable:

• Experience with a SaaS product.
• Experience using Azure, Trello, Figma, PowerBI or other data analytics tools.