Product Manager - Data

Product Manager - Data

As a member of our Cazoo Data product team, you will be central to building and growing your product area and outcomes by leading a team through discovery – establishing what the right thing to build is – to implementation and beyond.

As a Product Manager you will own one or more products and be responsible for leading the full life-cycle of them, owning the vision, strategy and roadmap. You’ll take your product from ideation and discovery through design, delivery, preparation for launch, measuring of success, and iterations.

Working closely with your engineering team, you are ultimately responsible for making sure we’re building the right things for customers of your products. Your partners in engineering are responsible for making sure we build these things in the right way, but both of you care deeply about both things - it’s one team!

At Cazoo we believe in empowerment and growth, you’ll have the opportunity to develop yourself in an exciting and challenging environment. This role is ideal for someone with a couple of years product experience looking to refine their skills in a rapidly growing and innovative organisation. You’ll be supported not only by a strong product function, but an equally strong data team. You’ll need to be someone that can get upto speed and become autonomous quickly, don’t expect to be dictated to or told what to do!

About Cazoo Data

The mission of the Cazoo Data team is to continually capture, measure & optimise. Data is integral to Cazoo, with "being data driven" as one of our core values. The Data team operates across the entire business, providing the data needed to make informed decisions, as well as owning a range of data driven products that are key to everything that we do at Cazoo:

• Vehicle Data - capturing and serving all known data about a vehicle; from it's specs to it's MOT history.
• Trading - covering all aspects of trading vehicles, including purchasing from multiple sources at the right prices to pricing at the right prices to maximise profitability while remaining competitive in the market.
• Valuations - determining the value of vehicles, based on the vehicle details and sales channels.
  
  

All of these are challenging areas in an industry that has not traditionally had the greatest coverage of data, the Cazoo Data team is utilising data and technology to innovate in this space.

Finding and managing opportunities

You will...

• Work with your customers, team and stakeholders to identify problems to solve or opportunities for growth
• Rapidly build knowledge of your domain and assess opportunities
• Be inspired by new technology, competitors/like-minded businesses, future thinking, and more to suggest opportunities to improve Cazoo
• Take responsibility for forming hypotheses and measures, and ensuring there is a backlog of epics with agreed priority
• Proactively engage with stakeholders to define the strategy and direction for your Products.
• Formulate the vision, strategy and roadmap for your product area, ensuring alignment of strategic priorities and roadmap across entire product portfolio
• Define KPIs to measure the success of your product
• Manage relationships with any 3rd parties related to your product

Product Discovery

You will...

• Lead stakeholder sessions to determine key customer outcomes
• Lead product discovery, collaborating with UX, User Research, Engineering and key business SMEs…
• ....use rapid experimentation via a toolbox of techniques (e.g., user testing, concierge tests, prototypes, fake doors, wizard-of-oz, demand tests, A/B or MVT, etc.)...
• ...to determine what the right thing to build is for your customers – supported by data and evidence – as quickly and cheaply as possible
• Work with the business, technical and product teams to understand the needs of your customers
• Champion solutions that work for our customers and the business
• Define use cases and user journeys

Delivery

You will...

• Work in close partnership with your team’s Technical lead
• Lead the product design and builds to ensure we deliver in an efficient, cost effective manner
• Prioritise and set the team direction, creating a sense of urgency and momentum
• Write user stories and acceptance criteria
• Manage features through development, ensuring stakeholders are kept up to date
• Break down your deliverables into smaller value chunks and iterate through delivery, releasing value early and often
• Work closely with Tech lead and team to plan sprints, releases and coordinate across dependent products
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to launch features (both externally and internally)
• Monitor and measure the success of the feature/product
• Lead decision on persist, iterate, or drop

Product Management Practice

You will...

• Proactively keep up to date with latest developments in product management thinking, process and techniques
• Champion Build Measure Learn, creating a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the product management discipline, especially in discovery and delivery methodologies

We are looking for a Product Manager...

• with proven experience in working out what the right things to build are (as opposed to being told what to build by someone else!)
• dual track (discovery/delivery) experience; at Cazoo we’re big fans of Marty Cagan
• with experience developing complex products through full life cycle
• who has worked with development teams to deliver amazing products with clearly measurable customer and business benefits
• with great stakeholder management and facilitation skills
• with an excellent sense of empathy for end-users
• who is comfortable with embracing ambiguity 
• with the ability to compromise in the right way
• with a passion for product design and the experience to back up their views
• with demonstrable ability to rapidly gain in-depth knowledge of your product’s domain
• who loves collaboration and has experience in leading varied groups to swift decisions