Product Manager

Compensation: £60k – £70k • No equity

Location

Europe, fully remote

The company

At Nearcut and Book in Beautiful (one company, two brands), we exist to help our clients build and grow their businesses, giving barbers and beauty professionals time back to do what they love. We’re a close knit, autonomous team of self-starters who support each other to build amazing tech to empower our clients.

The role

We are looking for a proactive Product Manager to help us scale our capacity to solve meaningful client problems. You'll be joining our dynamic product team as one of two full-time PMs working across the entire product, supported by strategic input from our leadership team. You'll have lots of autonomy, responsibility for important product decisions, and collaboration from colleagues when you need it. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to shape product direction in a client-focused, data-driven environment and build things that really change people’s day-to-day lives.

What you'll be doing

You'll work closely with colleagues across product, design, marketing and development to ship features which delight beauty and barbering businesses and help them get the most value from our software:

• Leading structured discovery to understand what our clients actually need by combining Intercom feedback, PostHog data, client interviews, and competitor analysis into a clear point of view
• De-risking difficult problems by identifying and executing the cheapest way to get the information we need to have more certainty
• Making sure we build the right thing at the right time by identifying the highest-impact points of focus across our various product areas and articulating why, so we can prioritize with confidence
• Creating organized, well-reasoned specs that give design, development and AI tools the clarity and constraints to move quickly, with tradeoffs and risks made explicit rather than hidden
• Keeping things moving by maintaining momentum across multiple projects at once, holding scope tightly, and preferring a working, testable iterations over a perfect plan
• Using AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate your own work and inform product decisions, while recognizing which types of work still require human judgment
• Partnering directly with designers and developers to iterate solutions during development
• Measuring what we ship by defining success metrics upfront, tracking them in PostHog or across other tools, and proactively communicating your findings
• Creating efficient processes and documentation that help the entire team work better

Your experience

Essential

• You have at least 3 years of directly applicable PM experience with a strong portfolio of complex B2B or SaaS applications
• You're highly organized and self-managing, able to structure your own work and prioritize effectively
• You are comfortable in technical discussions with developers and familiar with some programming and query languages for the purposes of prototyping and research
• You'd rather ship and learn than search for perfect solutions, and you're energized by ambiguity and back yourself to figure things out as you go
• You have excellent instincts for finding the highest point of leverage in any given system or problem space
• You think in sustainable and scalable systems that accelerate decision-making and development, rather than defining one-off solutions
• You’re a whizz at analyzing data and separating the signal from the noise
• You have experience collaborating closely with design, marketing and development teams and iterating on solutions during development
• You excel at leading discovery work: carrying out user research, competitive analysis, and data analytics to inform product decisions and create actionable insights
• You’ve worked in a small company before (<100 people)

Nice-to-have

• Experience in booking/scheduling software or tools for service-based businesses
• Experience with Figma for design and prototyping, and Posthog for product analytics
• Familiarity with reading code, Ruby on Rails

Benefits of our working environment

• High autonomy and responsibility: We’re a small team with a big product and client base, so every individual has lots of independence and scope for impact.
• Remote-first: We are a remote-first company without an in-person office. We trust our employees to work flexibly and autonomously to efficiently meet business goals.
• Limited hierarchy: We’re not bothered about titles or seniority. Everyone is a member of the team and valued as an independent individual contributor. You’re supported and autonomous.
• Flexible working hours: Aside from regular team meetings and availability during the normal workday, we are happy for you to complete your work whenever you’re most productive.
• Close and supportive team: Although we work remotely, our team is close-knit and colleagues are always there to help one another.
• Continuous client feedback: Our clients are small business owners who are very grateful to have our support. We are privileged to work closely with them to continue to improve our product and their experience.

“Everyone is pulling in the same direction and supports each other. I've never worked for a company that gets so much positive feedback from the clients - we can really see the impact of our work. I also enjoy that fact that we work remotely and can be flexible.”

• Nearcut colleague for more than 3 years

“Working at Nearcut is a breath of fresh air! The business is full to the brim of great people who are motivated to improve themselves and the business on the whole, and the entire company is structured to allow individuals to thrive. I haven't looked back since joining!”

• Nearcut colleague for more than 1 year

What you’ll get

• A remote-first, autonomous working environment; one where you’re proactively making and communicating your own decisions; not being told what to do next
• The opportunity to significantly impact product direction
• Direct access to client feedback and data to measure your impact

Plus… the nitty gritty

• An annual salary of between £60,000 - £70,000
• 33 flexible holiday days per year, inclusive of public holidays in your country. Since our remote-first team is based all over the world, you get full flexibility to choose which days you take off.
• A Macbook Pro

We’re a small team and we’re passionate about being a great company to work with and work for.

Please answer the following key questions in order to apply! The deadline is Sunday August 9th at 11pm GMT. https://ejualuifv94.typeform.com/productmanager