Product Director

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PRODUCT DIRECTOR

We are proud to be the largest dating network in the world, with over 400 million users across 190 countries. Online dating has more than doubled in the last decade, and it is estimated that the global online dating market could be worth $12 billion next year. We continually innovate so that we can provide the best technology and user experience for people to meet, because we believe that happiness is better shared.  Our business is going through a period of growth and a unique opportunity has arisen in our Product team based in London as a Product Director.  We're looking for a leader that can mentor our Product Managers, bring out the best of their ability and a tech enthusiast to take our product suite to the next level.

Key Accountabilities:

- Build, mentor, and lead a world-class team of Product ManagersEstablish the product vision and strategy for your product area (Badoo / Bumble / Lumen)

- Develop exciting product roadmaps and build alignment across product teams, cross-functional partners including the Leadership and Executive team

- Innovate and implement ideas for product development and management practices

- Pitch creative ideas to senior stakeholders, manage their expectations and establish shared vision across the company.

- Build consensus on priorities leading to product execution

- Understand our groups strategic and competitive position, and deliver industry-leading products.

- Question user behaviour, and analyse data to find answers in order to share compelling narratives about what problems our products solve

- Identify new opportunities and be able to adapt to change whilst keeping up with current trends

- Define and analyse unique metrics that highlight the success of products and new features

- Global product management: prioritisation and execution across platforms, markets, languages and currencies

- Motivate and lead the team, clearly communicate priorities and generate buzz around new products and features.

Experience we are looking for:

- Extensive experience delivering mobile apps, Android, iOS and Mobile Web of a significant scale and complexity, shipping on a regular basis

- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

- Problem solver and forward thinking

- Strong knowledge of appropriate product performance metrics, and background in data-driven decision making

- Product management experience within an in-house development environment, being comfortable communicating with engineers

- Demonstrable interest in social discovery/dating industry

- Strong knowledge of A/B testing

- Experience working on multiple products concurrently desirable

- Ability to break large projects into manageable pieces, prioritising according to value

Our benefits:

- Our employees work hard and we believe it is important to provide an environment that supports their well-being and needs.

- Life at Badoo includes: Free food and beverages: catered meals from breakfast right through to dinner, fully stocked fridges and limitless snacks

- Hair and Nail salon services onsite

- Private medical insurance

- Regular company events

- Subsidised gym membership

- Supported training and development

- We double match pension contribution up to 6%

ABOUT BADOO:

There's nothing ordinary about working at Badoo. We're just as social as our product and don't hide behind our computers. Innovation is key to what we do and since we're a rapidly growing start-up, things move fast. We're a diverse, international bunch and are based in amazing offices in Soho, with perks to match. 

Badoo is the largest dating network in the world. With 400 million users across 190 countries and 450 employees worldwide, Badoo provides the best technology for people to meet, because happiness is better shared. 

Each day more than 400,000 people sign up for a Badoo experience; users send over 350 million messages and 10 million photos are added to the Badoo platform.

Badoo also operates a number of white label licences for various international brands. For more information, please visit badoo.com.

Badoo is an equal opportunities employer. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, veteran status, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law.

The strength of our workforce is made up of people from diverse backgrounds. All individuals here will be treated in a fair and equal manner based on the principles of professional merit. We commit to making any and all reasonable adjustments to your working conditions if you are disabled or impaired. It is important to remember that although some disabilities are apparent, many widely occurring disabilities, such as mental ill-health, epilepsy, diabetes and dyslexia are often not immediately evident. We are keen that applicants who have an ongoing disability make us aware of this, so we can make sure we can provide the most appropriate help and support

Our Office & Benefits:

- Private medical and dental insurance

- Critical illness & travel insurance

- Corporate gym membership

- Eyecare vouchers

- Gourmet meals each day

- Unlimited drinks and snacks

- Tastecard

- Contributory pension scheme

- Subsidised tube pass or bike

- In-house massages & haircuts

- Childcare vouchers