Product Manager

Who you are

• 2+ years owning product. You have shipped things that changed a number, and you can say which number and by how much
• Experience in building habit forming experiences and driving weekly and monthly engagement metrics
• Genuinely quantitative. There is no dedicated Data Analyst attached to your squad, so you need to be comfortable with digging in to data and BI tools. You can read an experiment result, and you can size an opportunity yourself

What the job involves

• The Platform Experience (PEX) squad is the custodian of the Perlego user experience after a user has signed up. The squad aims to make every user’s experience a delight — whether that be finding their next book, organising their digital bookshelves or reading a book on the Perlego web or mobile eReader
• As the Product Manager in PEX you’ll be working on bets such as consolidating our book search and recommendations features, developing relevant and useful AI tools for students and overhauling our mobile eReader
• You will own the discovery, shaping, proposal and delivery of bets in the Platform Experience squad end to end and you will connect the work to the numbers the squad is judged on
• You brief engineers and designers and the brief holds up under questioning. Scope, edge cases, and what is deliberately out and a clear rationale for why
• You talk to users regularly, and you use what you hear to shape what you build rather than to validate it afterwards
• You make trade-offs and say what you traded away. Ambiguity is the normal operating condition here, not a problem to be escalated
• This is not a backlog management role. Nobody will hand you a prioritised list. You build it, defend it, and own what happens
• Analysing and synthesising quantitative and qualitative evidence, and communicating what it means
• Placing the impact of the work in company context: which squad KPI moves, roughly how much, and why that matters
• Briefing engineers, designers and copywriters, with light review
• Stakeholder engagement on your bets, seeking input and and supporting decisions with evidence
• Building understanding of users, the industry and the squad’s problem space
• Applying the agreed product tools and methods with limited support
• Perlego is organised into cross-functional squads, each grouped under a layer of the business and each accountable for a small set of KPIs. Squads are made up of Product, Engineering, Design, QA and Data, and they own their problem space rather than a feature list
• We work in bets. A bet is a clearly stated hypothesis about how to move a squad KPI, with the evidence behind it, the scope, and what has deliberately been left out. Bets are proposed by the squad, reviewed in a company-wide roadmap cycle, and then delivered by the squad that proposed them
• Most bets are sized to ship and read within a quarter. Occasionally we commit to a bold bet, a larger piece of work that cuts across squads and gets its own team for a period
• We work in the open. Discovery notes, decision logs and weekly progress updates live in Notion where anyone in the company can read them. We expect people to bring evidence rather than opinion, to say what they traded away when they made a call, and to raise risks themselves rather than wait for them to surface. Product leadership reviews and challenges the work; it does not hand down the answer
• Your part in it. You run discovery and delivery for your bets with a Product Lead or Head of Product reviewing rather than directing. You bring your squad’s input into the roadmap cycle. You log weekly progress and flag your own risks. Secondment to a bold bet is possible

Benefits

• 🏠 Flexible: We operate a flexible hybrid working environment. If you’re based in London, we’d expect to see you in the office twice a week, if you’re outside of London we’d expect to see you at least 6 times a quarter (hopefully at our quarterly socials 💃). If you’re looking for a 100% remote role, this one is not for you.

At Perlego, we empower you to work in a way that supports your needs and your life. We trust people to know what works best for them.

We are flexible if you wish to work remotely overseas for short-periods of time, as long as you remain a UK tax resident 🗺

• 🌱 Unlimited Coaching Opportunities: Unlimited access to MoreHappi, an on-demand professional coaching platform to offer all employees access to unbiased and professional coaching opportunities
• 🤓 Learning Time: All employees have dedicated Learning Time
• 🌴 Work-Life Balance: Everyone needs a break, so enjoy 30 days off (incl. bank holidays) + 1 additional day annual leave for every year of service (up to 35 days)
• 🛐 Flexi Bank Holidays: We understand that not everyone aligns to the same calendar; we offer the flexibility to take your local countries bank holiday allowance for other religious or cultural days E.g. switch UK Easter Bank Holidays Days for Eid celebrations
• ❄️ Office Reset: All employees an also enjoy the days between Boxing Day and New Year off, to reset and refresh for the New Year - this is additional to your annual leave 🙂
• 🏖 Sabbatical: After three years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month unpaid sabbatical, and after five years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month paid sabbatical
• 💛 Personal Days: Life happens and we want you to be able to use your annual leave for resting, relaxing or taking time out to do something you love! We offer 1 additional day a year for life events (your wedding, relocation, moving house, or a child starting school)
• 🍏 Health & Wellbeing: We want everyone to feel healthy and happy, so we offer private medical insurance via Vitality.
• 💭 Mental Health: All employees get access to therapy and counselling through Vitality
• 🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme: We're committed to building a sustainable business, so we encourage cycling to work. Perlego will buy your bike of choice, which you'll pay back over 12 months
• 🎉 Social: We're a tight-knit bunch who enjoy our time to play. We have regular social events and activities for everyone - everything from white water rafting to board game nights
• 🍼 Family time: We believe family is really important; we offer new parents a competitive matched parental leave as well as phased return to work after 6 months leave.
• 👼 Workplace Nursery Benefit: We want to support working parents and carers, so we offer a workplace nursery benefit scheme, helping our employees potentially save thousands of £££ against the cost of nurseries each year