Junior Product Manager

Job Description

Buying or selling a car shouldn’t be difficult! That’s why here at carwow we are on a mission to change the way people buy, sell or use a car by creating the world’s best online car marketplace. We're not all petrolheads - just a highly driven (excuse the pun) scale-up with over 350 carwowers in the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal.

Since starting our journey in 2011, we’ve grown to become one of the most trusted comparison sites with over 12 million users and we're very proud to be backed by some of Europe’s most respected technology, marketplace and automotive investors.

About carwow’s Product Organisation

carwow is scaling rapidly. Our product organisation currently includes 9 product squads and we are looking to expand to 14 in 2022. This growth will allow the expansion into different products and adjacent markets, which is one of our key strategic pillars for the next 2-3 years. In this context, we are moving our organisation towards a “Tribes and Squads” structure. For more information about our Product Organisation, please visit our medium blog (here).

About the role:

We’re looking for a Junior Product Manager to join our Product organisation in London. Our remote-first flexible working policy enables you to work from home for the majority of the week with 1-2 days max in the office.

As a Junior Product Manager you will be part of a cross-functional product team, including a Senior Product Manager, Tech Lead, a Product Designer and several Developers. You will be working very closely with other Product Teams in the consumer and commercial side, our Chief Product Officer and other relevant parts of the business such as Growth, country managers or our commercial team leadership.

This is the perfect role for someone who is passionate about customer satisfaction and creating great products within an exciting vision.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working closely with a Senior Product Manager initially to help develop your skills as a Product Manager, opening up opportunities to progress & lead your own product team
• Assist the Senior Product Manager in leading a consumer-focused product team
• Working with a cross-functional team including a designer, multiple engineers and data support
• Helping build and define product priorities by collecting and analysing data from multiple stakeholders, including consumers, dealers, manufacturers
• Taking ownership of key areas of the Product, monitoring their usage and defining the metrics that will measure success
• Work with Product Ambassadors (i.e. local market and functional areas stakeholders) to get the right input, their ideas and ensure that they have the right information to represent the product team into their areas/functions
• Keeping track of industry trends
• Following the progress of work and address production issues during sprints

Requirements

• You have some experience in a product management / product role. Alternatively, you’ll have transferable skills from a consultancy background
• You have a passion for technology and products
• You have the ability to think on your feet and tackle intellectually challenging problems
• You're analytical and experienced using data to make decisions
• You’re outcome driven and focused on making an impact
• You have strong communication skills and are good at building relationships and influencing others
• You're great at prioritising and not afraid to say no

Benefits

• A great Product org where you can grow as the company grows and learn from people who are keen to better themselves
• A competitive salary with equity in the company (share options).
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas Eve or an alternative religious holiday of your choice*.
• Life insurance (4 x basic salary).
• Private pension scheme (carwow will match contributions up to 5%).
• Private medical health insurance with Vitality.
• Enhanced parental leave including 20 weeks full pay maternity and 8 weeks full pay paternity leave
• Free access to Sanctus mental-health coaching sessions.
• The latest core Tech (Macbook Air or PC Surface Pro).
• Home Office budget of £500/€550.
• Salary sacrifice benefits (i.e. cycle to work), Travel Loan.
• Subsidised gym membership (50% off David Lloyds, Virgin Active and Nuffield Health).

*if you are not religious, this day will remain as Christmas Eve in conjunction with usual Christmas Bank Holidays

Working here

At carwow, we aim to create a culture where our team can thrive no matter where or how they work. With hybrid working (1-2 days in the office although more if you like), and a healthy home office budget of £500, we are also open to looking at alternative working patterns to ensure carwowers can work in a way that works best for them.

We’re a curious bunch and benefit from a number of different training opportunities. We are big on celebrating successes, working collaboratively and have found lots of ways to stay connected as a team both virtually and in person.

With a team of over 25 different nationalities, we know a diverse and inclusive workforce creates a more innovative company. We have work to do to get us where we’d like to be, but are working hard to get there and have a number of key DE&I initiatives underway.

So, if you always aim to WOW through everything you do (check out more info about our values here), we’d love you to join us on our journey.

CSR

We are leading the change to Electric vehicles and are conscious of the impact our industry can have on the environment. We’ve already planted over 45,000 trees to date as a thank you to those who leave us a review and are extremely excited about our new partnership with ‘One Tree Planted’, which we hope will increase the number to around 60,000 trees a year