Senior Product Manager, Goodnotes
Platform Team, 18 Month Fixed Term Contract, Convertible
£70-100k
Top-rated note-taking app
Open for applications
Top-rated note-taking app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£70-100k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the best medium for human and AI collaboration.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working on platforms serving millions of users
- Track record of launching successful platform features (e.g. related to SLA/performance guarantees, multi-tenant/multi-instance architecture, data residency, etc.) from concept to launch
- Deep understanding of backend technologies (APIs, webhooks, databases) and distributed systems concepts (latency, conflict resolution, availability)
- Ability to translate high-level business goals (e.g. "improve retention") into technical requirements (e.g. "reduce sync error rate to <0.5%")
- Ability to prioritize non-functional requirements (uptime, throughput, speed) alongside new feature development
- Comfort with analyzing metric dashboards and diving into logs to prioritize engineering work
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Product Manager with strong technical background to drive the sync engine behind Goodnotes
- In this high-impact role, you will lead the sync and infrastructure strategy, transforming our platform from a personal note-taking tool into a robust, real-time collaborative workspace for enterprises
- Your mission is twofold: improve the reliability of our current sync architecture and build the low-latency foundation required for our next-generation collaboration capabilities
- You will work alongside backend and frontend experts to tackle complex distributed systems challenges, directly enabling our expansion into the B2B market
- Driving the sync engine behind Goodnotes: Leading the sync and infrastructure strategy in a high-impact role
- Transforming the platform: Evolving Goodnotes from a personal note-taking tool into a robust, real-time collaborative workspace for enterprises
- Twofold mission: Improving the reliability of our current sync architecture while building the low-latency foundation required for our next-generation collaboration capabilities
- Tackling complex challenges: Working alongside backend and frontend experts on distributed systems challenges to directly enable our expansion into the B2B market
Application process
- An introductory call with someone from our talent acquisition team. They want to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join Goodnotes
- A call with your hiring manager. This will be a deep dive into your product experience, platform-related knowledge, and strategic thinking
- A call with the Platform Team's tech lead to better understand how you collaborate with technical partners
- A meet-the-team call with 2 or 3 Goodpeople you’d be working closely with at Goodnotes
- An AI literacy interview, designed to help us gauge your experience with AI tools and your approach to working with this technology
- Potentially a call with our head of monetization & strategy
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of background checks, including verification of employment, education, and criminal records
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Goodnotes is a digital note-taking tool for handwritten notes and (formerly) paper-based information. Thanks to its signature vector ink engine, the app delivers a precise and natural writing experience. It can read handwriting (even the worst handwriting) and allow users to search it, as well as convert it to text for easy sharing into other apps or even web pages. Goodnotes also supports importing, searching, and navigation through PDF, PowerPoint, Word, image files, and more.
The platform is available across iPhone, iPad and Mac. One of the leading note-taking solutions on the App Store (with over 14,000 positive reviews) it competes with apps like Notability and Paper by WeTransfer. Founded in Hong Kong, Goodnotes now operates across the UK and with a number of new features and acquisitions, its proving a powerhouse in digital productivity.
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Focus on employee wellbeing
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Funding (1 round)
Jun 2020
$6m
SEED
Total funding: $6m
Company benefits
- Stock options: Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup
- Excellent annual leave package + public holidays
- Flexible working hours and location, we're remote friendly!
- Medical insurance for you and your family
- Continuous learning: A learning and development budget or training or courses to build your skills
- Be your best self: A monthly budget for personal growth including books, language/music lessons and online courses
- Noise cancelling headphones
- Monthly wellness budget: Covering gym membership, therapy, massage and much, much more
- Amazing office space in central London and Hong Kong. Your Travel and lunch are also on us!
- Home office set up: Everything you need to create a productive workspace at home. Chairs, desks, hardware, it's covered
- Sponsored working visa with a relocation package to either of our office locations
- Annual team off-site: Get to know your colleagues
- Professional coffee equipment and freshly roasted beans in our offices
Company values
- Dream big
- Build great things
- Operate as an owner
- Win like a sports team
- Learn and grow fast
- Share our passion
- Be user obsessed
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Steven Chan
(Founder & CEO)Goodnotes was created from Steven's frustration with taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. Since then, the company has grown to millions of happy users.
Paul Onnen
(Senior Vice President of Engineering)Paul loves building things that help make people's lives better and they are using this experience to help Goodnotes be successful as we continue to grow.
Minh Tran
(COO)Minh is a seasoned people and business leader who is obsessed with searching for the world’s best talent and building winning teams that are highly skilled, innovative, and passionate.
Rowena Chung
(Director of Product)Rowena leads product discovery and strategy across Goodnotes' product group. She is committed to understanding the users’ needs and enhancing their productivity and experience with the app.
People progressing
Bret joined Goodnotes in 2018 as a Senior Software Engineer. In 2023 he was promoted to a Principal Engineer.
Joined Goodnotes in 2021 as a Senior ML Engineer and is now a Senior Engineering Manager, leading a product team to build an incredible AI productivity experience impacting millions of users.
Cam joined Goodnotes as a Senior Brand Designer and 3 years later became the Global Brand Design Lead!
Rammy joined Goodnotes as a Senior QA Engineer in December 2019, transitioned to QA lead after 2.5 years and again to QA manager after 4 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Goodnotes
Vivien Ko (People Ops Manager)
- We are a team of c 270, from 39 different countries... and still growing
- We believe diverse teams create better outcomes for users, teams, and businesses
- Learn more about one of our Female Directors https://www.goodnotes.com/blog/rowena-product-manager
- We know there's still a lot more we need to do - and we want you to be part of helping us on our DE&I journey!
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