Lead product manager

Lead Product Manager

Job Description

Location:                   United Kingdom
Working Period:      Full Time, Permanent
Office:                        London, Hybrid

About Student.com

Student.com is the world’s leading marketplace for student accommodation and services, a leader in student marketplace technology and an innovator in an industry that needed an upgrade. We are passionate about helping students find their perfect home and supporting their educational journey. To date, we’ve helped students from more than 130 different countries.

Founded in 2011, we simplify the student study-abroad journey through our free global marketplace that puts security and ease-of-use first. For students, that means having an easy-to-use, secure platform for booking their perfect home and engaging other services, giving them total peace of mind. For our partners, that means having a new digital and global infrastructure which provides access to millions of students. Currently, our website lists more than 2 million beds in over 400 cities worldwide.

Job Purpose

We are seeking a Lead Product Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving value to our students and our partners including large student accommodation providers. We want you to drive this “obsession” with our students and how we can delight them!

You will work closely with our technology teams to streamline how we deliver outcomes following the key underlying principles of delivering incremental value. You should have a product mindset and understand the value of measurable outcomes.

There is a huge opportunity to mould how we undertake product management at Student.com. What can we learn from pioneering product thinkers such as Marty Cagan, Melissa Perri and Teresa Torres?

Our ideal Product Manager

•         8+ years of product management experience (ideally in a marketplace business)

•         Contribute towards product strategy and vision in line with the business's goals

•         Learn about users and a product's market

•         Research competitors and similar products, and analyse market trends

•         Collect and analyse user feedback to identify product requirements and priorities and steer the development process

•         Report on product performance and user feedback and implement any necessary changes

•         Be able to build compelling customer-focused stories and work with marketing to bring them to life.

•         Excited to work on a B2C and B2B platforms that support a wide range of Student.com features with the goal of bringing the best possible experience to all the students and partners on our platform.

•         Demonstrated track record of product leadership in a cross functional environment.

•         Built and scaled global consumer products and ecosystems that people love.

•         Entrepreneurial track record of taking an idea to reality and leading teams through a dynamic environment

•         Experience working on consumer products that drives significant revenue.

•         A strong ability to effectively use data and perform business analysis to support product strategy/decisions.

•         Line managed and grown a team of Product Managers both as a group and individually

•         Excited to drive execution across teams in a fast-paced environment.

•         Enjoys doing individual contributor product management work and staying in the details.

Hiring Process

·       1st stage screen

·       2nd stage interview

·       3rd chat with Student.com senior manager

Offer

We offer a great working culture, smart and passionate people to learn from and grow alongside, competitive holiday, wellbeing and pension perks and hybrid working.