Headout is hiring a

Lead Product Manager, London

London, United Kingdom

🚀 Why Headout?

What we do is important

In an increasingly digital world, there is a desperate need to augment our human experience by getting us to interact with the real world around us and the people in it. At Headout, our mission is to be the easiest, fastest, and the most delightful way to head out to our next real-life experience. We do this by running a managed marketplace to the world’s most exceptional real-life experiences — from immersive tours to museums to live events and everything in between.

We’ve got scale, fast growth, and solid fundamentals

Headout has served tens of millions of guests from 196 countries on one of our experiences across 70+ cities in 9 languages. Today, we have sales of 100s of millions of $s a year and have grown 4x+ in ‘22. Contrary to the norm, we deliver this scale and growth while being profitable. We raised $42M in ‘22 and have a decade+ runway enabling us to think truly long term.

Now is the right time

While we have a fast-growing business, we are still very early in our journey with a large upside to capture and have a team that is small enough for you to have an indelible outsized impact on our journey. We are not too early, we are not too late.

Our culture

Every place has its own beat and we are no different. We are not the right place for everybody but we are the right place for a certain group of people. Read more about it here: https://bit.ly/HeadoutPlaybook

👩‍💻 The Role

As a Lead Product Manager at Headout, you'll take charge of building our product portfolio within one of our key pods: Acquisition, Discovery, Conversion, or Managed marketplace. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and external partners, you'll leverage your expertise to craft compelling strategies and develop innovative products that drive growth and enhance user experiences.

Your strategic leadership and collaborative approach will be essential in driving product innovation and achieving our goals at Headout. Depending on the pod you work with, your focus area will be as follows:

  • Acquisition: You will spearhead efforts to increase channel diversification and elevate the share of organic search within our acquisition strategy. By implementing innovative tactics and strategies, you will drive growth and expand our customer base.
  • Discovery: You will lead initiatives to architect and develop products that optimize the discovery experience for users. By leveraging user insights and data-driven approaches, you will enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
  • Conversion: Your role will involve maximizing user conversion rates and developing conversion levers to drive scale in new business areas such as cruises and airport transfers. Through experimentation and optimization, you will identify opportunities to enhance conversion rates and drive business growth.
  • Managed marketplace: You will be responsible for building products that enable best-in-class self-serve capabilities and create efficient systems for internal and external teams to manage their products on Headout's platform. By streamlining processes and enhancing productivity, you will empower teams to deliver exceptional results.

🤩 What makes this role special?

  • Ownership - You will own and lead development of Headout's customer base and experience by constantly gaining insights from the users and applying them to generate more value out of the product. 
  • Lead - You will mentor the pod product team and work with cross-functional teams to build products and processes that can help scale the productivity, increase accuracy, boost conversion and strengthen the customer experience.
  • Growth driver - You will monitor and measure launched products and feed insights back into the product development process to drive growth and improvements.

🌟 Our Dream Product Manager

  • Understand their target market deeply to produce high-quality products.
  • Synthesize the product requirements into actionable product features + Make tradeoff decisions based on technical and business insights and experimentation.
  • Takes ownership of the projects as per their mandate. Gain users' insights and apply them to generate more value from the product.
  • Writes a clear PRD that details the problem statement, solution & implementation details, and success metrics.
  • Mentor the pod team and ensure all team members involved are aware of the team strategy, initiatives, and priorities.

💝 What skills & experience do you need?

  • Possesses a minimum of 6 years of product management experience, particularly in the E-commerce sector.
  • Has 2 years of proven experience in both managing teams and overseeing product development.
  • Demonstrates a successful track record in building consumer-facing products at a significant scale.
  • Experience working in a metrics and experimentation-driven organizational environment.
  • Exhibits strong customer empathy, blending user research with data to craft a prioritized product roadmap.
  • Proficient in authoring PRDs and Use Case Documentation to guide and facilitate product development.

EEO statement

At Headout, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our partners, and the community at large. Headout provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability. During the interview process, if you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact the recruiter assigned to your application or email us at [email protected].

Privacy policy

Please note that once you apply for this job profile your personal data will be retained for a period of one (1) year. Headout shall process this data for recruitment purposes only. Once the relevant job profile is filled or once the time period of one (1) year from the date of the job application has passed, whichever is later, Headout shall either delete your data or inform you that it shall keep it in its database for future roles. In compliance with the relevant privacy laws, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. If you have any concerns or questions about the way Headout handle your data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer for more information.

Apply for this job

Please mention you found this job on AI Jobs. It helps us get more startups to hire on our site. Thanks and good luck!

Get hired quicker

Be the first to apply. Receive an email whenever similar jobs are posted.

Ace your job interview

Understand the required skills and qualifications, anticipate the questions you may be asked, and study well-prepared answers using our sample responses.

Lead Product Manager Q&A's
Report this job
Apply for this job