Product Manager: Admissions

Product Manager: Admissions Contract type: Full-time, Permanent Location: Queen Square, Bristol Ideal start date: ASAP About Candide Candide is a growing market-network platform based in central Bristol enabling people to progress their passion for plants and nature through the application of technology. We have offices in Bristol (UK) and Stellenbosch (South Africa) with over 60 staff members. We openly put our people first, and we’re proud to be building a team that genuinely loves working and learning together. We know how important a positive, inclusive culture is, so have a read and see if you think we might be a good fit. About Candide Admissions Candide is rapidly becoming the partner of choice for visitable gardens to digitise more of their admission ticketing and membership processes. Following the creation of the UK’s largest digital-only garden membership, in 2020 we launched new solutions to enable the public to visit gardens contactlessly, including digital ticketing and check-in functionality. With more and more gardens joining the Candide family, we now have a dedicated team focussed on digital admissions for gardens and their events, and cross-platform garden membership solutions. The Role You will be joining and leading an autonomous cross-functional team made up of engineering, product design, data science, and account management and support roles, who share a passion for delivering value to our partners and end-users. In this role you will digitise more of the ticketing and membership products and services within garden venues: looking at how gardens offer events and workshops to drive visitation, and how they and their visitors can benefit from digital garden memberships. In doing so you will be thinking about our web and app platforms – for venues and their visitors – and how we deliver the right experience in the right way. Alongside this, you will consider new ways to leverage the increasing amounts of data we collect: to benefit our end-users and improve the way we develop products. Ultimately you will be motivated by enabling our garden partners to become more efficient through the use of technology, and passionate about the way Candide can help to sustain garden businesses for the future. Your background We are looking for a Product Manager who has experience delivering web and app products to market, ideally in an eCommerce business. We are looking for someone who can inspire and motivate as part of a diverse team. Ideally, you will have experience working in a 3-sided marketplace – serving both business clients and end-users – or will have previously worked with B2B and B2C products. You will be able to share examples of how you’ve taken a new product to market, and iterated on an existing one, and how you used data, research, and experimentation in your approach. We’d love to hear about how you’ve balanced longer-term prioritisation in your teams alongside grooming your backlog and keeping in-play work moving forward. You will be excited about talking to our friendly and knowledgeable customers to discover ways that we can add value to them and their visitors, and keen to share insights and best practices with your teammates and colleagues across Candide. Working at Candide We offer an amazing work environment – both in the office and outside of it, and a fast-paced development cycle that moves the product forward quickly and is very responsive to opportunity. We have a solid strategic plan, long-range funding, and a very experienced and capable team making it happen. Candide has a friendly, plant-filled Bristol office, which the team is looking forward to returning to when it is safe to do so. We are happy to accept candidates who are living elsewhere, provided that they are able to move to the Bristol area when the office reopens. Remote working is our new normal during COVID but candidates will be expected to work from the office in the future. Great communication means there is an inherent no-blame culture, and our collaborative and inclusive structure encourages everyone to share ideas on how we can improve our processes, growth, and product. Our teams have a short daily stand-up, this ensures we remain aligned, and those who build products stay very close to our customers that enjoy them. To encourage innovation, we hold monthly hack days where everyone can build something new that falls outside our current roadmap – an idea, a campaign or even a small product – with whomever they like. Our Values For plants and people ● We aim to be the most useful tool in a gardener’s pocket and to accentuate the social, environmental, and physical benefits already associated with gardening. ● We respect the backgrounds of everyone we interact with – within Candide and across the broader society in which we operate – and actively promote the inclusion of all. For the collective win ● We work together openly in a transparent and no-blame culture, encouraging innovation to leverage new, emerging technologies and continuously adapt to rapidly seize opportunities ● We always act with honesty and integrity, whilst focussing on the needs of our customers. For good ● We respectfully use our platform to encourage conscious, informed decision-making and work with individuals and companies to progress our values What You’ll Get From Us ● 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), because the rest of your life is important too ● An extra paid day off to spend among plants ● Regular team socials ● An amazing plant-filled office in Queen Square ● Your choice of equipment ● Pre-paid training budget for whatever you need to do your job more effectively ● Grant of SARs (Stock Appreciation Rights) after two years of employment ● Flexible working hours (core hours 10 am – 4 pm) ● Enhanced shared parental leave Application Process Please send a 1 or 2 page CV covering your employment history, relevant experience and education to recruit@candidegardening.com. Unfortunately, we cannot consider candidates who do not follow the above instructions. We recommend that you research the Candide website (candidegardening.com) and app (Candide) before submitting an application. Everyone is Welcome Please do not hesitate in contacting recruit@candidegardening.com If you want to find more before you apply. To find out more about Candide, visit our homepage and download the app candidegardening.com. Recruitment agencies Please read this. tl;dr: please don’t send us candidates unless you are on our preferred supplier list. Any candidates you do send will be treated as a gift. To find out more about Candide, visit our homepage and download the app candidegardening.com.

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