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Product Manager 🔥


Whereabouts: We work from everywhere within CET +/- 7 hours

Interviews: Around 4 hours over a few weeks, including some practical work [1]

Salary: £70,000 – £90,000

Reporting to: Ingrid Ødegaard

Ask us anything:   [2]Deep Nishar [3]

Your mission at Whereby [4]*

To lead a squad to contribute to a growth-focused product roadmap with commercial and technical objectives, while also contributing to evolve our product mindset and innovation.

*This is the mission that moves you and your team through our strategic roadmap, and should be your focus for up to a year or two.

What is Whereby all about

Freedom to work from anywhere: our mission with Whereby is to give people freedom to live and work where they thrive.

📍 Our global HQ is in Oslo, Norway, but our users (and team) are worldwide – having been used in nearly every country in the world by millions of folk. 🌏

By making it possible to collaborate as well over video as you can in real life, we want to give you the choice to work from where your life happens. To allow you to be in a place where you can think and focus, but also allow a seamless and instant connection with others when you need to.

For our 60 team members, and also for our customers, we know that the ability to decouple location from work can be life-changing. They can afford the house they want, can spend less time commuting, be closer to nature, and their children get to grow up seeing their grandparents every day. Everyone on our team enjoys the enormous benefits that a flexible work policy brings, and we truly believe the future of work will gravitate towards our vision of the future.

Product at Whereby

We strongly believe in the superpowers of an empowered, passionate and cross-functional product team. We are a product-led business who strive to evolve our product alongside users, exceed their expectations and delight them. We try to ensure both that we are building the right thing and building the thing right. We analyse data, talk to users, prototype and iterate. We focus on discovering and solving user problems, not just building and shipping features. As a member of our product team you’ll take on a key role in this process and see your work be used by millions of users worldwide.

🔍 What we’re looking for in our Product Manager

We’re looking for someone who has experience with driving product-led strategy with with great abilities to process and synthesize information. You make data-driven decisions and have a passion for product reliability and scalability.

🌎 We believe in everyone

We fundamentally believe talent is distributed to all of us in equal measure. We open our doors (physical or url) to everyone and we see our differences as a strength; it’s this philosophy that drives us towards our mission.

This means we see your unique history as having a value money cannot buy; we believe in the strength of every intersection of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity.

⚒️ The nuts and bolts of the role*

* Please do not see everything in this job ad as “must have”, but rather a guiding list of what we’re looking for. We know that no candidate will be the perfect match for all we’ve mentioned in this posting, so don’t be afraid to apply if you feel you’re close to the brief but not “spot on”.

Your attributes

  • 👩🏾‍💻 Tech-enabled
  • 🎨 Entrepreneurial
  • 💛 Empathetic and collaborative
  • 📈 Strategic and analytical, with a product mindset
  • 💪 Disciplined

Your previous experience

  • You are a current Product Manager or in similar roles
  • You have proven experience with product management and driving a product-led strategy with focus on the users
  • Experience with creating product and engineering road map
  • Leading at cross-functional team with engineers, product managers, marketers and designers

How we’ll measure your success🌟

  • Team retention and happiness (ENPS)
  • Customer satisfaction (NPS and Product-market fit survey)
  • Recruiting quality and successful hires
  • OKR/Product roadmap goal completion
  • Business metrics relevant for your product area

Strategic responsibilities

  • Build a growth culture based on product experimentation, data-driven decision, technological innovation, business acumen, and diversity of backgrounds, strengths, and attributes.
  • Drive our product-led strategy by understanding our users and the problems we solve for themWork with management to ensure product reliability and scalability, engineer buy-in for strategy and projects, and prioritisation.
  • Lead a team of Engineers, Product Managers, Marketers and Designers through decisions, processes, and culture in a way demonstrative of our company values.
  • Bring forward product-elevating ideas to further our teams and company (even if they challenge the status-quo).

Tactical responsibilities

  • Building and maintaining a product and engineering road map for your product areas
  • Together with the Product Management team, make decisions that concern the product team as a whole, to ensure consistency across the product suite.
  • Work together with other product teams on developing the product road map
  • Scoping and following up larger projects, in a way that team members feel involvedTogether with the Product and Engineering Management teams, build processes to ensure consistent quality and coherence in design, communication and product performance.
  • Embed a cultural focus on growth, testing, and reaching our commercial objectives while abiding by best practices.

Foundational responsibilities

  • Manage a cross-functional product team and steer day-to-day work on development within a product area.
  • Foster and nurture a seamless collaboration in the team and with the rest of the organisation.
  • Bring out the best possible insight into customer or logistics needs and problems worth solving together with designers, data analysts & scientists, software engineers, and more.
  • Challenge the team and company to take on hairy goals, to truly innovate and to have big-scale impact.
  • Make sure we know what we want to build; and base it on insight from all perspectives.
  • Clearly define and prioritise problems worth solving now, later or never with a data-informed approach.
  • Help and enable the team to design experiments, deliver, and to learn from actions in our build cycles.
  • Measure: Evaluate if the team is doing the right thing and has real impact; adjust strategy and priorities accordingly.
  • Communicate strategy, ideas, priorities, plans, effect and learning in an efficient and inspiring way
  • Coach team members on quality of product work, giving and receiving feedback, understanding product/design/engineering processes, and cultural knowledge-gaps.
  • Evaluate team members as part of performance evaluation process.
  • Contribute to recruiting processes for new members in your team.

Your progression

  • We have a program designed to support people who want to move into People management, and also offer expert track within product management.

You’ve read all this way… you may as well apply! 🙌


  1. https://www.notion.so/whereby/Interview-Process-Product-Management-a227a45de3c54f05b75b63ddc0fa7292
  2. https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepnishar/
  3. https://twitter.com/deepnishar?lang=en
  4. http://www.whereby.com/

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