Lead Product Manager

Why will you enjoy this opportunity?

Cervest is building the world's first open access AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform. We are at an exciting moment in the company with our first product, EarthScan™, already having a positive impact for our customers. Now we’re looking to expand our product suite both horizontally and vertically. This role is an opportunity to play a key part in this next stage of growth toward our ambitious vision of putting Climate Intelligence at the core of every decision.

What are the expectations over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

In the first year at Cervest you’ll take one of our new product extensions from an initial scientific feasibility study to launching a Minimum Valuable Product into the market. Your journey will likely take you through: 

• Market research and segmentation
• Competitor analysis
• Partnering with UX Research to uncover user needs
• Rapid prototyping and testing with target customers
• Partnering with our commercial team on pricing strategy
• Developing a set of MVP features
• Collaborating with scientists to assess technical feasibility
• Establishing success metrics and tracking against them

If your MVP is successful, you’ll define the next stage of growth for your new product area and set the team on track to achieve it. If a pivot is in order, you’ll lead the redefinition of the product area and share learnings across the business. 

What type of work will you be doing on a regular basis?

On a day-to-day basis you’ll be collaborating with your colleagues in Science, Product, Engineering, and the Commercial group to define the problem space and market for your new product feature set. You’ll be identifying assumptions, testing them, and iterating quickly toward an MVP for your product area. 

What is the structure and culture of the team like?

Your initial team will consist of 2-3 Climate Scientists and Engineers, with strong support from UX Researchers, other Product Managers and our Commercial group. You will report to the Director of Product within the group of Product Managers that builds our Climate Intelligence capabilities. 

We are a distributed, remote-first organization. Our employees are predominantly from the UK, but we have colleagues from around Europe and a few in North America as well.

We have a strong culture of collaboration, empowerment, science, and inclusion. We favour autonomy and transparency over micro-management. You will instead see your colleagues and managers offering support, coaching, facilitation and deep care.

Benefits:
As a rapidly scaling company on a mission, we are committed to ensuring that we support our team in developing in line with their aspirations and talents as well as continuing to develop our culture in line with our values.

We are a remote-first company and are hiring into the UK or the USA. We are looking for a candidate who is comfortable working in a remote setting and with a diverse team distributed across multiple time zones. This job requires minimum travel for occasional regional or global team retreats only, using more sustainable transport methods (we’ll help with that).

• 25 days’ holiday a year (plus 8 UK public holidays or local equivalent)
• The company closes between December 24th and January 1st, which typically gives an extra 3 days off each year (on top of your 25 days entitlement)
• Remote first company culture with flexible working hours
• Maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave policies
• Every employee is given a plant of their choice
• £1000 a year learning budget towards personal and professional development
• £500 stipend to spend on your work from home setup (we’ll cover your laptop and peripherals such as a screen and keyboard - you will be able to choose between a Mac or PC)
• Paid sick leave for physical and mental health with access to Spill
• Virtual team and company activities such as pastry-making classes, mindfulness classes, coffee masterclasses and murder mysteries
• £1500 loan towards a bike through the Cycle to Work Scheme (available for UK employees)