Group Product Manager

About us  

We’re Dayshape - an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.    

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams—we're helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.  

Why our customers love Dayshape:  

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.    

• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.    

• We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work - and the best clients want to work with.   

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the ScotlandIS awards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact, and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us.  

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team, driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk.   

About the role  

At Dayshape, we’re investing heavily in our product.  With this comes increased headcount in our Product Management team, so we’re introducing the Group Product Manager role to provide strategic leadership across the increasing scope of our ambitious roadmap. 

This role is one of two Group Product Managers in the team and reports directly to the VP Product & Cofounder.  The role has two primary responsibilities: 

• Product Leadership: overseeing product development and setting the vision and direction for the Platform & Data side of the Product & Engineering organisation. This includes teams that look after software architecture decisions, infrastructure, data architecture and integration APIs. 

• People Management: line management and coaching Product Managers and/or Product Owners who are working in their team. 

In addition, it is expected that GPMs will: 

• Retain elements of hands-on Product Management at times, whether to explore early-stage ideas that do not fit within the capacity of their team, or to provide cover for members of their team. 

• Act as a senior representative of the Product team, for example in customer or prospect meetings or industry conferences.   

What you’ll do  

Product Leadership 

• Working with their team to develop the product vision, strategy, and high-level roadmap for their domain, and in doing so contribute to the overall product vision. 

• Evangelizing the product vision, strategy, and high-level roadmap to internal audiences, customers and prospects 

• Working with Marketing and Sales to ensure our product story is communicated effectively to the market at large and to individual prospects 

• Reviewing and challenging the detailed product roadmap created by their team and collaborating with Engineering leadership to review the technical approach being taken to solve problems 

• Oversight and overall ownership of the delivery of the product roadmap in their scope 

• Engaging with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to gather feedback and inform product decision-making 

• Monitoring market trends, competitor offerings, and emerging technologies to identify new opportunities and risks 

• Collaborating with Engineering leadership to evolve the structure, talent, processes and technology of the combined team to continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of delivery 

• Identifying the most effective way to deliver product investments, which may include working with and managing third-party suppliers. 

• Influencing the allocation of budgets and resources to maximise the achievement of the organisation’s goals. 

People Management  

• Provide leadership and line-management to a team of 3-6 Product Managers and/or Product Owners 

• Run 1:1s and support personal development planning with their team to fostering their professional growth 

• Be a sounding board and a reviewer for their team, to coach and provide advice and guidance on their decisions 

• Model and champion our company values  

• Help their team identify OKRs for their teams and themselves 

• Conduct appraisals as per the company-wide process 

• Plan the evolution of your team - identifying growth opportunities, managing poor performers and hiring to fill anticipated needs 

About you  

To be successful in this role you’ll need to be: 

• Technically minded – it is likely that you moved into Product Management from an Engineering background and you’ll have a good understanding of engineering concepts and risks 

• Highly adaptable—comfortable moving between internal stakeholder meetings, customer calls and technical discussions  

• An exceptional communicator, able to build trust, challenge others and explain complex ideas clearly 

• Intelligent and quick to grasp new concepts 

• Confident working with uncertainty  

Bonus points if you: 

• Have worked in/with the professional services industry 

• Have experience with complex ERP or project management software 

• Have experienced being part of a scale-up 

What you’ll get  

• Salary c. £85,000 - £100,000 dependent on experience 

• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development  

• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days  

• Private health insurance 

• Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement  

• Enhanced family leave policies 

• Income protection and death in service cover  

• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme  

• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service  

• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work  

• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication  

• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!  

• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company 

Working Details 

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we’re happy to be flexible around this. If you’d like a flexible working arrangement, please just let us know in your application.

We’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, able to work on a hybrid basis between home and our Haymarket office. We don't mandate required office days, but we find that most of the team enjoy working from the office 2-3 days a week to connect with their team and other Dayshapers, to make use of space, and for meetings and collaboration. 

Join the team! 

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background. 

Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand 

The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 23rd February, with interviews taking place over the following couple of weeks.