BlueOptima Hiring for Head of Product at London SE1 Full Time

BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before.

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 210+ employees (and increasing every day) from +34 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment.

Location: London, UK
Department: Product

As the Head of Product you’ll be responsible for developing our product strategy in alignment with the business strategy. You’ll be managing a cross functional team of Product Managers, UX & Technical Writing across Mexico, London and India to deliver on the product goals.

You’ll be the leading driver on building efficient systems and processes within the Product team that enable collaboration and data driven decision making. The highest priority for you and your team will be to maximise the value the client can gain from our various product lines and ensure they continue to fulfil the needs of their users.

Responsibilities and tasks:

• Execute against the company’s product strategy and realise our product roadmap across four product lines

• Cross functionally align the leadership of marketing, sales, customer success and product teams to deliver outstanding value for our customers

• Improve Product Operations across all product lines and enable all product managers to deliver against roadmap targets

• Provide the leadership team an accurate and data driven view of the performance of all product lines and shape the long term product strategy

• Drive action throughout the organisation to get products and features to market

• Oversee the creation and management of pricing models for each product

• Hire, retain and develop a team of Product Managers, Technical Writers, and UX Designers

• Become a domain expert around everything that involves building an efficient engineering organisation to help drive meaningful conversations with our leadership team, customers and our product advisory board

• Leading by example and enjoying getting into the details of complex problems

• Striving for a data driven decision making approach in any aspect of your product function

• Ability to influence and drive leadership discussions with all department leaders and unify around the value proposition BlueOptima offers to their clients

• Comfortable with the way an engineering driven organisation works and expertise in technical discussions to help the engineering team prioritise the right tasks.

• A strong background in enterprise software, B2B SaaS, engineering solutions or similar backgrounds that help you understand what problems our clients are facing.

• Four years experience in being a product manager for a b2b business

• Demonstrable experience of having led early stage product to market

• Thorough understanding of product development process

• Two years managerial experience in developing junior and ideally managerial talent to their next career step.

• Strong proficiency in a wide range of tools that Product and Engineering teams use.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• The ability to adapt to a changing business and market place

• Ability to think creatively and exploit business opportunities

Additional Information

Your career progression: In BlueOptima, we strive to strengthen your skills, widen your scope of work and develop your career fast. For this role, you can expect to increase the number of product lines you’ll be overseeing, progress towards Director or VP of Product and become an industry expert in software engineering efficiency metrics.

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)

• Flexible Work from Home policy – 2 days home p/w

• Free drinks and snacks in the office

• International travel opportunities

• Global annual meet up (most recent meetups have been held in Cancun and India)

• Modern office at Elephant and Castle

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• Frequent team socials, pizza & ping-pong tournaments at the office

• Visa Sponsorship: We are a licenced visa sponsor and welcome applicants through the Skilled Worker route (*WHEN IT APPLIES*) and relocation support when required and applicable.

Salary: £80-90k (OTE £90-100k)

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