Director of Product

About Charlie

We’re Charlie and we exist to Make Work Better. We believe the best way to do this is by equipping progressive <100-person companies with effortless HR tools to deliberately craft a happy, high-performing culture every day.

We’re looking for a Director of Product to join our growing Product team and to be accountable for leading a product strategy that helps us achieve our vision and company goals en route.

Come on and join us to Make Work Better!

What is a Director of Product

We have a career progression framework that includes Individual Contributor (IC) and People Manager (PM) tracks. IC1 is a Product Manager I, IC4 is a Senior Product Manager, and IC levels 2 and 3 cover that middle area. Director of Product sits at the head of our PM track as PM6.

In this role you will:

• Own our product vision and the strategy that helps us get there; we expect constant communication that creates clarity and excitement amongst the team
• Clearly communicate & generate buy-in across the function and company for the strategy
• Build & empower an amazing team of Product Managers, providing direction to help them enact the strategy (you’ll have a minimum of 4 direct reports)
• Own the way we gather & analyse both quantitative & qualitative data, using it to inform our product decision-making
• Own the analysis and reporting of our product performance at both leadership and board level
• Be ultimately responsible for how we think about product process, empowering teams to be successful and looking for ways to remove blockers
• Take an active and compassionate role in running Charlie as an organisation along with the rest of the Leadership Team
• Craft our culture; all our leaders have to walk the walk when it comes to taking our culture seriously

You can read the full role doc here

Requirements

• Have clear expertise as a leader, manager & operator
• A track record of getting the best out of the people you work with; you focus on building others up rather than glorifying yourself
• Have experience scaling product vision & strategy at a SaaS company
• Are excited by the challenge of strategic thinking, but never too “senior” to jump in with the team and get your hands dirty
• Data-driven; able to use data to support and illustrate decisions
• Has strong product intuition which you can use as part of your decision making process to help us craft products that have the intended impact on users
• Enjoys teamwork and helping others solve their problems
  

We will still consider applications even if you don't meet every single one of the above requirements, so don't be put off if you don't match them absolutely perfectly!

This is a permanent full-time role. We cannot offer visa sponsorship and you must be able to work in the UK.

The Way We Work

How we're crafting ownership, belonging and structured flexibility:

• A team of 46 that genuinely enjoy spending time together, with regular in-person and remote events to foster connection
• 9 day fortnights — our adjusted work week. We have every other Friday off work and have a meeting-free Wednesday on the five-day weeks to give time for deep work
• Hybrid-first approach; we optimise for office and remote working to be valued equally, and to be equally valuable
• Live anywhere in the UK; we have 6 set days per year that we require the team to be together in our London office, but you have the flexibility to live anywhere in the UK
• 30 bookable "nomad working" days outside of the UK in any timezone each year
• No fixed working hours; you take ownership over how you get your work done
• An amazing office space in East London's pet-friendly Second Home, and membership access to their wider London, Lisbon and LA locations
• “Exploration days” when you can work on whatever you want across the company
• We have review cycles 3x a year using our transparent career progression framework, and dedicated personal development time

You can find out more about the way we work at Charlie by checking out our Handbook here

Compensation:

• A benchmarked salary from £107,500 to £120,000 based on your level within our progression framework
• Equity options after 3 months

Benefits

• £30 monthly wellbeing budget
• £500 yearly flexible working budget
• £550 yearly learning budget
• 25 days annual leave + public holidays + Christmas break
• A huge focus on mental health, including unlimited “Personal days”
• Access to Spill, offering six 121 counselling sessions and much more support
• A sabbatical of up to one month paid at 50% of salary, for every 3.5 years worked at Charlie
• Share options for everyone at Charlie

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe in the power of a diverse, inclusive team.

We welcome all applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of race, sex, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation or age.

Please let us know if you require anything which would enable your success throughout our interview process.