Technical Product Manager | Deep Tech SaaS Start-up | London/Hybrid

Harmonic is thrilled to partner with a market-leading Deep Tech start-up in their search for a dynamic Technical Product Manager to spearhead new developments in the product team and drive the company's growth during an exciting period of expansion.

The Client

Our client is on a mission to maximise the economic and social value that software engineering organisations can deliver. Their vision is to become the global reference for optimising the performance of software engineers. They empower businesses to manage software development more efficiently through their cutting-edge analytics platform.

This platform provides valuable insights into coding efforts, enabling management to assess daily, project, sprint, or task-based investments for developers, teams, or vendors-regardless of language, platform, or location.

They take pride in being a global industry benchmark for software development, supporting clients

ranging from large corporations with over 1,000 developers to small startups in various industries,

including financial services, health technology, retail, advanced engineering, and technology.

The Role

You will lead the data onboarding product and empower software development organisations to reach their peak performance. In this influential position, you will set a clear strategic direction, shape the product vision in alignment with business objectives, collaborate with stakeholders, inspire and guide cross-functional teams towards common goals, foster innovation, make a lasting impact, and redefine the future of software development performance optimisation. This role, reporting to the Head of Product, will be one of the three key figures in the Product team and involve close collaboration with other Product Managers, Customer-Facing Teams, Engineering, and the User Experience team.

Responsibilities

• Owning, planning and communicating new product features, roadmaps, product backlog and success metrics for data onboarding, processing and management of our products. Define the strategy and the vision for a faster, scalable, more reliable and low-touch data acquisition strategy that is enabling product expansion. Understand markets, competition and user requirements in depth to identify market opportunities, new feature requirements, and build business cases.
• Empathising with users (e.g. DevOps, System Administrator, Team Leads), conducting user research, and translating user insights into actionable product improvements as part of requirement collection initiatives.
• Identifying problems, analyse root causes, and develop creative solutions to drive commercial success of the product and feature delivery: increase revenue, reduce sales cycles and reduce manual work owned by the client facing teams Expanding our product offering by identifying, analysing and planning technology and language support needs to access new market areas.
• Being goal-oriented, focusing on outcomes: owning data onboarding, time to value, data health and P&L.
• Managing Stakeholders; collaborating with other product lines, senior management, customer facing teams, engineering and user experience teams, negotiating priorities, and providing clear direction. Working with Sales, Customer Success & Marketing to drive forward the feature launch and grow its impact on company revenue.
• Gathering, analysing and using data, weighting various options and metrics, considering risks, using data to drive product decisions and making choices that drive product success.
• Embracing new technologies, market shifts, and emerging trends, adjusting product strategies and plans accordingly.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager within a scaling SaaS organisation, leading end to end product delivery of small to medium and complex features, involving multiple teams and stakeholders, driving product strategy forward by building roadmaps.
• Proven technical B2B product development experience, leading data engineering or highly technical ML projects/products, worked on scalable applications, visualisation and clustering, making products commercially successful as well as delivering the desired impact.
• Background and experience in Software Engineering, and a strong understanding of software development best practices, SDLC, users and decision makers.
• Strong sense of accountability, ownership and ability to work collaboratively in a result-oriented way.
• Experience on setting and applying KPIs and metrics to measure success and provide objective oriented results.
• Experience working with internal and external senior stakeholders, and with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in Product Development Lifecycle, product scoping, requirement gathering, backlog management, schedule and estimations, reviews and validations, execution, tracking and monitoring, documentation.
• Experience in conducting market research and competitive analysis to identify market trends, customer needs, and potential opportunities.

Desirable (Not a must-have):

• Worked on data analysis, visualisation and clustering.
• Worked on containerisation, docker, Kubernetes, integration and APIs.
• Worked on Version Control Systems, Task Trackers, ETL (data collection and processes practices).
• Worked as a software developer or a DevOps engineer in the past.
• Advocate for user-centred design practices, provide input on user research and usability testing, and ensure that the product's user experience aligns with customer expectations.

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000

Location: Central London

Start: ASAP

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