Junior Product Manager - EMEA - Fully Remote

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Junior Product Manager to join our dynamic team in Product. As a key player in our organisation, you will play a crucial role in modelling and analysing large volumes of payroll data to drive business insights and enhance our product offerings. The successful candidate will have a strong analytical background, technical expertise, and a good understanding of product management and development. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure the seamless integration of data-driven solutions in our payroll and finance products

The Junior Product Manager plays a critical role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical implementation, contributing to the success of product development initiatives within the organisation

Overall, a Junior Product Manager in a payroll processing company should possess a combination of technical prowess, domain knowledge, analytical acumen, and interpersonal skills to excel in modelling large amounts of data for payroll and finance related insights and decision-making.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a growing company while advancing your career in the fields of product, payroll and finance.

What will you do? (The role)

You have a strong builder mentality, incredible drive and be naturally curious. You are especially good at detangling complex processes and turning them into a simple, rationalised problem space. You can hit the ground running quickly because you're a person who takes initiative, communicates well, and drives things forward independently.

• Facilitate a development team and multiple product areas to discover user needs, defining and refining team KPIs and objectives whilst balancing tech tradeoffs to optimise a product roadmap that can be executed quickly and incrementally to start adding value;
• Data Modelling: Analyse and interpret data to identify trends, patterns, and correlations, using various data modelling techniques to uncover valuable business insights;
• Business Requirements: Collaborate with stakeholders independently, to gather and understand their needs, translating business requirements into actionable technical specifications for product development, whilst working with our product designers and engineers to refine further;
• Functional Specifications: Create detailed documentation, including functional specifications, user stories, and use cases, to communicate clear and concise instructions to development teams;
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for process optimisation and efficiency improvements by leveraging data-driven insights and user feedback, whilst crafting a well defined and considered target operating model to drive business change;
• Quality Assurance: Validate the functionality and performance of developed products against the defined specifications, ensuring alignment with business needs;
• Product Development Support: Work closely with development teams during the product development lifecycle, providing guidance and clarification as needed;
• Testing and Validation: Conduct testing and validation of new features and enhancements to ensure they meet business objectives and quality standards;
• Product-Market Fit: Obtain a strong understanding of the users and market for your product, from competitive analysis to user segmentation, and drive this understanding through the business.

What are you great at? (Previous experience)

• Working with payroll data requires a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. A Junior Product Manager must be meticulous in their work to ensure precise calculations and error-free payroll processing;
• Analytical Problem-Solving: The ability to identify patterns, trends, and anomalies in payroll and financial data and propose effective solutions is critical. A skilled Junior Product Manager can apply analytical thinking to tackle complex payroll-related challenges;
• Collaboration and Communication: As the role involves working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, strong collaboration and communication skills are necessary. The Junior Product Manager should be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and elicit requirements effectively;
• Adaptability and Agility: A suitable Junior Product Manager must be adaptable and agile in responding to evolving data requirements and adjusting models and/or requirements accordingly;
• Business Synthesis: The ability to synthesise analyses in a structured way to drive change, through compelling case studies, backed-up by data and strong recommendation for consideration by our leadership, product and engineering teams.

You're the kind of person who... (Requirements)

You will have relevant commercial experience that can be applied to this role - you may have experience in: Product Management, Business Consulting, or Business Analysis primarily in the B2B space and working in or around software development projects to solve complex business problems and evidence improvement and value-add.

You’re adept with data; modelling it and driving key insights to steer the strategic direction of a company, through the synthesis of these insights into suitable presentations and documents for all levels of an organisation.

What would make you really stand out? (Bonus points)

• Delivered, or facilitated, a mass-market B2B product or service via a bespoke tech (digital) platform;
• Experience with payroll or finance software and businesses;
• Experience with Product Management in a startup or scale up;
• Experience with a service-based product.