Product Manager

Life at Elvie – Meaningful work. Exceptional people

We develop smarter technology for women and are committed to building extraordinary products that improve women’s lives.It’s a fascinating and challenging area to be addressing as it requires all our employees to stretch themselves and solve problems that no-one’s tackled before. That’s why we’re looking for skilled, curious individuals who want to grow by surrounding themselves with a diverse array of outstanding people.

We develop smarter technology for women and are committed to building extraordinary products that improve women’s lives.It’s a fascinating and challenging area to be addressing as it requires all our employees to stretch themselves and solve problems that no-one’s tackled before. That’s why we’re looking for skilled, curious individuals who want to grow by surrounding themselves with a diverse array of outstanding people.

Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. It took the wellness industry by storm and is now available via the NHS Supply Chain. Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious Red Dot Award and an IDA Design Award.
Our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump has received international praise, including being listed as one of Times 100 best inventions in 2019 and ‘wearable design of the design of the year’ at the Dezeen Awards.

As a business, Elvie has received more than 30 awards, including being named as one of 15 startups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times, ranked as the 6th fastest growing business in the UK by SyndicateRoom in 2019. Tania Boler has recently been rated as the 8th most influential person shaping british technology in 2019 by Business Insider and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B from IPGL, Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures, bringing the total raised thus far to over $50 million. Our Series B represented the largest ever fundraise in Femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts, as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution.

What does it mean to work at Elvie?

We work collaboratively at the forefront of the growing Femtech industry with our innovative tech-focused products. You are surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them, and are passionate about our mission. We’re driven by the fulfilment of solving hard problems are constantly considering our users and the positive impact we can have on their health and wellbeing.

We’re deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive.

• We make an impact – we are mission driven and not afraid to break boundaries. We relentlessly focus on going the extra mile to solve problems
• We are fearless innovators – we are passionate, curious and data-driven. We continuously embrace change and innovation
• We are in it together – we fail and learn fast, always as one team, and have fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences

Who you are

You will be joining the cross-functional product team and should be excited about working with other product managers, hardware & software engineers, data scientists, designers, and researchers. You’ll need to be up for hitting the ground running. With two products launched, more markets opening up and new ideas that need to become a reality, there’s plenty to get involved with.

We will look to you to help us develop products we can be proud of because we’re proud of because you put the user at the centre of the design process and ensure we take a holistic view of the product experience. In return, you will have the opportunity and support to grow with exposure working throughout the product lifecycle from NPD to maintenance in market and on both hardware and software elements;

The Day to Day of the role:

Working with the product management team, you will help steer our product development to ensure we deliver against the product vision and delight our users. You will:

• Need to get under the skin of our users. Working closely with our product researchers, you’ll be involved in planning and conducting user research, learning about customer needs first hand
• Translate customer needs into product shaping information, writing user stories and user requirements and briefing relevant teams
• Communicate user needs and product plans to a variety of audiences. You must be able to sell the dream and fight the user’s corner

Development Guide – working across hardware and software teams to deliver one cohesive product experience in line with the vision. You will:

• Work side by side with cross-functional teams to help direct product development, keeping the team on track, and making sure the product vision is a constant throughout
• Will join daily stand-ups with our app dev teams and product team catch-ups.
• Stay on top of what our competitors are up to and the results they are getting, and where valuable and relevant, use this to inform our product development
• Manage, update and prioritise a backlog of features, and brief and manage the development of design work. You will use Jira to manage app development and Asana for in-house designers (UX/UI).

Problem Solver – hungry to make things better and up for the challenge of tackling unknowns. You:

• Are curious and questioning – not afraid to ask questions to ensure we identify route causes not symptoms, so that we design the right solutions
• Will be able to juggle the day to day, whilst also seeing the bigger picture, so that you can identify and focus on the most pressing challenges
• Are driven to make things better, and push for quality outcomes for the user. But you know also know when is “good enough”
• Will identify opportunities to improve existing processes and tools, and introduce new ones to support the scaling up of development work

Stakeholder Manager – you can work with a variety of different people, personalities and business units seamless balancing needs, hearing and being heard. You

• Are a good listener and make sure people feel heard.
• Will hear a muddle of different perspectives and be able to analyse the situation and pick a path forwards acknowledging the compromise taken.
• Will bring people on the journey of feature and product development with you, judging who needs to be kept informed about what, without adding unnecessary noise.
• Will manage change: you’ll get buy-in for the changes from stakeholders, and lead the implementation, using data to understand and improve iteratively