Head of Product

Who We Are

Our romantic relationship with our partner is one of the most important parts of our lives, but building and maintaining a happy relationship over time can be challenging. We want to make the journey easier. 

We believe in the daily practice of love, and through our award-winning mobile app launched in October 2020, we've been helping couples connect in a fun, effective, and affordable way. Recognized as one of Google's Best Apps of 2020 and Apple App of the Day in January 2023, we proudly serve over 250,000 users daily, establishing ourselves as the #1 player in the relationship management category.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Head of Product to help us become a long-term guide for millions of couples at every stage of their relationship. Working closely with stakeholders, you’ll shape our product strategy and have overall responsibility for our product roadmap, execution and team of PMs.

This is a player-coach role, meaning you’ll be a PM for one of our squads whilst also leading and managing the other PMs at Paired (currently 1 PM, planned to be 2 PMs later this year).

This is a unique opportunity to bring a product loved by couples to the mainstream and work with colleagues who have extensive experience growing top-grossing apps.

What Your Role Encompasses

• Shape Paired’s product strategy, taking into account user needs, business growth, and company strategy
• Own the overall product roadmap, ensuring we are prioritising the most impactful things
• Perform qualitative and quantitative research to discover user needs and validate ideas before development
• Drive features through the product lifecycle of ideation, specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration
• Hire, mentor, and lead a world-class team of product managers
• Analyse data on product performance and find opportunities for growth
• Define and manage the roadmap for the Engagement & Growth squad
• Level up product management processes across discovery, prioritisation, analysis, documentation, and more
• Set, track progress against, and hit quarterly squad OKRs and their associated KPIs
• Work closely with design, research, content and engineering to ensure we deliver an excellent product experience
• Partner with the marketing team to shape our go-to-market approach for new features

Requirements

• Significant experience as a product manager, preferably at the intersection of product and growth
• Fluent in best practices of mobile and web growth, retention, and monetization
• Strong leadership and coaching skills; able to attract, recruit, lead and develop the best talent
• Experience successfully scaling consumer mobile app products used by millions of people
• Passionate about building insight into user problems through research and using this as a key input into decision making
• Excellent data analysis skills; uses data to inform product decisions
• Strong understanding of agile modern software development approaches
• Passionate about helping couples have happier relationships
• Roll-up-your sleeves attitude; able to step in where required and lead by example
• A valid UK or European working permit or passport (no sponsorship requirements)

Benefits

• Yearly salary between  £95-105K (role is available in other European markets, the salary will be slightly adjusted to the cost of living in your country)
• Significant stock options
• Fully remote work setup from any European country within ±1 hour of London time
• 3x company offsites every year (e.g. in Malaga, Florence, Lisbon...)
• Subsidised co-working space
• 25 days annual leave (+public holidays)
• Yearly learning budget of £1,000 / €1,150
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Opportunity to help millions of people with their relationship
  

Diversity & Inclusion at Paired

• Our core value is championing relationships. Our app was built to serve all couples regardless of culture, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity
• We strive to create an inclusive environment where unique perspectives are encouraged, as we firmly believe that diversity enhances our company, culture and product
• We regularly review our hiring processes, materials and pipeline to ensure they are accessible and free of bias, offering equal opportunity to underrepresented groups. We are also always learning. We maintain open minds and welcome feedback on how we can improve, no matter where it comes from

Hiring process

1. Application review
2. First interview to learn more about your experience and answer your initial questions
3. Product related task to prepare at home
4. Team interviews with Product team members, an Engineering Manager, our CMO, CTO and CEO