Description

As a Senior Product Manager at Zinc, you’ll shape the future of our product by owning the big, strategic problems and guiding your team toward bold, impactful solutions. 🌍

You’ll be the link between real customer insights and future-facing technology, working hands-on with our engineers, designers, and leadership team to build products that matter. If you love unpicking problems, have top-tier product sense, and want to influence a company’s trajectory at a pivotal stage, we would love to have you onboard. 🚀

What About This Role? 💼

⚡️ A culture that prioritises collaboration, ownership, innovation, and impact.

⚡️ Opportunities to work on bleeding-edge technology like AI and LLMs.

⚡️ Direct collaboration with our CEO and senior leadership.

⚡️ A chance to make a tangible mark on a fast-scaling, Series A company.

⚡️ An opportunity to take on a more strategic role that will propel your career as a Product Manager.

Key Responsibilities

✅ Product Managers at Zinc:

Are strategic
Sole problem owners
Have direct customer relationships 🫂
Own the Objective roadmap. 🗺️
Empowered to access all data
Explore bleeding edge technology: LLM's.
Hero their team first, we value shining the lime light on designers and developers

❌ Product Managers at Zinc don't:

Own delivery
Write user stories 📚
Write super detailed, long PRD's
Work to business driven deadlines

🚀 We have super empowered engineers who write tickets and designers that own the solution, which gives you the space to hone the problem & strategy. 🚀

Requirements

You Have 🛠️

Product Sense 🧠
Seasoned product leadership: 3-5 years in Product Management, in B2B SaaS environments.

Product Strategy
To guide Zinc’s long-term vision, prioritising initiatives that support sustainable growth beyond short-term wins.

Data Analysis 📈
To assess and validate objectives with measurable outcomes, ensuring the product’s success is data-driven.

Interviewing Skills
To effectively gather valuable customer insights and translate them into actionable product direction.

You Are 🧩

Pragmatic
To balance ambition with feasibility, delivering impactful solutions within available resources and timelines.

Empathetic 👯‍♂️
To understand and advocate for customer and team needs, ensuring the product addresses real pain points.

Collaborative
To work cross-functionally with engineers and designers to shape and deliver impactful, problem-focused solutions together.

Communicative
To facilitate collaboration, pitch ideas clearly, and maintain alignment across teams and with stakeholders.

Benefits

What we offer 🍉

Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring

24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
£1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
Early finish Fridays (16:00)
Yearly company retreat
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
Celebrated Zinc anniversaries

About Zinc

Who we are ⚡

Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.

📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/mission

We're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩), Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.

🪴We recently redefined our company values:

🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.

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