About Bark
Bark is revolutionising the way people find professionals in over 1,000 unique categories. As the UK's largest and fastest-growing services marketplace, we're on a mission to make finding the right professional quick and easy. With a presence in eleven countries and plans for further expansion, joining us at this genuinely exciting time will be a journey like no other.
Our cutting-edge technology ensures that you can always find the best professional for any job. With a talented team of over 270 dedicated individuals, we're committed to providing exceptional service and ensuring that our customers are satisfied every step of the way.
This is an exciting time to join our scaling business, we recently placed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, and previously were 64th in the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing private tech companies in 2023.
As a profitable scale-up, Bark is in a unique position to offer the best of both worlds; the excitement and agility of a start-up combined with the financial security and backing of a renowned private equity firm, EMK Capital. You'll have ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation without any of the worry.
About the role
We are looking for a gifted Product Manager to join our team and take ownership of our Seller App across both Android and iOS. This is a critical part of our proposition, generating significant engagement and revenue. In fact, our App is the preferred platform for our most engaged Sellers to respond to business opportunities.
You will define and deliver a roadmap that helps Sellers get a better return on their investment on Bark, by deeply understanding our users and their challenges, clearly articulating Bark’s value proposition (especially that of the App vs. our web experience) and by building out new experiences and optimising the existing core flows.
You’ll act as Product Owner inside a cross-functional squad alongside Design, Engineering and Analytics to deliver these changes, whilst collaborating with our Marketing and Trading teams to make sure we grow in a smart and sustainable way.
You’ll fit right in if you’re data-driven, obsessed with understanding and solving users’ problems and have a real bias to action. We’d love to see someone with a track record of having done this on a native App before, and with experience building products for small businesses.
We’re already profitable and incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved so far, but we know that most of our work is ahead of us. We have huge aspirations, and our growth plans are product-led, so it’s a great time to join and contribute to revolutionising how people buy and sell services online, in the way that Amazon did for physical products.
Responsibilities
* Obsess over our Sellers, and inspire others to do the same. Use qual and quant inputs to understand them better than anyone.
* Set the vision and strategy for our Seller App, whilst defining and driving success.
* Create, maintain and evangelise your roadmap and backlog.
* Perform all aspects of the Product Owner role as part of our agile Seller App squad.
* Deliver business impact through diligent discovery, clear scoping, robust prioritisation and meaningful contributions to effective, outcome-centric delivery.
* Collaborate and communicate progress and prioritisation effectively to stakeholders at all levels around the business.
* Take ownership of the impact of your squad - from problem to solution, launch and beyond.
Required skills and experience
* Proven track record as a Product Manager in a fast-paced and successful online business (App experience/Marketplace experience/small business products all pluses).
* Experience working with Developers, Product Designers and Analysts to deliver outcomes that matter.
* Excellent communicator - you’re able to clearly present your work, explain your thinking and discuss decisions confidently at all levels.
* Expert in using both qual and quant data points to form user understanding, conclusions, and guide decision making.
* Well-versed in lean approaches and agile methodologies to maximise impact and minimise waste.
* A self-starter that is comfortable working autonomously, whilst always remembering collaboration is key to success.
* Strong commercial and technical understanding, allowing you to clearly articulate concepts to commercial and non-technical audiences as well as engineering.
* Driven, ambitious and keen to grow with the company.
Perks and Benefits
* Share options in a rapidly growing company whose founders have a proven track record and are Private Equity backed.
* Flexible working policy with a central office in London.
* Private health insurance run by Bupa.
* Personal annual L&D Budgets with £1,000 to spend on your development.
* Enhanced Gympass membership for all employees with access to mental health courses and fitness classes.
* Fully stocked kitchen and monthly lunches.
* Financial advisor.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Regular wellness weeks with industry leading talks through to massages in the office.
* Being at the forefront of an industry with new and exciting problems to solve.
Diversity Statement
At Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouting about.
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