Company Description

BlueOptima is on a mission to maximise the economic and social value that software engineering organisations are capable of delivering. Our vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineering.

Our technology is used by some of the world’s largest organisations, including nine of the world’s top twelve Universal Banks, and a number of large corporates.

We are a global organisation with headquarters in London and additional offices in India, Mexico and the US. We are made up of 110 individuals from more than 20 different countries. We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment. 

Location: London
Department: Product

Job Description

Are you a dynamic and visionary Technical Product Manager with a passion for revolutionising the software development landscape? BlueOptima is seeking an exceptional Technical Product Manager to spearhead our data onboarding product, and empower software development organisations to achieve peak performance. In this influential role, you will create a clear strategic direction, shape the product vision aligned with business objectives, collaborate with stakeholders, inspire and guide cross-functional teams to achieve common goals, drive innovation, make a lasting impact and redefine the future of software development performance optimization. This role will report to the Head of Product, will be one of the three musketeers in the Product team and will collaborate closely with the other Product Managers, Customer Facing Teams, Engineering and User Experience team (All for One, and One for All).

Responsibilities and tasks: 

• Owning, planning and communicating new product features, roadmaps, product backlog and success metrics for data onboarding, processing and management of our products. Define the strategy and the vision for a faster, scalable, more reliable and low-touch data acquisition strategy that is enabling product expansion. Understand markets, competition and user requirements in depth to identify market opportunities, new feature requirements, and build business cases.
• Empathising with users (e.g. DevOps, System Administrator, Team Leads), conducting user research, and translating user insights into actionable product improvements as part of requirement collection initiatives. 
• Identifying problems, analyse root causes, and develop creative solutions to drive commercial success of the product and feature delivery: increase revenue, reduce sales cycles and reduce manual work owned by the client facing teams Expanding our product offering by identifying, analysing and planning technology and language support needs to access new market areas.
• Being goal-oriented, focusing on outcomes: owning data onboarding, time to value, data health and P&L.
• Managing Stakeholders; collaborating with other product lines, senior management, customer facing teams, engineering and user experience teams, negotiating priorities, and providing clear direction. Working with Sales, Customer Success & Marketing to drive forward the feature launch and grow its impact on company revenue.  
• Gathering, analysing and using data, weighting various options and metrics, considering risks, using data to drive product decisions and making choices that drive product success.
• Embracing new technologies, market shifts, and emerging trends, adjusting product strategies and plans accordingly.

Qualifications

Requirements: 

• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager within a scaling SaaS organisation, leading end to end product delivery of small to medium and complex features, involving multiple teams and stakeholders, driving product strategy forward by building roadmaps. 
• Proven technical B2B product development experience, leading data engineering or highly technical ML projects/products, worked on scalable applications, visualisation and clustering, making products commercially successful as well as delivering the desired impact.
• Background and experience in Software Engineering, and a strong understanding of software development best practices, SDLC, users and decision makers.
• Strong sense of accountability, ownership and ability to work collaboratively in a result-oriented way. Experience on setting and applying KPIs and metrics to measure success and provide objective oriented results.
• Experience working with internal and external senior stakeholders, and with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in Product Development Lifecycle, product scoping, requirement gathering, backlog management, schedule and estimations, reviews and validations, execution, tracking and monitoring, documentation.
• Experience in conducting market research and competitive analysis to identify market trends, customer needs, and potential opportunities. 

Desirable:

• Worked on data analysis, visualisation and clustering.
• Worked on containerisation, docker, kubernetes, integration and APIs.
• Worked on Version Control Systems, Task Trackers, ETL (data collection and processes practices).
• Worked as a software developer or a devops engineer in the past.
• Advocate for user-centred design practices, provide input on user research and usability testing, and ensure that the product's user experience aligns with customer expectations.

Additional Information

Your career progression: 

Join our team as a Product Manager and unlock a world of limitless career possibilities. Our culture promotes continuous growth, allowing you to evolve as an individual contributor to a Principal Product Manager, where you can deepen your expertise and influence the direction of our entire product portfolio. Alternatively, if you have a passion for leadership, you can transition into a Lead Product Manager role, guiding and mentoring a team of talented professionals. Finally, as you continue to excel, you can ascend to the esteemed position of Group Product Manager, where you'll drive high-level strategy, inspire teams, and shape the vision of our organisation.

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth: 

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits:

• 32 days of holidays (including bank holidays) 
• Hybrid working - 2 days remote and 3 days in the office each week
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• Top of the line equipment (i.e. laptop, headset, desk gaming monitor)
• Office in Elephant and Castle with free drinks and snacks
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Frequent team socials, pizza & ping-pong tournaments at the office
• 12 Weeks Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Pet friendly office

Visa Sponsorship : Not available

Salary : £55k Annual

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