Product Manager - Platform

Product Manager - Platform 

About Cazoo: 

Our mission is to transform the car buying experience across the UK by providing better selection, flexibility, transparency, convenience and peace of mind. Our aim is to make getting your next car no different to ordering any other product online today, where consumers can simply and seamlessly purchase, finance or subscribe to a car entirely online for delivery or collection. 

Cazoo was founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Alex Chesterman OBE, has a highly experienced management team and is backed by some of the leading global technology investors. 

Job Summary 

As Product Manager of our Platform Engineering 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. 

Technology is at the core of our business, and the Platform Team’s mission is to help other engineering teams deliver code more quickly and safely into production to drive business growth. 

There are many mission-critical opportunities that fall into this team’s domain, from cutting-edge security best practices and architecture to the latest developments in CI/CD, Cloud engineering and observability. 

The Platform Team Product Manager will need to work closely with customers - principally engineers - and key stakeholders to quickly understand key opportunities and build a strategy and roadmap for this area, before rapidly executing discovery, turning this into reality and delivering systems that drive results. 

Working closely with Tech, you are ultimately responsible for making sure we’re building the right things for customers of your products. Your partners in Tech 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 autonomous empowered Product Teams. While there will be plenty of strong opinions across the company about what the right thing to build is, you and your team are responsible for rapidly evaluating these ideas using experimentation and data to determine what is the right thing to build for our customers and business.

Identify opportunities and deliver results through dual track Discovery/Delivery

You will... 

• Work with your users, 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 the entire product portfolio 
• Define KPIs to measure the success of your product 

• Validate ideas through rapid iteration, prototyping and testing techniques to determine what the right thing to build is for your customers – supported by data and evidence – as quickly and cheaply as possible 
•  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

• Manage relationships with any 3rd parties related to your product 

Product Management Practice 

You will... 

• Provide leadership to continuously improve product management practice at Cazoo 
• Proactively keep up to date with the 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
• Contribute towards hiring first-rate product managers
• Set the example of what great product management looks like. 

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 deep experience product managing technical products like APIs, data pipelines and services 
• with extensive experience developing multiple complex products through full life cycle 
• who has worked embedded with development teams to deliver amazing products with clearly measurable customer and business benefits 
• with excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills 
• 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

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We are an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, colour, religion, national origin, disability status or marital status.