Product Manager

Life at Elvie – Meaningful work. Exceptional people. We develop extraordinary and smart technologies designed to improve the lives of women. It’s a fascinating and challenging area that requires us to solve the problems that no one else has ever tackled before. Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected trainer that helps women strengthen their pelvic floor muscle via fun, five-minute workouts. It took the wellness industry by storm and is now available via the NHS Supply Chain. Our street cred is backed up by more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious Red Dot Award and an IDA Design Award. Our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent hands-free, wearable breast pump, has received international praise, including being listed as one of the Times 100 best inventions in 2019 and ‘wearable design of the year’ at the Dezeen Awards. Our 3rd & 4th innovation: Elvie Catch and Elvie Curve launched on 7th October 2020. Elvie Curve uses natural suction to gently express milk during let-down while feeding or pumping from the other breast. It is small, compact, and securely worn in-bra. Elvie Catch, “Stops your leaks, not your day” is a set of two breast milk collection cups with slip-proof silicone skirts designed for total comfort and confidence. Discreet and fuss-free.Elvie has received more than 30 awards, including being named one of 15 startups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and ranked as the 6th fastest growing business in the UK by SyndicateRoom in 2019. Tania Boler has recently been rated as the 8th most influential person shaping british technology in 2019 by Business Insider and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B, the largest ever fundraise in Femtech. How do we like to work? You will be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them. People who are passionate about our mission. People who are driven to solve tough problems and constantly consider the best ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women. We’re deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive: We’re fearless – We tackle taboos and break boundaries, requiring sensitivity and courage. We’re innovators – We are passionate, curious and data-driven. We are constantly learning how to work smarter, faster and better. Always embracing change and innovation. We’re in it together – Together, we are constantly learning, embracing change and seeking innovation, whilst having fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences.   About the role You will be joining the cross-functional product team and should be excited about working with other product managers, hardware & software engineers, data scientists, designers, and researchers. You’ll need to be up for hitting the ground running. With two products launched, more markets opening up and new ideas that need to become a reality, there’s plenty to get involved with. We will look to you to help us develop products we can be proud of as we put the user at the centre of the design process and ensure we take a holistic view of the product experience. You will have the opportunity to grow with exposure working throughout the product lifecycle from NPI to maintenance in market, on both hardware and software elements.   The Day to Day of the role Working with the product management team, you will help steer our product development to ensure we deliver against the product vision and delight our users. You will:

Get under the skin of our users. Working closely with product researchers, you’ll be involved in planning and conducting user research, learning about customer needs first hand Translate customer needs into product shaping information, writing user stories and user requirements and briefing relevant teams Communicate user needs and product plans to a variety of audiences. You must be able to sell the dream and fight the user’s corner

  Development Guide – working across hardware and software teams to deliver one cohesive product experience in line with the vision. You will:

Work side by side with cross-functional teams to help guide product development, making sure the product vision is a constant throughout Will join daily stand-ups with our app dev teams and product team catch-ups Stay on top of what our competitors are up to and the results they are getting. Where valuable and relevant, the team will use the intel to inform our product development Manage, update and prioritise a backlog of features and communicate this to engineers. You will also work with the in house design team (SD/UX/UI). You will use Jira and Asana.

  Problem Solving – hungry to make things better and up for the challenge of tackling unknowns. You:

Are curious and questioning – ask questions to ensure we identify route causes not symptoms, to design the right solutions Are driven to make a better quality outcomes for the user, while finding the right balance and understand when is “good enough” Are happy to iterate, identifying opportunities to improve existing processes and tools, and introduce new ones to support the scaling up of development work

  Stakeholder Manager – you can work with a variety of different people, personalities and business units seamless balancing needs, hearing and being heard. You

Are a good listener and make sure people feel heard Will hear a muddle of different perspectives and be able to analyse the situation and identify paths forward acknowledging the compromises Are a natural collaborator – keeping the people informed, without adding unnecessary noise or complexity Manage change: you’ll get buy-in for the changes from stakeholders, and guide the implementation using data to understand and improve iteratively

  Requirements

2 years experience Product management, connected devices/ HW&SW a bonus Can demonstrate a solid level of commercial experience, including within a mature agile environment Preferably time with a startup or organisation that has gone through the scaling process Demonstrable experience in modern user testing, tech product development, and agile project management processes and tools (e.g Google Analytics, Jira) Excellent written and spoken English Interest in women, health and all things tech A huge drive to help Elvie reach the next level, and to develop yourself on the journey

  What are some of the perks of working at Elvie? We are looking after you. As well as the chance to develop products with real work impact and working with dedicated and passionate colleagues, our benefits have flexibility and wellbeing in mind with:

Great work environment – regular company socials, free daily snacks Flexible work environment built on trust and autonomy Enjoy employee / friends & family discounts on Elvie products Annual personal development allowance & unlimited access to our learning & development platform A tax-efficient group pension scheme with SmartPension A tax-efficient charity donation scheme Life Insurance with Yulife Medical, Dental & Optical cash-plan with WPA Employee Assistance Program for you and your family Generous employee referral program Cycle Scheme & Tech Scheme YuLife Well-being app & access to SmartHealth app with unlimited GP appointments for you and your family, plus various well-being initiatives throughout the year

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