(Senior/Lead) Product Operations Manager - London

Personio SE & Co. KG; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Product Operations expert to drive operational excellence within the product management lifecycle. This role offers the chance to influence product strategy and improve processes in a dynamic environment. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure successful product launches and enhance efficiency. The company values diversity and inclusion, providing a supportive workplace where your contributions make a real impact. Join a forward-thinking team and help shape the future of HR technology while enjoying a range of benefits and a flexible working framework.

Benefits

28 days paid vacation

Impact Days

Generous family leave

Mental health support

Sabbatical opportunities

Annual personal development budget

Remote-friendly working framework

Company events and celebrations

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management, with a focus on B2B or SaaS environments.
• Strong project management skills and a customer-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Streamline processes for goal setting and strategic planning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to connect software development to business outcomes.

Skills

Product Management

Project Management

Data Analysis

Agile Methodologies

Change Management

Customer Focus

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Product Analytics Tools

Documentation Software

Job description

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Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our growing team of 1,800+ Personios across Europe and the US are building user-friendly products that delight our 14,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?

Permanent employee, Full-time • London

The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio

At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive our customers' outcomes by designing, developing and delivering innovative and high-quality products. Be empowered to take ownership of your areas and make an impact on your team, our product, and our customers.

At Personio, Product Operations' mission is to enable Product Management who are trying to create world-class products at scale. We do this by connecting Product teams with the relevant inputs they need to set strategy, prioritize initiatives and track and communicate progress. We also support successful launches by continuously improving our ways of working within PTech and with cross-functional partners in Customer Experience, Product Marketing and Sales.

In this role, and as part of the team, you will be instrumental in driving operational excellence within the product management lifecycle, driving continuous improvement in how we work and role modeling a can-do problem-solving attitude and customer-first mindset.

Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Planning: Streamline and execute processes for goal setting, strategic planning and continuous planning cycles, connecting strategy with execution.
• Data: Collaborate with Product Analytics and cross-functional teams (CX, Sales, and Product Marketing) to embed timely feedback loops, bringing in relevant business and customer data to connect software development activities to business outcomes and inform priorities.
• Operating Model:
  • Process: Improve internal and cross-functional processes to optimize efficiency and quality of product releases and launches.
  • Tooling: Be at the forefront of understanding Product tooling needs, defining use cases and requirements and sourcing scalable, fit-for-purpose solutions that allow us to work more effectively.
  • People: Provide support and enablement to product teams on relevant operational processes and tooling.
• Documentation: Maintain a centralized source of relevant templates, documentation, knowledge management resources and onboarding materials to ensure aligned practices are well understood.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• You have 7+ years of experience working closely with, or directly as, a product manager creating products and evolving ways of developing software in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Experience with release management in a B2B or SaaS environment.
• You have a proven track record of successfully building and launching products, with minimum overhead and a deep understanding of end-to-end product development processes, best practices and tools.
• You have successfully led change management initiatives to ensure smooth implementation of durable processes, tools, and methodologies working with cross-functional teams across different departments.
• You have strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• You can successfully analyze data to provide actionable insights that inform product strategy and operational improvements.
• You have a strong customer focus (internal and external), with a drive to continuously discover and solve problems to deliver high-quality outputs and impactful outcomes.
• Critical to success in this role is your ability to navigate ambiguous problems, set clear priorities and thrive in collaborating with others to make progress and drive impact.
• You are self-driven, have excellent time management skills, a problem-solving mindset and experience dealing and communicating with senior stakeholders and large organizations.

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• Receive a competitive reward package - reevaluated each year - that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.
• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!).
• Make an impact on the environment and society with 2 (fully paid) Impact Days - one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative.
• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares.
• Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! Most teams offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework.
• Invest in your development with an annual personal development budget to use on professional memberships, external certifications, conferences, and more.
• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations.
• Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes.