Product Manager
Location: GB, LND, London
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Internet
Function: Product Management
Company profile: Want to make a difference?Do you know when people are the least happy in their life?  When they're commuting.  Travelling 8.5 hours per week on AVERAGE in the UK. In effect, we spend Friday travelling.NearDesk is like an Oyster card for renting desk space and meeting rooms by the hour - we're on a mission to let people work anywhere. A million people working near home one day per week.We could all commute less - leaving time for things that really matter. We could have communities we live in not just sleep in. We could massively reduce the carbon we use (52% of all O2s Carbon is people getting to their normal place of work each day). And companies could spend less on desks, leaving more money for people.Be a key part of something specialWe need a small core of exceptional people, working closely with a network partners to have a huge impact. We have already set new records for crowd funding on #URL_177e0d87f026dd0c6f1d19819650a5b93a647e77ff69dbdedd8cbdbb8d600b92# with over 260 investors. We are based at #URL_0c16f8cd254e8b99738b33fab9018aef2ce96d98edc1c979b019c5acf6168ad2# - which we use as a test ground for NearDesk - with a dozen other startups.You will be joining us early and be key in building a great culture where we enjoy being productive as much as we enjoy making Britain (and then the world...) more productive.Imagine telling your grandchildren that you helped change the way Britain works and lives...
Description: You love building things and love UX/wireframing! You're not a coder - but you see how things work and how they could be better. You’re passionate about your users and want an opportunity to work more closely with them, doing something that matters.We see how the world works and we believe we can help that work better too! We’d like to see a million people working near home, one day per week. That’s why we’re building the “oyster card” for desk space: We are a company who want to change the way people work. Your time will be split fairly evenly between:UX: Designing new features, systems and simplificationsProject Management: Project managing these to delivery (through Jira)UAT: Testing, user-testing, poring over dataWe have a fairly mature platform (which works!), great developers, a strong product focus and a strong desire to get better - giving you great foundations to start adding your magic from week one.How do we make sure we’re solving the right problems?  We are based at a NearDesk location – so have a hundred of your users, in the room right next door.  Consider it your personal user lab. We want our Product person to engage with them. To test, to discuss, to iterate and to improve.You'll be managing the development team - so no fighting for resources to get "your" things done. One of your first jobs will be imagining, designing and then delivering our first mobile apps.As a key part of the initial team, you'll be core to setting the culture and building a company we can all be proud of – we’d like you on the exec team.
Requirements: Experience of UX / WireframingSome experience of product management - e.g. JiraExceptional portfolio of things you managed not just designed
Benefits: We’ll pay you wellWe offer a great options package in an early stage company run by a proven entrepreneur – we set new records with our previous round of crowdfunding!You’ll get full life-cycle responsibility if you prove you can create beautiful productsChange how the world works daily - be part of the change. We’re cool with flexible working!Your very own user lab right next door
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