• 7+ years of product management experience from minimum 2 different product lead B2C companies with zero to one experience of taking new products to the market
• Have passion for training, coaching and mentoring other Product Managers
• Have passion for product management tools and practices
• Have continuous improvement mindset and champion new ways of working within the overall product team
• Have incremental mindset and passion for delivering value to customers early and often
• Comfortable with understanding and occasionally querying - Engineering-led decisions to make sure we’re building things in the leanest, most efficient way
• Have a natural curiosity for product, tech, finance, and business building
• Truth seeking, taking responsibility for the performance of the product, leading with transparency and honesty
• Confident with evaluating data (analytics, customer feedback, industry trends) and ideas
• Customer obsessed, always asking whether what we intend to build will solve the customers problem
• Ruthlessly prioritises to focus on delivering high quality work fast
• Are a clear and concise communicator, great at building relationships and empathising with both internal stakeholders and external suppliers
• Are passionate about building diverse, inclusive, high-performance teams and aligning them around outcomes
• Accountable as an owner of the outcomes of a product area with clarity on decision making

Desirable

• We are now looking for a Group Product Manager to lead our Merchant and Purchase teams
• Our Product Teams are champion problem solvers, who fall in love with problems before discovering usable, viable and feasible ways to solve customer problems
• As a Group Product Manager at Zilch, you have a passion for financial inclusion and deep interest in solving problems in ways that achieve business objectives and exceeds customers’ expectations
• Our Group Product Managers are focused on creating the right environment for the product teams so that the teams can proactively optimise their areas
• Group Product Managers are passionate about driving the Zilch Product forward as well as improving the Product team itself. Group product managers champion best practice ways of working, coach and mentor other Product Managers whilst handling complex strategic initiatives
• We believe product management is a team sport, so we want people who thrive in working closely with designers, engineers, and data scientists to go from exploring problems to building solutions with confidence
• You must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and act as servant leader for the product squads that own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for their teams
• You will act as the product leader for two cross-functional product teams, empowered to solve problems in ways our customers love that also work for the business
• You will have line management responsibility of two Product Managers and act as point of support for the Product Managers by providing coaching and mentoring
• You will oversee the roadmap for these teams and work with product managers and stakeholders across the organisation to formulate the product strategy for this area
• You will set product targets for your teams, monitor product KPIs and proactively use data to drive the product forward
• You will be responsible for making sure the product shipped delivers value in a viable way for our business
• You will be building strong relationships with external partners to create joint roadmaps and manage delivery of strategic initiatives throughout
• Speaking to customers and stakeholders early and often to empathise with their biggest problems and validate solutions intended to solve those problems
• Continuously improve ways of working for the overall product team and act as cross-functional leader for Product Managers, designers, product analysts and squads to drive product discovery and delivery forward. Directing the work and priorities of the embedded data and design resource
• Accountable for ensuring Product Discovery happens on a continuous basis and initiatives are refined in time for Product Iteration Planning
• Act as point of coordination and alignment (e.g. working with the Engineering Manager to make scope & delivery trade off decisions and communicate these with stakeholders)

• To apply for this role, please submit your CV along with a cover letter
• We acknowledge receipt of your resume for a position at Zilch and we appreciate your interest in joining our business
• We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose qualifications meet our requirements. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you if you are selected to continue to the next stage of the recruitment process. We wish you every success