Product Manager (Senior/Staff)
SonaThe real economy employs 3 billion people in frontline jobs, yet frontline teams are still left to choose between paper and Excel or decade-old workforce management solutions to take care of the most important part of their businesses - their people.
Enter Sona, the Frontline Operating System; an end-to-end platform to manage a shift-based workforce and empower its teams. Sona upgrades the functionality you expect from any workforce management software - including scheduling, time & attendance, HR, and Payroll - with industry-specific plugins, dedicated features to empower staff, and a consumer-grade experience that simplifies frontline work for everyone.
In just three years, we’ve already made a deep impact on the lives of tens of thousands of frontline workers and the operation of their organisations, grown the team to 100+, and following our recent $27.5M Series A fundraise, have secured the backing of notable VC’s including Felicis, Northzone, Gradient Ventures (Google), SpeedInvest, Antler, and Notion Capital plus notable angels like Tom Blomfield (Monzo).
It’s a hugely exciting time to be joining the team, as we’re still small enough that you’ll have a significant impact on the company, growth trajectory and culture, but large enough that we have a great structure, experienced leaders and world-class benefits in place. More on working at Sona here.
About the Role
At Sona, we view Product Managers as the ‘CEO’ of their product area, with the mission of doing whatever is necessary to make your part of the product or product journey successful.
This naturally creates an incredibly varied set of responsibilities, from prioritisation of our core roadmap against urgent feedback and requests to deep discovery with customers and in-house SMEs, hands-on implementation or new feature roll-out, and even facilitating sales by demo-ing exciting new functionality or preparing collateral to help the team.
To be successful you’ll need to quickly building mental model of a new, complex business areas, adapt quickly to take on varied, cross-functional, and mission-critical tasks with low prep time, and have the the commercial and stakeholder know-how to balance the needs of newly acquired enterprise customers with our long-term vision.
Being a Product Manager at Sona isn’t for everyone, especially if you’re looking for a highly structured and process-driven environment, a role with lots of time to stop and think, dot I’s and cross T’, or a purely 9-5 role with strict work-life separation. In return, you’ll have a huge impact and ownership over the success of a product with an incredibly positive mission, an exceptional team of developers (and other product folks) who are committed to shipping a great product, and a share of the financial rewards for success.
Responsibilities
Day to day, you will be:
Defining and managing the core-feature roadmap for a core Sona module
Prioritising how we build towards our long-term product vision while keeping our customers happy and improving our ability to acquire new ones
Engaging in discovery for both core and differentiating features using a mix of first-hand discovery, SME knowledge, and prior art
Working across our implementation and customer success and support teams to ensure we build the most valuable product for our customers and that they realise that value
Ensuring Product activities facilitate Sona’s continued commercial growth
Collaborating with our wider Product, Engineering, and Data team to facilitate them in building the best product possible
Requirements
Everyone is different but hopefully lots of the following apply to you:
You’re an experienced Product Manager, capable of owning a product area and coordinating your team to ship high-quality features quickly.
You take massive ownership over ensuring that your product area is a success, and embrace getting stuck into anything that will help us do that
You understand the commercial context of your business and can balance those against the needs of enterprise customers
You communicate clearly and transparently, erring on the side of over-communicating with your team and the wider business.
Benefits
£90-120k (or local currency equivalent)
Share options
Fully remote and flexible working
35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)
Pension contributions matched up to 5%
Comprehensive Health Insurance via Bupa
Enhanced parental leave & pay
Co-working space stipend
Quarterly all expenses paid team retreats
The latest Macbook and equipment for your home office
Professional development budget
Unlimited free books