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GROOVY GECKO ARE EXPANDING AND RECRUITING ACROSS THE BOARD. WE ARE ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF PROVIDING VIRTUAL EVENTS USING OUR OWN ENTERPRISE CLASS EVENTS PLATFORM.

About the company

Groovy Gecko, who were established in 1999, is one of the pioneers and award-winning suppliers of live and on-demand streaming media services in the UK working with 350 clients around the world. Clients include BP, Facebook, Xbox, Nike, AKQA, GHD, Twitch, ARUP, Kaplan, O2, Scottish and UK Parliaments, Channel 4, YouTube and Warner Brothers.

Groovy Gecko is an equal opportunities employer. You must already be able to work in the UK. This position is based close to Old Street station with occasional UK, European and international travel and some unsociable hours working as is the nature of supporting international brands and live events.

Our employees live by our corporate and personal values of being fair, honest, open, professional, and reliable. We are committed to keeping our staff safe during Covid-19 and are currently are working remotely.

Role Overview

An unique opportunity has arisen to join a respected 21 year old pioneering Webcasting Company as a hands-on Development Team Leader. You will be leading a small team of passionate and capable developers to deliver complex on-line video development projects across a variety of products and technologies. The platform is currently being enhanced to service growing market demand for Virtual Conferencing. Offices are in Shoreditch, London however we are all working remotely at present.

This role includes an exciting opportunity to work with the Directors to steer the strategy of our flagship product – a leading Enterprise Video Platform used by an envious and extensive client base across a myriad of industry sectors. As such, you will influence the future direction of the department and systems used across the business and appreciate that our ‘can-do’ attitude and flat structure will allow you to affect change quickly.

As an experienced Development Team Leader, whilst being highly technical and hands-on capable, you will oversee all development projects across predominantly PHP, Laravel, Angular and SQL Server based technologies including integrations with 3rd party providers. Managing the successful delivery of projects will require you to plan, coordinate and lead activities across the full delivery lifecycle. This will include working closely with project managers, coordinating business analysts, architects and developers, as well as liaising with key project stakeholders as required.

Currently the team consists of two senior lead developers in London and 3 developers in Macedonia. You will mould their development and increase their knowledge and training by imparting your Systems Testing and DevOps experience,

Working closely with other team leaders you will ensure the structured and coordinated planning of your team’s development considering the chaotic and unique demands of a live events company’s deadlines. Your technical background and experience will ensure you can offer the guidance required being able to support and assist developers at code or methodology level.

To apply for this role, in addition to having a proven management background you must also have proven technical capability and a track record in software development combined with experience in the leadership of software development teams and delivery of projects within a software development environment. The role requires a motivated individual who is experienced in taking responsibility and can independently deliver results on both departmental and business projects.

Key Responsibilities

· Line management and personal development of a team of highly skilled developers.

· There is currently budget for recruiting additional talent for you to lead.

· Managing the delivery of multiple complex simultaneous system development projects from design through to release with various internal and external stakeholders.

· Capable of understanding and contributing to the technical solution from design through to code level

· Working closely with all stakeholders to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery

· Provide regular and effective progress updates to and work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure the management of any delivery risks or issues

· Define delivery phases of the project including activities, sub-activities, and milestones ensuring these are documented and used as the basis for the project event log, issues and risk log and any subsequent reporting

· Ensure awareness, involvement and support from the key stakeholders and participants by building strong project teams and maintaining robust communication on the project status throughout its life cycle

· Participate in reviews and meetings and provide updates on project progress

· Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely and drive all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards

· Work closely with relevant teams internally to ensure alignment and coordination across operations as part of the seamless implementation of existing and new systems

· Contributing to post implementation reviews helping to demonstrate success or otherwise of projects

· Supporting project resource scheduling and department capacity planning

· Contribution to the definition of departmental and systems strategies and progression of any allocated objectives

· Ownership, development, and management of allocated departmental processes

· Undertake small analysis projects in the form of consultancy

· Work on a wide range of projects involving the implementation of new and existing systems, solutions, and processes

· Take responsibility for making key decisions to ensure the successful implementation of all initiatives

· Ensure that ISO9001 and ISO27001 standards are maintained and enhanced.

Candidate Profile

· Experience of people management and the ability to lead and influence others

· Experience in formal personal development planning and individual, team and process performance management

· Degree in Computer Science, related field or equivalent experience

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

· Proven experience in leading and managing the delivery of complex, world-class, scalable system/software development projects

· Capable of developing long-term development and business technology strategies

· Demonstrable knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle (via Waterfall and Agile), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

· Experience in both architecture and implementation-level software design

· Experience in requirements capture, analysis techniques and process improvement approaches

• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

· Experience in the development of software using PHP and frameworks such as Laravel and Angular and SQL Server technologies

· Experience in the usage of testing methodologies

· Strong facilitation and coaching skills

· Excellent personal organisation and ability to prioritise and carry out multiple tasks

· Able to influence and drive projects to meet key milestones and overcome challenges

· Comfortable working without routine supervision

· A desire to remain technically capable and an expert in current technologies

Salary: £65,000 - £70,000 + Discretionary Bonus + Phone subsidy; dependant on experience

NO AGENCIES PLEASE. AGENCY CORRESPONDENCE WILL BE TREATED AS SPAM.

Reference ID: GGSDTLPOJAN2021

Expected start date: 01/02/2021

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £65,000.00 per year

Experience:

• Scrum Master: 2 years (Preferred)

Work remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19

Product Lead

AND Introduction

At AND, we accelerate the development of digital capabilities. In practice, that means helping ambitious leaders and organisations build the teams, products, processes and even operational structures they need to close the digital skills gap within their organisation today, so that they thrive tomorrow.

Clients rely on our experience, agility and craft skills across tech and business strategy, software development and product management to address some of the toughest challenges facing their businesses.

We bring aboard thinkers, tinkerers, passionate software craftspeople and inspiring technologists to help us solve these challenges. Together, we’re united by a sense of pragmatism, purpose and a deeply-held belief that digital products and technology alone won’t transform a business or save the world: it’s the people that count.

About You

As a Product Lead, you will grow a product team in the club and with clients, supporting the development of their skills. As a result, you will need to be able to:

• Motivate teams by developing and constantly sharing a compelling vision
• Set up our Product Managers for success. Combine senior ownership of the design and build of products with leading teams in order to ensure the delivery of high value client products
• Take ownership for the business metrics and product KPIs and play a pivotal role between our clients and our internal cross functional teams
• Identify, shape and secure new business opportunities

To do that, it’s essential you bring the following:

• 7+ years of experience in designing and launching ambitious products into markets
• A strong understanding of user centered design and agile methodologies
• Data-driven approach to prioritisation and rigorosity in measuring impact
• Strong, confident and effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams and coaching junior team members
• Self-drive and and a can do attitude; show a strong desire to succeed, always looking for opportunities, determined in pursuit of your own and the team / customers goals.

It’s helpful if you also have:

• The ability to own the entire product direction of our club, defining what ‘good looks like’
• Experience in working across multiple clients, projects and industry verticals
• The capability in this area whilst having a broad range of clients to work across
• Have a track record of playing a role in a product community

Joining AND

From the work we deliver, to the way we serve and support our people, we work hard to ensure that there’s nowhere quite like AND. But joining a company is a two-way street: the fit has to work on both sides. So before you apply, here’s three key things to understand about us:

• We’re built for people - like, real humans. Not ‘resources’ or ‘staff’. That means happiness and wellbeing really do matter to us, and we hate unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy.
• There’s no well-trodden path ahead: AND is growing fast and forging a new trail. That’s exciting, and gives us all the autonomy and opportunity we love - but bear in mind it also demands focus, patience and resilience.
• Diversity is a priority. After all, to build great products that a wide variety of different people love to use, we need a wide variety of people to help us build them. So diversity is more than a policy or a word: it’s business critical for us.

Still sound good? Great! Fill out the short application form below and we’ll be in touch.

About You

• 6+ years experience in Product Management, managing end-to-end product lifecycles from discovery to release
• A strong advocate of people development, with proven experience in a coaching or mentorship capacity
• Strong technical background, ideally a Computer Science degree, similar qualifications or experience
• Strong background with backend API-driven products
• Proven ability to work with and become a subject matter expert in a complex product
• Worked in an agile environment
• Solid communicator with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders across a variety of functions
• Flexible, adaptable and has a willingness to learn
• Tech-savvy, with a passion for everything Tech and Product
• Fluent in English

What you will be doing

• Be the core advocate for the Authentication team and product
• Lead the strategy, vision and roadmap for the Authentication team from inception to delivery
• Gain a deep understanding of Checkout.com’s customers
• Perform competitor analysis to determine industry trends and differentiating factors
• Work with the team in all areas of people development
• Utilise prioritsation methodologies to effectively prioritise the roadmap and backlog
• Lead cross-team projects raised by the Authentication team and work collaboratively on any other cross-team projects
• Work with an agile mindset
• Determine core stakeholders and communication methods to ensure alignment

Brandwatch is the global leader in social and digital consumer intelligence, working with the biggest brands and most admired agencies worldwide – 39 of the Fortune 100 are clients.

Recently named a leader in The Forrester Wave™, we build smart software solutions that help capture, understand and share insights from millions of conversations across the web and beyond. Home to over 500 people worldwide with offices in 10 locations, Brandwatch is a place that motivates and supports its staff to find answers to new problems in an ever changing social and digital world.

• This is a UK Remote position which requires candidates to have the right to work and be based in the UK.
  
  Our goal is to remain the innovative leader in digital consumer intelligence. We need people to join the Product team who can develop new ideas, deliver outcomes, and help define go-to-market positioning.
  
  The Product Manager will report directly to the Product Director or Product VP. You will be responsible for delivering impactful value to our customers, in a way that also drives our business performance. You will be able to use and interpret and leverage data to inform your thinking and check your assumptions, but also incorporate your experience and intuition into your decision making.
  
  Responsibilities

• Own the strategy and execution for a distinct section of the Brandwatch product portfolio.
• Lead and collaborate with a team of highly accomplished engineers and designers to create a data informed and regularly tested/reviewed roadmap of customer value.
• Deeply understand and care about the problems we’re solving for our customers.
• Integrate usability studies, research and market analysis into product requirements
• Develop well-defined acceptance criteria and drive execution accordingly, ensuring consistent, testable delivery of customer value.
• Own your objective and user outcomes; be accountable to your metrics.
• Be an ambassador for product vision across the company and externally
• Define and analyze product metrics that inform and drive iterative product evolution
• Communicate, lead, mentor, collaborate with positivity across teams
• Seek out and understand new & existing competitive and complementary products; and their strategic and competitive positioning
• Collaborate effectively with sales and customer success teams for enablement and feedback
• Maximize efficiencies in a continuously evolving product lifecycle process to optimize execution and facilitate collaborative communication

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of demonstrated experience of full product lifecycle execution in a highly iterative environment OR 2+ years of product experience AND 3+ years relevant industry experience.
• Experience with B2B or B2B2C user interfaces and experiences
• Working knowledge of web services, SaaS & cloud technologies and subscription model concepts
• Ability to form strong connections with people across the organisation and with a variety of mindsets/functions
• Results-oriented
• Creative thinker
• Collaborative problem solver
• Demonstrated ability to understand and speak with customers
• Excellent communication and organizational skills

We offer: Flexible & remote working, a competitive benefits package, an extensive people development program, including LinkedIn Learning for every employee and in-house courses such as our Brandwatch Leadership Development program, and community-focused groups, such as our Diversity & Inclusion and Green committees.

Working at Brandwatch: Our values are about being authentic, bold, and creative. And we believe these values are best embodied by enabling people to do their best work in an environment that works for them. Whether fully remote, within one of our global offices, or a combination of the two, we have the tools and resources to make working to these values both possible and enjoyable.

Marshmallow’s Mission

We’re building a digital insurer which is affordable, instant and inclusive.

We use machine learning, automation, our own technology stack and comprehensive data integrations to offer quicker, simpler and fairer insurance to customers. We’re trying to build the largest, most technological insurance company of our generation, and we’ve got a long-way to go!

Currently, despite only being founded 3.5 years ago, we are valued at over $300m and have raised $35m to date! We have also been named one of London’s best startups to work for in 2021, check out the article here.

We are a team of over 80, a 4.5* Trustpilot and are championed by amazing investors who have backed the likes of Monzo and Spotify.

You can find out about our culture and what working at Marshmallow is like here.

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to deliver an exceptional claims experience from the ground-up. This is a unique opportunity to lead a newly formed team, in a greenfield area, on a signature moment in the customer experience.

This team will focus on building tools for both customers and agents that improves operational efficiency while delivering a world class customer experience. This is a perfect opportunity for someone who gets excited at developing an end to end experience from scratch.

What you’ll be doing

• Define and drive overall product vision, strategy and metrics for claims, galvanise your team and others to follow you
• Define objectives and metrics for your team and measure how these improve over time
• Prioritise work to make sure your team is working on the most impactful projects
• Work with your team to build best practice processes
• Build a world class claims experience, while driving operational efficiency improvements
• Work closely with partners across Marshmallow to ensure that you and your team provide for the company’s short and long-term goals
• Use data to make product decisions and work alongside research & design to inform all stages of the process
• Make sure that your team is strong and healthy - including capabilities, happiness, resilience, and growth
• Make sure that your team is constantly doing the right things, and has a healthy balance of innovation, reducing technical debt, and providing maintenance and support

Requirements

• Experience - You have 5+ years experience in product management, or similar role leading cross-functional technical teams
• Customer obsessed - You are passionate about designing and building delightful user experiences. You are experienced in identifying behavioural insight from qualitative research. You have the ability to balance business and customer needs.
• Problem solver - You have strong business, analytical, and troubleshooting skills. You creatively solve problems by identifying real obstacles and viable solutions.
• Product leader - You have the ability to think about the long term vision & strategy while also being detailed when necessary to support the team with execution.
• Expert communicator - You have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You are able to quickly absorb technical concepts and effectively simplify and communicate them to a non-technical audience.
• Outcome oriented - You ruthlessly prioritise against objectives, articulate the desired outcome and work collaboratively to create a path to achieve it.
• Entrepreneurial - You are self-motivated and proactive. You have a high tolerance for ambiguity, ability to perform under pressure to meet deadlines and willingness to take risks.
• Relationship Builder - You have strong customer engagement and relationship management skills. You have an innate capability to, directly and indirectly, lead cross-functional teams through success.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options ‍‍‍
• 33 day holiday allowance (inc bank holidays) ️
• Pension
• Health insurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Learning and training
• Budget to help you set up working from home

Logistics

• Our process consists of an interview with our CEO who would be your line manager, a second stage with members of our product and design team where you will be asked to present a case-study for the session and finally a round with our CTO.
• We are able to let you know if you are invited to an interview or not. However, we do receive a lot of applications and as a small team we are unable to give individual feedback on each application
• Due to Covid we are currently working from home. We have an office space in Farringdon but how we use this will be driven by the guidance and advice at the time

The Company and Role

At HeliosX, we’ve experienced an exceptional period of growth as our group of companies continues to expand globally at a rapid pace and we continue to disrupt the health industry. To continue on this trajectory, we’re searching for an experienced Product Growth lead for MedExpress, the leading online pharmacy in the UK and recently launched in the US. Your primary focus will be in exploring and executing on how to drive exponential customer growth.

As a Product Growth Lead, you will define and execute the product growth strategy, focusing on all stages of the funnel (conversion, retention, referrals etc). This role involves everything from high-level product growth strategy to the execution, including new product features and enhancements designed to drive growth. You will also own the product metrics, analytics, testing and all of the tools and techniques to measure and optimize our product growth.

You will lead a team of designers, engineers and data analysts. You will also collaborate with Marketing, Brand, Operations and Clinical. This role reports directly to the Head of Product at HeliosX Group.

• Build and develop a product strategy for MedExpress, with long term vision and short term roadmap
• Provide leadership to the team, owning the user funnels within the product and major business KPIs in order to drive impact
• Champion customer needs by generating qualitative and quantitative insights
• Develop a vision for how we can use experimentation to drive growth from within the product, using a combination of scientific methods and creative approaches to drive step-changes to growth
• Lead the ideation, development and launch of new features and capabilities. Assess existing features on an ongoing basis by tracking and learning from their performance.
• Define processes and product improvements for continually learning from and iteratively improve the user experience
• Build, prioritize, and maintain the feature backlog for the product
• Work with your delivery team to deliver features, experiments, and optimisations efficiently in an agile development environment

Requirements

• 3+ years of Product Growth roles with emphasis on Conversion Optimization and user funnels
• Product management experience, particularly in B2C and/or e-commerce environments is a must
• Analytical and strategic thinker with a desire to play a huge role helping MedExpress prepare for hyper growth
• Customer-centric approach to problems while maintaining a sharp focus on commercial metrics
• Experience with data-based experimentation is a must
• Knowledge of product management best practices in an agile, cross-discipline environment
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead a team of engineers and designers
• Growth mindset and bias to action

• Adaptable and flexible. Feel comfortable being thrown into largely ambiguous environment

• Nice to have - Experience with US market growth

Benefits

• Excellent salary & bonus
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Health insurance
• 50% Gym discount
• Flexible working hours
• Fruit and snacks in the office
• Monthly social (activities & drinks)
• Lunch on Fridays
• Pension scheme
• An awesome team of bright and motivated people to work with!

An opportunity has arisen to join a growing entrepreneurial and digital business based in London. Launched in 2012, BorrowMyDoggy is one of the UK’s fastest growing online dog communities, enabling dog owners to connect with friendly locals who can help take care of their dogs.

In the last few years, BorrowMyDoggy's member base has grown rapidly, and our team has responded to this growth by iterating on, expanding and refining our systems and business processes. Now, we're looking for someone to help us to take the next few steps, where we are designing and building not just for today, but for tomorrow's world as well.

We're looking for a Product Lead who will be able to develop and shape ideas into deliverable, measurable projects, delivering real value for our members and our business. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, but able to see the bigger picture; committed to quality, but pragmatic and willing to iteratively refine; comfortable speaking with business stakeholders, customers, and our technical and operations teams with equal articulacy.

If you're interested in shaping the direction of an enthusiastic and dynamic team, focused on delivering life-affirming experiences to real people (and dogs!), and understand how to move from short-term planning to long-term strategy in an ever-changing market, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

• This role would involve working with operations, marketing, design and technical teams
• Nurturing product ideas and growing them into deliverable, measurable improvements for our business
• Working closely with the product team to specify the fine detail of functional requirements to ensure that they are appropriate and clear to developers
• Leading product testing in order to improve the quality of our platform

Experience

• Experience of domain modelling and its role in forming scalable business architecture and rigorous business processes
• Strong analytical skills; able to draw rational conclusions from data and use them to justify product decisions
• Detail-oriented and articulate, with a good understanding of agile methodologies, Lean, BDD, and the importance of drawing out the minimum viable product (MVP)
• Self-motivated, and able to conduct market research when required
• Some familiarity with technical approaches and language would be useful
• Familiarity with common QA and bug-reporting practices helpful
• Comfortable working within the constraints of the start-up world
• Experience with two-sided marketplaces a bonus
• Used to taking a pragmatic view to delivery without compromising longer-term strategic vision

Benefits

• Competitive salary and share options
• A great holiday policy
• Private healthcare
• Be part of a fast growing company creating an original product
• Being able to help make a positive difference on the lives of dogs and people

If you have a love of dogs and want to help grow a truly innovative and exciting proposition, then look no further, apply today with a full CV and a covering letter detailing why you would be pawsome in this role.

**No recruiters please**

Our Vision

Everybody has something they want to learn and something they can teach. We know that anyone can be a teacher. But in the past, teachers could only help those around them. Scoodle is creating a way for the whole world to become a classroom. Educators can share and create content that lives online and helps students grow. Students can learn from and connect with the teachers who resonate with them the most. The best teachers around the world are not always accessible. You may not know the world’s best piano instructor or the best English teacher, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Scoodle is opening up access to the best teachers, so that everyone can grow together.

It’s a pretty powerful vision, and we need to work with the best to achieve it. That’s why you’re here!

Where we are

We've put together a very talented team and launched our app just over two years ago. Since then we’ve got over 200k users on our platform, we were featured on the App Store and we brought the founder of Twitter onboard as an investor. It's been a great journey but we're just getting started.

How you fit in

You’ll report to one of the founders and work alongside as the representative of the product team, working to implement the product vision and outline the roadmap. You will also work with the rest of the Scoodle team, including our design lead and our engineering lead.

What you’ll do

• Overall responsibility for the successful execution of product
• Establish shared vision across the company by building consensus on priorities
• Lead the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative features
• Drive product development with a team of world-class engineers and cross-functional team including marketing and data
• Define and analyse metrics that inform the success of products

Requirements

• 4+ years experience in product positions
• 2+ years experience in fast-growing consumer tech company
• Product management experience within an in-house development team and being comfortable communicating with engineers
• Experience delivering mobile apps of a significant scale and complexity, shipping on a regular basis
• Strong knowledge of appropriate product performance metrics, and background in data-driven decision making and idea validation
• Highly independent, comfortable taking something at idea stage and fleshing it out yourself
• Proficiency in English, you feel at home writing anything from stories to press releases and reports

Benefits

• Equity! We want you to succeed as we do
• A learning budget - we’ll pay for things like courses and books so you can keep learning, it's the Scoodle thing to do
• You can work from home most days
• A competitive salary
• Unlimited holidays