Head of Product

The Company:

Innovative and performance-driven tech company with a start-up culture.

This ‘Profit for Purpose’ company are solving an important problem in the marketplace, they’re shaking up an industry and looking for a talented Junior or Mid-weight Product Designer who can learn and grow with the company.

They operate with a flat structure and have distributed teams located around the world, with their HQ in Melbourne. Working arrangements are flexible and split between office and home (not fully remote.)

The Role:

You’ll understand the critical role product-led growth plays in modern business building and have a demonstrated track record of leading effective product organisations, including the direct management of engineering teams.

Your day to day will involve working alongside the experienced CEO and product team to drive user growth and retention, leveraging frameworks across the suite of digital products.

This will suit a Technical Senior Product Manager with a growth mindset, ready to take the next step up.

Responsibilities:

• Identifying key opportunities for growth using a combination of data, customer feedback and previous experience
• Scoping those opportunities for the technical lead and engineering team to successfully deliver
• Run a high frequency of fast experiments to enable quality decision making and thoughtful feature prioritization and development
• Engaging with customers to understand what makes them tick
• Coordinating product / feature launches not just technically, but with marketing and comms
• Maintaining the existing products and handling / prioritising feedback from users
• The Product roadmap, and balancing between customer, business and technical needs
• Working daily with our CEO and product team to develop and manage the end-to-end product lifecycle across our consumer app, customer portal and our
• Working with our technical lead (remote) to develop technical solutions to deliver robust and scalable solutions
• Support the recruitment as we scale up the product, growth and engineering teams, including both local and distributed teams (we doubled in size in the past 12 months and are targeting similar growth this year!)
• Coaching and mentoring team members, and helping them to reach their career goals

Your Skills & Experience:

• Experience leading a technical product or engineering team in agile environments
• Experience managing the end to end product lifecycle in a start up or scale up environment (ecom, marketplace, SaaS etc)
• Leading product-led growth initiatives to drive new user acquisition through channels such as SEO
• Experience building engagement loops to increase retention and drive deeper product adoption
• Experience creating alignment and effective working models with distributed cross-functional teams
• Capturing meaningful product insights using event driven data insights platforms such as Amplitude, Segment or similar
• AWS experience desirable
• Great communication skills, and are able to bridge the gap between technology and product teams
• An eye for design, not just how it looks but how it works
• Experience with conducting user research, such as surveys, interviews, and analytics data

Benefits:

• Join an innovative, performance driven company
• Latest tech stack
• Ongoing training and progression with a fast-growing company
• Join a company that gives back to the community
• Flexible working arrangements, including working from home options
• Inclusive team culture
• Regular social events

Apply now or email jcorner@welovesalt.com with your up-to-date resume and portfolio

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