Senior Product Manager, Gousto
12 month Fixed-Term Contract
1+ day a week in office
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
Be an early applicant
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Gousto's mission is to make the food in our boxes more sustainable.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will have a detailed understanding of internal tooling and data optimisation models, as well as customer facing digital experiences, and a track record of leading cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and create a clear path to success, including when not all information is immediately at hand
- Ability to break complex processes into manageable chunks of work that bring clear value to customers and the business
- Strong product fundamentals, including an ability to define and deliver product strategy and roadmaps in a fast-paced environment
- Commercial, analytical and able to prioritise between competing tasks quickly
- An ability to earn trust and build valuable relationships that you leverage to take people with you through change
- Experience working closely with senior engineer and design teams
- Experience working on internal tooling, optimisation models and data products
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Product Manager who shares our vision and passion to innovate and deliver on behalf of our customers
- As the Senior Product Manager for our menu and choice, you will lead a multidisciplinary team changing the way hundreds of thousands of households choose to eat dinner each night
- You are responsible for enabling Gousto to present the best menus to our customers, week after week, to keep them delighted and coming back for more
- Supported by data science models, you will guide your team to ensure we offer recipes that not only match customers' preferences but also evolve with their tastes
- Working closely with a Senior Product Designer, you will also make our internal tooling and processes fit for purpose to support our big ambitions in the menu space
- Reporting to the Group Product Manager, you will:
- Build and develop a digital product strategy within your domain
- Advocate customer needs, both internal and external, by generating and using qualitative and quantitative insights
- Rigorously prioritise using customer and business-lenses
- Use lean practices to drive product development with a team of world-class designers, engineers, data scientists, solutions architects and analysts
- Drive change through a cross-functional team delivering value to the customer and keeping internal stakeholders aligned on direction
- Work closely with our operations, operations systems, proposition, product analysts and senior leadership teams
- Direct the ideation, development and launch of new capabilities
- Define and analyse metrics that inform the success of your domain
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an accelerating consumer need to eat healthily, sustainably, and at value. Gousto aims to meet this need with its meal-kit delivery service, which offers pre-packaged ingredients and recipe instructions. It sets itself apart with more than 60 different recipes to choose from each week - a third of which are customisable.
In 2021, Gousto sold more than 90 million meals, amounting to three meals every second, a figure that is on the rise. It is part of The UK Plastics Pact, which aims for 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic by 2025. As a member, Gousto has committed to eliminating problematic plastics, stimulating innovation and helping to build a stronger recycling system in the UK.
Gousto became a B Corp certified company for its sustainability efforts. Following huge recent investments, the now unicorn company is sure to continue its growth over the coming years as more consumers switch to convenient online grocery shopping.
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42% female employees
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Team energy
"The energy at Gousto is infectious! There's always a way to get involved in the things you're most passionate about. Everyone is so enthusiastic..."
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$63.2m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $363.9m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays), + a holiday day added each year (up to 30 days), + buy up to 5 days extra holiday
- 40% Gousto discount, 25% for friends and family, and first box free
- Private healthcare
- Gym and ClassPass membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Referral scheme
- Company pension
- Quarterly team socials and mixed team events
- Gousto stash - hoodie, notepad, mug
- Free coffee, tea, fruit and ice cream
- Free beer, wine and soft drinks on Fridays
Company values
- Dream - We’ve got huge ambition and believe everything is possible - Curious, bold and resilient, we’ve got an insatiable appetite to learn and grow
- Deliver - We work at pace and focus on impact, taking ownership of the solution and raising the bar every step of the way
- Care - We obsess over our customers, doing the right thing for them and for the planet. We are one team, supporting and celebrating one another
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
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Leadership
Timo Boldt
(CEO)Spent 4 years in Finance at Rothschild and a hedge fund before founding Gousto in 2012. Sits on the Digital Advisory Board at Unilever.
People progressing
Joined as Operations Development Director, being promoted to EVP Operations after 1 year, and has since become Chief People Officer.
Joined as a Customer Care Agent in 2014, and is now Head of Customer Care.
Joined as PR Manager, being promoted to Senior Brand and PR Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Brand Marketing and PR after 3 years.
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