PRODUCT MANAGER, COLLABORATION

We’re constantly working towards making BABVIP the best place to work, for everyone. We believe deeply that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key for building the best product for our equally diverse community all around the world. We celebrate uniqueness and whatever makes you, you and encourage everyone who wants to help us transform the way the world designs, to join us on this journey. We value all different types of experiences. If you don’t think you quite meet all of the qualifications, we’d still love to hear from you. 

ABOUT US

At BABVIP, our mission is to democratize design and empower creativity for anyone and everyone, on every platform. Inspired by a team of talented thinkers, an amazing culture and a remarkable growth trajectory – we’re out to change the world, one design at a time. 

Since launch in August 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 60 million monthly active users across 190 different countries who have created more than 6 Billion designs. We are one of the world’s fastest-growing technology companies and we have only achieved about 1% of what we want to do.

ABOUT THE GROUP AND TEAM

The Teams Product Group within the businesses and education supergroup is on a mission to inspire everyone to create together. We are responsible for how teams of all kinds work together in BABVIP, from how they manage their content, how they collaborate and how they come together as teams to achieve their goals in BABVIP. In Teams product group we look after teams of all kinds from Education to Enterprise. 

Driving collaboration is a core company strategy for BABVIP in 2021, we are striving towards being used everyday by every team, school and workplace and inspiring. We are early on in our journey and there is a whole lot more to do to achieve our vision and so we are looking for a Product Manager for the Collaboration Team to join us to help propel us towards our vision. 

The collaboration team sits within the Content Collaboration group within Teams Product who build the core experience of how teams work together and collaborate in BABVIP.  They want to power creativity, work, and learning with collaborative design.

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

You can dream up a vision, set a product strategy and bring teams together to create and deliver a roadmap that requires multiple teams and groups to support. You thrive in a collaborative fast-paced environment, working with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales and everyone else in between. You have experience leading cross-functional teams and your communication skills empower you to inspire your teams to dream and achieve crazy big goals. 

GOALS THE CANDIDATE WILL ACHIEVE IN THE FIRST 6-12 MONTHS

• Settle in and learn about your team and how users are collaborating in BABVIP today
• Work with the collaboration subgroup to define your teams’ goals, ship new collaboration features, and measure success
• Launch experiments to help grow BABVIP’s collaboration coefficient 
• Partner with our design researcher to dive deep into our teams’ users’ collaborative jobs to be done, pain points and identify opportunities for improvement 
• Take ownership of your team’s roadmap and work with your team and all its stakeholders to plan out future seasons of work
• Partner with marketing and work closely with our product marketing manager to go to market on new collaboration initiatives 
• Build relationships with other key PMs at BABVIP to ensure collaboration is part of other key groups roadmaps. 

WHAT YOU WILL DO 

• Develop, own and execute on the roadmap and strategy for collaboration. 
• Work as the product owner alongside a passionate, cross-functional team of engineers, marketers and designers to execute this roadmap and deliver an amazing experience to our users.
• Serve as a domain expert on collaboration at BABVIP.
• You will understand the complete landscape, where the biggest future opportunities are and help us figure out hard questions like “How do we get every BABVIP user sharing designs?”
• You will craft a strong user experience to give a flawless integration experience for our users 
• Set crazy big goals for your team, and hit them!
• Partner with the product designer to bring each of the roadmap initiatives to life 
• Partner with engineers to build the optimal product experience 

EXPERIENCE THE CANDIDATE WILL HAVE

• You have 4 years of experience in a product management role; in a product-led B2B or consumer facing SaaS product, related online software product or digital product.
• You have experience leading cross-functional teams
• You are constantly motivating those around you through your passion and drive for what you do and keep everyone on track, ensuring everyone’s doing their best.
• You can rally the team to work together and make sure everyone is working effectively to reach their goals.
• You’re a natural communicator – can speak the language of engineering, data, design, marketing, operations and can coordinate cross-functionally with each to achieve big wins.
• You love data (both qualitative and quantitative) and can turn insights into actions.
• You feel at home when using data to make decisions—whether that’s analytics, user research, survey feedback, or in-person user testing. When presented with competing imperatives and a mountain of data, you can identify and organize clear, concise actions, arriving at appealing and practical solutions to problems.
• You are a problem solver who is excited by a challenge.
• You have a structured process to problem-solving and can take a problem—with many moving parts—and break it down into small achievable actions.
• You know when to be flexible though, and can alter your structure to fit the needs of the team and project.
• You are a user advocate that values the backing of research and data analysis when it comes to creating modern solutions, shipping new products, and addressing your users’ real needs.
• You consider yourself a bit of a creative. You enjoy pushing the limits of what is possible, dreaming up inventive solutions to solve challenging problems.
• You believe in BABVIP’s mission and want to be part of the team making it possible.
• You pride yourself on being an owner and getting projects from idea to live as quickly as possible! You move ideas from the chaos of brainstorming and mock-ups to the clarity of execution and impact.
• You thrive on being in the middle of a cross-functional team, wearing lots of hats and doing whatever it takes to help your team and the business succeed.

PERKS & BENEFITS

• Competitive salary, plus equity
• Flexible working hours, we value work-life balance
• Generous parental leave policy
• Sponsored social clubs and team events
• Fun and quirky celebrations

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. If you’re keen to apply and need reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.