Senior Product Manager (UK - Remote)

Spotted Zebra; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative tech company in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled Product Manager to lead their next-generation AI recruitment product. You will shape the product vision, manage cross-functional teams, and ensure a positive candidate experience. Ideal candidates have strong leadership skills in product management and experience with web-based SaaS products. The company offers a remote-first culture and a range of attractive perks including health insurance and share options.

Benefits

Health insurance

Enhanced pension

25 days holiday

Remote-first

Work from home budget

L&D budget

Wellbeing allowance

Travel insurance

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading end-to-end product management across complex web-based SaaS products.
• Strong execution and delivery skills with a track record of shipping impactful products.
• Ability to balance user needs, commercial priorities, and technical feasibility.

Responsibilities

• Own a key product area, working closely with the Head of Product to develop vision and strategy.
• Understand and validate the real needs of users.
• Accountability for the delivery and success of products.

Skills

Leadership in product management

Strong execution skills

User research capability

Collaboration with engineers

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Tools

Vibe coding tools

SaaS product experience

Job description

About Spotted Zebra

At Spotted Zebra, we're revolutionising how the world's leading organisations build future-ready teams. We're an award-winning Series A company whose Interview Intelligence and Assessment platform combines cutting‑edge skills science with responsible AI to help enterprises make better, more objective hiring decisions with confidence every time.

What we do: We're redefining how great teams are built, helping organisations identify, evaluate, and secure the right talent with precision and speed. Our comprehensive platform features AI‑powered interview tools, validated blended assessments, and industry‑leading skills science that transforms conversations into meaningful insights and empowers data‑driven decisions that drive real impact.

The numbers that matter:

🚀 25% faster time to hire
⚡ 20% improved speed to competence
💰 8x return on investment

Who's already on board: Forward‑thinking teams at Virgin Media O2, Lidl, Merlin Entertainments, and Paramount trust us to help them spot the right hire every time and deliver hiring magic.

Why this matters: We're not just another HR tech company. We're solving one of the biggest challenges facing every growing business: finding and hiring exceptional people, fast. Our platform doesn't just assess candidates - it predicts success and empowers talent teams with AI tools they love.

Our Dazzle (That's Our Team!) 🦓

Fun fact: A group of zebras is called a dazzle - and ours truly is dazzling!

We create a culture in which our team thrives and gallops ahead.

As we roam free and empower our dazzle, we gallop ahead on the journey to achieving our goals. We understand this journey will pose challenges along the way, yet we brighten the trail with our positive mindset and encouragement of others. The dazzle continuously moves, gaining knowledge and skills so that we can graze new grounds.

What You'll Be Doing

You’ll take ownership of our next‑generation AI recruitment product, crafted to solve one of the biggest recruitment challenges whilst ensuring every candidate has a fair and positive experience. Working closely with our AI/Data Science and Occupational Psychology teams, you’ll shape how hiring teams understand talent and make their most important decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Owning a key product area, working closely with the Head of Product to develop our overall vision and strategy
• Shaping a vision for your product area that aligns with our overall company vision, inspiring your team in building towards it
• Understanding and validating the real needs of users using a mix of quantitative data analysis and qualitative user research
• Generating great ideas, working closely with Design, Engineering and Data Science AI and operations functions
• Leverage AI to accelerate discovery and delivery, enabling your team to work efficiently and deliver impact quickly.
• Identifying clear and measurable metrics to monitor the success of the product
• Accountability for the delivery and success of your products, reporting progress to stakeholders across the business
• Owning the product backlog, prioritising considerately to balance new offerings, experience improvements and platform improvements
• Ensuring the team has clear objectives (outcome‑focused where possible), and everyone is clear on what they are doing and how it contributes to the overall company strategy

Must-Haves ✅

• Proven experience leading end‑to‑end product management across complex, web‑based SaaS products.
• Strong execution and delivery skills, with a track record of shipping impactful products at pace in startup or scale‑up environments.
• Skilled in discovery, able to frame problems clearly, validate assumptions with users, and test ideas fast through data and prototypes.
• Experience collaborating closely with engineers and designers in small teams.
• Comfortable operating in a lean, high‑autonomy environment, where prioritisation and trade‑offs must be made quickly.
• Ability to balance user needs, commercial priorities, and technical feasibility, and to define clear, outcome‑focused objectives for the team and organise the delivery.
• Comfortable creating wireframes, user flows, and light UX designs using a design system, bridging product thinking with design execution.
• Experience delivering AI features within SaaS products.
• Strong understanding of AI fundamentals and principles.
• Good understanding of AI compliance, to drive responsible and ethical product development.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to influence and inspire at all levels.
• A curious, resourceful, and adaptable thinker who thrives in ambiguity and is excited about shaping how AI will transform product development and delivery.
• You’ve led a cross‑functional, remote product team with agile ways of workings.
• You energise and inspire the people you work with.
• You have strong analytical skills, producing actionable recommendations from quantitative data and user research.
• You have a firm understanding of design thinking (or a similar innovation approach), user research methodologies, and experience partnering with Designers.
• You are an advocate for your users, championing their needs across the business.

Nice-to-Haves 🌟

• Experience with vibe coding tools (such as Lovable AI and Claude AI).
• Experience within HR Tech.

🤝 Meaningful share options
🏥 Health insurance
💰 Enhanced pension
🍼 Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
🏖️ 25 days holiday
🏠 Remote‑first
💻 Work from home budget
🧠 L&D budget
🦷 Dental cover
👀 Eyes care support
🏢 Co‑working space
🧘 Wellbeing allowance
✈️ Travel insurance
🚗 Electric car scheme

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

At Spotted Zebra, we welcome people of all stripes. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and an inclusive and diverse culture.

We believe that each and every one of us possesses an extraordinary set of skills and abilities, waiting to be discovered, nurtured, and harnessed for the benefit of all.

We are a team. And no matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability, we will empower you to unleash your superpower to help us create a world where everyone is able to utilise their unique blend of skills and abilities to contribute to the greater good.

Everyone is unique and we encourage you to let us know in your application, or share with your recruiter directly, if there is anything we can do to make your interview experience with us more comfortable and positive.

At Spotted Zebra, everyone is welcome. So even if you don't meet all the requirements, we would still love to hear from you. We are always keen to speak with people who are passionate about our mission.

Ready to gallop ahead with us?

We're a team that moves fast, thinks big, and isn't afraid to challenge how things have always been done. If you're excited about using AI and skills science to transform how the world hires, apply now and a member of our dazzle will be in touch! 🦓