Who We Are

Founded in 2006, BlueOptima is the only company providing objective software development productivity metrics. The technology has been implemented by some of the world’s largest organisations including insurance companies, telecoms and nine of the world’s top twelve Universal Banks. This successful product uptake has led to rapid expansion of the company, which since commercialising in 2014, has doubled its revenue and head-count year upon year, with no signs of stopping!

BlueOptima is a profitable, high-growth independent software company with six global locations (HQ in London and 5 additional offices in India, Mexico and the US) and is an Equal Opportunities employer.

Our Product:

Our distinctive technology was initially devised in seminal research carried out at Cambridge University, and we now have enabled some of the largest and most successful organisations in the world to deliver better software, faster and at a lower cost. Our technology is pushing the limits of complex analytics on large data-sets with more than 15 billion static source code metric observations of software engineers working in an Enterprise software development environment.

By putting the customer first, we have since developed three new ground-breaking products to help our client base get the best out of their software through understanding the efficiency of their software development teams.

The Role:

As a Product Manager, you will be building and developing your own team to focus on one of our main products: Predictive Assessment. You will be in a cross functional role which will involve working with Sales, Marketing, Data Science and Engineering to draw and manage product strategy and feature pipeline. 

Tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Taking charge of and owning responsibility for the development of the Predictive Assessment product. 

• Developing and driving the product vision and strategy across BlueOptima with senior stakeholders

• Owning and defining new product features, roadmaps and success metrics

• Working with Sales & Marketing to drive forward the product launch of Predictive Assessment and grow its impact on company revenue.

• Manage and grow your own team of Product Managers, Associates and Interns to execute the product strategy and vision, setting out clear expectations.

• Working with external stakeholders on user testing to rigorously determine customers' needs in a data-driven way and translate client feedback into actionable insights for further developing the product

• Own requirement collection initiatives involving collecting comments and feedback internally from Data Science, Sales & Marketing teams to sanity check the collected requirements with the Engineering team.

• Responsible for delivery timeline and work across teams to get release prerequisites carried out.

• Work with technical writers on generating required release notes and documentation for release.

• Set-up, maintain and manage JIRA structure and track status with the team members.

• Prepare risk analysis and mitigation plan. Also ensure all the risk elements are identified, analyzed and mitigated throughout the entire project cycle.

• Be a clear communicator and creator of product decisions and the rationale behind them.

• Understand markets, competition and customer/user requirements in depth to identify market opportunities and new feature requirements, and build business cases.

Who We Are Looking For:

We are looking for a forward thinking individual who uses data to implement innovation and solutions. This person will be  commercially and technically minded, in order to manage and deliver our products directly to our client base, in a timely manner. They will thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment and are adaptable to change, finding new ways to solve issues and take advantage of opportunities. 

Essential:

• Bachelor's degree in an analytical, data-driven subject (e.g. Computer Science, STEM or equivalent)

• Experience in Product Management within a growth start-up SaaS organisation, leading end to end project delivery of small to medium and complex projects, involving multiple teams and stakeholders

• Experience with 2 or more different product strategies across multiple companies

• Experience working with senior stakeholders, both internal and external, and with cross-functional teams

• Built prioritisation frameworks and road-maps

• Experience in Product scoping, requirement gathering, schedule and estimations reviews and validations, project execution, tracking and monitoring, documentation of concerned projects.

• Experience in managing individuals or teams. 

• Hands on experience with project planning, risk assessment and mitigation (risks, actions, issues, dependencies and changes), project reports, presentations, organise meetings and capture MOM. 

• Worked on setting and applying KPIs and metrics to measure success and provide objective oriented results

Desirable:

• Worked on data analysis, visualisation and clustering in a data science position

• Technical understanding of Google Analytics, JIRA and Figma

• Experience/interest in UX/UI design

• Proven experience in launching new products

Why Work For Us?

Our product is unique within the market and, even with the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, we have still maintained rapid growth within the company. There is huge scope for the growth of our product department and we’re looking for someone to take the reins and own the future development of their own team. 

With a large focus on learning and development, we want you to grow alongside us as we strive to be one of the most innovative SaaS scale-ups in the UK today. The future is looking bright!

• Competitive salary

• Rapid growth and development

• Support for extra learning and development courses

• Work alongside like minded, passionate individuals 

• Stimulating challenges where 2 days are never the same

• New, modern offices based in central London

• Free coffee, tea, snacks and more

Salary: £50 - 55K (plus £5K annual bonus)