Head of Product - Native Apps

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Job description

At Totaljobs Group, we help everyone get the job that best fits their life. Whether it is the next step in their career, or a job to pay the bills - we exist to match lifestyles with livelihoods.
We play our part by giving people everything they need to find the right job for them in that moment; making jobs work for more people, whatever they do, and however they choose to do it.
The Native Apps Domain focuses on native mobile applications as a channel for bringing jobs in front of candidates. We aim at transforming the jobseekers' experience, enabling many millions of people around the globe to take the next step in their career having Stepstone as a trusted companion who understands their needs and brings them the best job opportunities, even in areas they never thought of.
We are looking for a Head of Product who will lead the product function in this area. This is an established an domain at Stepstone, with a platform powering more than 40 brands and an important channel for reaching candidates.
We are looking for a product leader able to act as a thought leaders and vision leader as well as aligning and motivating teams on a journey to take our current product to the next leve.
You will be responsible for connecting consumer insights with Stepstone's product strategy and capabilities in this area. Deep understanding and empathy with the consumer will be paramount, but so will be data and ability to leverage specific features of the mobile apps channel.
Challenging the status quo requires operating in dynamic environment tuned to maximise the pace of learning. As such, you will be helping teams to find the best way to approach opportunities, experiment quick and scale fast. Working in collaboration with the Domain Engineering Manager, your enthusiasm will be fuelling an outcome driven culture, empowering teams to deliver outstanding results through cascading OKRs.
An advocate for the Native Apps, your will be at the forefront of inspiring teams and celebrating successes.
Finally, you will be as passionate about building high performance team as you are about changing the job board world.
What will this role look like on a day-to-day basis?
Owns the product vision for Stepstone's Native Apps domain.
Leads a team of 3-4 Product Managers who will be working in this domain. Hires and top talent, coaches high performance teams.
Owns the discovery of strategic opportunities. Enables and empowers Product Teams to own product discovery and delivery.
Understands the overall product strategy of the company, connects it to the Native Apps domain goals and creates alignment with relevant stakeholders. Comprehensive, in depth understanding of value creation in the overall Stepstone. Ensures that value creation mechanisms are understood across the domain at the appropriate level.
Works with the Domain Engineering Manager to support the teams to deliver using Agile at scale techniques where needed ensuring teams are self-organising to deliver outcomes, collaborating effectively and promoting team and Engineering health throughout the domain.
Enthusiastically communicates achievements of the domain and acts as an evangelist for Stepstone's native applications.
Some skills you might have:
We know looking for a new job can be scary, and sometimes the list of skills you are asked for can seem exhaustive. Below are a few of the skills we look for, but please do not be put off applying if you do not have every single one of them!

• 5+ years of experience leading product development in fast paced environments - experience in start-ups or intrapreneurial environments is a plus.
• Track-record of having taken a product of reasonable complexity from idea to launch and scaling. Experience building a product vision connected to business outcomes, fluency in product strategy discussions, ability to develop a system level understanding of business and product ecosystems.
• 3+ years as a people manager and at least 1-2 reports. Proven experience hiring and developing talent and building strong product teams.
• 3+ years of experience working closely with user research and UX teams to understand users in a B2C environment and formulate core hypothesis
• Good analytical skills, ability to work effectively with analysts and data scientists.
• Familiarity with native mobile applications is a plus. Ability to rapidly understand this space.
• Great communicator at all levels (including c suite)
• Able to work with architects, Engineering Director and Domain Engineering Manager to create a 2-3 year vision for the platform.

Benefits and Rewards - How we recognise ouremployees hard work and talent:

• Holiday - We feel work-life balance is important, so we offer every single one of our employees 29 days holiday a year, plus public holidays. Everyone also has the option to buy or sell up to three days each year in our Holiday Flex scheme.
• Family Leave - At TJG we understand that laying the foundations for a smooth start to family leave will also make for an easier transition back to the workplace and subject to qualifying criteria, the benefits under the Company Family schemes are more generous than required under current legislation.
• Pension Scheme - To help our people plan for their future we offer a competitive pension scheme.
• Eye Tests - Every employee receives a voucher which entitles them for a free eye test every year.
• Long Service - To recognise long- service and commitment to Totaljobs Group we celebrate our employees' loyalty by giving them additional time off and/ or vouchers after certain milestones.
• Medical Insurance - All employees are eligible to apply for private medical insurance cover which also includes a digital GP service.
• Charity- Each Totaljobs Group employee receives x2 additional days off every year to volunteer to charitable causes. We also give our employees the chance to 'give as they earn' meaning they can donate tax-free to a registered charity, and Totaljobs Group will match their contribution up to a value of £10 per month.

For more information about Totaljobs Group benefits please look at the Totaljobs Group career site.
Totaljobs Group are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
When you apply for a role with us you will be asked to complete an equal opportunities questionnaire. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reach out to one of the team.