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Senior Product Manager

London, UK

full time

hybrid

Salary£70,000

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.