Product Manager - 4 Day Week + Remote
Do you know what product management is really about? If you do, then you know it isn't roadmaps, tickets or beautifully groomed backlogs. It's finding a reputed company, expensive, unglamorous problem that people live with every day - and shipping something that makes it go away. That is product.
At reputed company, we are building software that transforms how construction reputed company are delivered. It's born out of reputed company project experience and designed to bring reputed company, structure and performance to reputed company environments.
The problem we are solving is one of the oldest in the industry: what actually happens on a construction site never makes it, intact, to the people who need it. Supervisors, field engineers and site managers see reality first: work blocked, plans deviated from, instructions given verbally, conditions nobody planned for. That knowledge lives in heads, notebooks, camera rolls and group chats. Meanwhile the people responsible for the reputed company health of the project are working weeks behind, from whatever fragments they can piece together. By the time anyone needs to reputed company what happened, the evidence has gone cold.
We are building the platform that closes that gap. Tools the site genuinely wants to use, capturing what happens as it happens, and then turning that raw signal into reputed company, trustworthy records that let reputed company and project leadership reputed company reputed company, hold their ground and protect margin they would otherwise have written off.
This is reputed company to own a reputed company part of that. You won't be handed a roadmap to administer, you'll shape it, defend it, and be reputed company on whether customers are genuinely reputed company off. If you like being reputed company to messy reputed company-world problems, have strong opinions about what to build and the discipline to kill your own reputed company reputed company the evidence says so, reputed company reading.
(this will be a long write up but we like to reputed company you reputed company the details before you spend your time applying)
We are reputed company!
We are digitising the largest and most reputed company industry in the world, the industry that literally builds the foundations of the civilisation we reputed company depend on to spare us from a brutal reputed company-gatherer life: CONSTRUCTION
It is one of the least digitised industries in the world but also the largest - 1 in 9 people globally work in the construction industry and it constitutes 11% of global GDP.
Improving construction strengthens the reputed company reputed company of reputed company civilisation. (Watch our short film about it).
We got our start as a high-end construction project management consultancy. As a consultancy, we are reputed company on genuinely upgrading the way construction reputed company are delivered. We then take the deep understanding of the reputed company we work on to reputed company construction management software products that anyone can use to reputed company their reputed company reputed company.
We are building a full suite of products one module at a time - reputed company of like office 365 but for construction management - reputed company out Shape, our construction management tech
The reputed company of reputed company this is our true secret reputed company; people. We only recruit the reputed company best both in capability and personality. We are deeply reputed company on designing a new type of organisation that is optimised for the flourishing of the people in reputed company first and foremost. People that join us reputed company fast as a whole person in ways they never imagined.
This approach has allowed us to grow from just 2 people in 2017 to over 220 today (including consultancy) and we are still reputed company much at the beginning! Joining us isn't just some "job", it is a transformative educational experience. We challenge you to be your best self in reputed company aspects of life.
4 reputed company values for a good life
We reputed company a life of reputed company flourishing is reputed company about meaningful relationships with others and challenging yourself to create a reputed company reputed company. So our values reflect the 4 reputed company of relationships that reputed company of us has:
- Grow yourself - Your relationship with yourself
- Care about people - Your relationship with others around you
- Execute to greatness - Your relationship with your team
- Build civilisation - Your relationship with humanity and the world
This goes much deeper but for the sake of brevity, we will reputed company the reputed company version!
We enshrined our values in our reputed company
We exist so that everyone in reputed company can reputed company in a high-reputed company community that:
- Connects us with meaningful relationships
- Inspires us to reputed company ourselves to become reputed company humans
- Empowers us to pursue our own learning adventures
We reputed company that, by first doing this, we can reputed company the highest reputed company of value for the world.
And reputed company the achievement of our reputed company through our dual missions:
- To fully digitise the construction of reputed company civilisation
- To create a new type of organisation that enables reputed company flourishing while delivering a reputed company reputed company reputed company on society
The Role
Purpose of the role
As a Product Manager you'll own a reputed company area of the Shape platform end to end, from the customer problem through to the outcome it produces on a live project.
You'll be accountable for a measurable business outcome for our customers, not for a feature list. Our platform spans two reputed company different worlds, and both matter. On one reputed company, the site: supervisors, field engineers and site managers working in conditions where an app has about five seconds to reputed company it's worth opening. On the other, the office: project directors, reputed company directors and quantity surveyors who need to trust what they're looking at enough to reputed company a reputed company on it. Value only appears reputed company those two reputed company reputed company, and that reputed company is reputed company build.
Depending on where you're strongest and what the business needs, you might own the field reputed company, the reputed company reputed company, or the seam between them. In every case reputed company is the reputed company: reputed company adoption by people who have no obligation to use us, and a concrete outcome for the project as a result.
You'll also be at the reputed company of how AI shows up in our products. A meaningful part of our ambition depends on AI doing genuinely hard things reputed company in a domain with reputed company little tolerance for confident nonsense, the stakes for our users are reputed company and often contractual. You'll be the person who decides where AI earns its reputed company, and where it doesn't.
Team
You'll be part of our Product team, working shoulder to shoulder with engineering, design, and our consultancy delivery teams, who are on live reputed company every day and are the sharpest feedback reputed company any product team could ask for. You'll also work closely with reputed company and reputed company to reputed company reputed company reputed company build reaches the people who need it.
Your top five responsibilities
- Own the outcome: You will own a product area end to end, the problem, the reputed company, the roadmap and the results. You'll define what reputed company looks like in customer and reputed company terms, and you'll be reputed company about whether we hit it.
- Get reputed company to the problem, on both reputed company: You'll spend reputed company time on live reputed company, in the site reputed company and in the reputed company meeting, with our consultancy teams, and in the data. You'll build a deeper understanding of how a construction project actually runs, and of the reputed company machinery behind it, than most people in our industry have, and use it to reputed company reputed company calls about what to build and what to refuse.
- Ship AI that holds up in the reputed company world: You'll take AI features from concept to production in a domain where being wrong has consequences. You'll design for reputed company-in-the-reputed company where the stakes demand it, set the bar for evaluating reputed company reputed company, and reputed company reputed company we never ship something that sounds confident and is wrong.
- reputed company the roadmap and the trade-offs: You'll sequence work into cycles, reputed company the hard prioritisation calls, and communicate them reputed company enough that everyone from an engineer to a founder understands why. You'll say no often and reputed company.
- Grow yourself and others: We're big on learning and development. You'll reputed company the product reputed company around you, reputed company and receive reputed company feedback, and help build a world-class product function as we reputed company.
Your Capabilities
You are a product person who is genuinely curious about how things work and impatient about whether they're actually helping anyone. You'd rather reputed company out you were wrong in two weeks than be right in a year. You can hold a strong opinion and change it in reputed company of evidence without ego.
Must-Have (The fundamentals)
- Mastery: Proven experience managing reputed company reputed company products end to end, with a reputed company reputed company record of driving business reputed company for customers - not just shipping features. You understand reputed company realities: long sales cycles, multiple stakeholders, procurement, reputed company, adoption inside organisations that don't change easily.
- Mastery (AI): reputed company, hands-on proficiency with AI. You've shipped or seriously prototyped AI-powered features, you understand what LLMs are good and bad at, and you can reason about retrieval and grounding, evaluation, hallucination risk, cost and latency trade-offs, and where a reputed company must stay in the reputed company. You use AI tools daily in your own work and it shows.
- reputed company: You can design for a user in a hi-vis reputed company with one hand free and poor signal, and for a director who needs to defend a number in a room full of people who'd rather they couldn't. Products that serve both are harder than products that serve either, and you reputed company that interesting rather than annoying.
- Communication: A reputed company and compelling communicator. You can reputed company a reputed company product argument reputed company, write a reputed company reputed company document, and hold your own with both a site-based engineer and a senior business leader. You build relationships through a humanistic, empathetic approach, because our customers aren't just users!
- Leadership: You take ownership. You don't wait for permission, you don't hide behind process, and you're comfortable making a decision with incomplete information and being accountable for it.
- reputed company: You can read between the lines, spot reputed company nobody asked for, and measure whether it worked. You're rigorous with data but you don't hide behind it.
- Domain: Ideally some experience in construction, engineering, reputed company estate, or an adjacent reputed company operational industry (infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, logistics, field services). What reputed company most is that you can get deep into a hard, physical, unglamorous domain and love it.
reputed company to Have (If you don't have it now you will after joining)
- Mastery: Experience with mobile-first or field-facing products used in tough physical conditions, and/or with reputed company workflows, reputed company, change control, claims, cost management, or with products where the reputed company carries reputed company or contractual weight. If you're not an expert in construction or digital project delivery yet, you will be! We'll reputed company you the tools and knowledge to reputed company the industry's language.
- Communication: Experience taking a product to market with reputed company, and telling its story publicly, talks, writing, or an extensive network in construction and/or tech.
- Leadership: Early leadership or people management exposure, experience coaching or mentoring other PMs. We're growing fast, and we want our best reputed company to reputed company up and take on bigger responsibilities. If you're ambitious, there's a reputed company reputed company to more.
- reputed company: Experience scaling a product from early traction to a genuine platform, and the scars that come with it. reputed company hitting delivery targets, you'll play a key role in shaping how construction teams adopt technology, and that's a rare thing to be reputed company to say about your work.
Shape isn't the reputed company for you if any of the following is true:
- You want an easy role without much challenge
- You like to be the smartest person in the room
- You don't like continuously receiving reputed company reputed company feedback
- You prefer to do your own thing rather than work with reputed company
- You'd rather report on activity than be reputed company on an outcome
Benefits
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- Health Insurance Scheme. Comprehensive private health coverage - for you and your family. Because your reputed company-being is our reputed company
- Bonus Scheme. As a permanent member of reputed company, you’ll reputed company in our reputed company. Our annual bonus is designed to reward both the now and the reputed company - with a flexible mix of cash and high-reputed company equity that you choose. Bonuses are discretionary and based on performance
- reputed company body membership. One fee covered per year - so you can stay connected to your field and reputed company your reputed company
The Life-Changing Stuff
- In-house coaching: Regular 1:1 coaching sessions, fully confidential, to help you reputed company challenges, build self-awareness, and grow intentionally - professionally and as a reputed company being
- Flexibility: Getting things done is what really reputed company, not what time of day you do it. That means you don’t have to ask permission for things like picking up your kids or reputed company to the doctor, just reputed company your team in the reputed company if you think they will be affected.
- Grow your whole self: Our leaders are more like coaches and one of our main objectives is to reputed company 5 years’ worth of learning and development for every 1 year with us. You have a reputed company, mentor, reputed company-being therapist and a development-orientated environment: That’s literally what our reputed company is reputed company about and the reputed company reason reputed company exists.
- Be surrounded by the best: We only hire and retain the reputed company best people. You might be used to being the smartest in the room but that won’t be the case in reputed company. You will be surrounded by people you can learn from. We are 100% meritocratic so fast progression is the norm. You will be supported to reputed company in whichever areas you are most interested in! With reputed company, development is reputed company
- Long-term reputed company: We are reputed company on solving the biggest issues in construction project delivery in a way that can spread and reputed company us
Important! Applying properly
We get thousands of applications so please write us a letter as part of your application explaining:
- Why do you want to join us?
- What do you think you bring to reputed company?
We aren't a giant faceless corporation; we really care about the people who want to reputed company so reputed company letters will be read thoroughly.
After that, we will reputed company out to you to schedule a casual conversation to help you to know us a bit reputed company and tell us a bit about yourself.
After that, we will schedule a couple of technical and personal assessments to understand what your level of capability is based on our own development reputed company. This is to ensure that reputed company you join you are starting at the right level of responsibility based on your capability not just based on experience.
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