Senior Product Manager, Sona
£80-120k
+ Equity
AI-powered people operating system for frontline teams
Open for applications
AI-powered people operating system for frontline teams
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£80-120k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To solve the unique challenges of frontline work with truly intelligent AI that empowers every employee.
Role
Who you are
- You’re an experienced Product Manager, capable of owning a product area and coordinating your team to ship high-quality features quickly
- You take massive ownership over ensuring that your product area is a success, and embrace getting stuck into anything that will help us do that
- You understand the commercial context of your business and can balance those against the needs of enterprise customers
- You communicate clearly and transparently, erring on the side of over-communicating with your team and the wider business
What the job involves
- At Sona, we view Product Managers as the ‘CEO’ of their product area, with the mission of doing whatever is necessary to make your part of the product or product journey successful
- This naturally creates an incredibly varied set of responsibilities, from prioritisation of our core roadmap against urgent feedback and requests to deep discovery with customers and in-house SMEs, hands-on implementation or new feature roll-out, and even facilitating sales by demo-ing exciting new functionality or preparing collateral to help the team
- To be successful you’ll need to quickly build mental models of new, complex business areas, adapt quickly to take on varied, cross-functional, and mission-critical tasks with low prep time, and have the the commercial and stakeholder know-how to balance the needs of newly acquired enterprise customers with our long-term vision
- Being a Product Manager at Sona isn’t for everyone, especially if you’re looking for a highly structured and process-driven environment, lots of time to stop and think, dot I’s and cross T’, or a purely 9-5 role with strict work-life separation
- What you will get is huge impact and ownership over the success of a product with an incredibly positive mission, an exceptional team of developers (and other product folks) who are committed to shipping a great product, and a share of the financial rewards for success
- Defining and managing the core-feature roadmap for Sona’s a key area of our product
- Prioritising how we build towards our long-term product vision while keeping our customers happy and improving our ability to acquire new ones
- Engaging in discovery for both core and differentiating features using a mix of first-hand discovery, SME knowledge, and prior art
- Working across our implementation and customer success and support teams to ensure we build the most valuable product for our customers and that they realise that value
- Ensuring Product activities facilitate Sona’s continued commercial growth
- Collaborating with our wider Product, Engineering, and Data team to facilitate them in building the best product possible
Our take
80% of people don’t work at desks, but the technology for deskless workers only attracts 1% of all enterprise software investment. Consequently, little software has been designed to benefit the frontline. Sona is a workforce technology startup setting out to help solve this issue, building an all-in-one platform specially designed to empower frontline workers and help their employers retain staff and operate more efficiently.
By using its app, users can view and claim shifts, communicate with their colleagues, and book holidays. Moreover, Sona has additional modules for HR, Payroll, and Engagement, so customers can manage all of their people operations in one place, or integrate with their existing tools.
Sona is an early-stage startup, yet already counts big names across Social Care, Hospitality, and the Charities sector who have combined to book millions of shifts on the Sona platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"Sona strikes a good balance between giving me the trust and autonomy to do my best work, while being on hand to support and unblock me where..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2024
$27.5m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$7m
SEED
Total funding: $36.7m
Company benefits
- Share options
- Remote first and flexible working
- 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)
- Pension contributions matched up to 5%
- Enhanced parental leave & pay - 26 weeks full pay primary parent / 8 weeks full pay secondary parent
- Co-working space stipend (if you don't live in London)
- Quarterly all expenses paid team retreats
- The latest Macbook and equipment for your home office
- Professional development budget
- Unlimited free books
- Comprehensive health insurance via Bupa
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Ben Dixon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Associate - Consulting at PWC and Software Engineer at Thorlabs. Also, Co-Founder & CTO at Catapult Ventures Limited for 6 years.
Oli Johnson
(Co-Founder)Previously Associate at NEO Capital and Investment Manager at Baugur Group. Co-Founder at Catapult for 6 years.
Steffen Wulff Petersen
(Co-Founder)Previously Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs for 2 years. Since then has been Co-Founder & Managing Director at Lazada Group and Co-Founder at Catapult.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Sona
- Fully remote work and total control over your schedule means you can excel at Sona no matter where, when, or how you like to work. We also offer extended parental leave to everyone.
- We're partnered with the Women in Tech Forum, a membership platform dedicated to supporting and accelerating the careers of women. Optional memberships are available to all women and allies at Sona to access their wide range of events, masterclasses, articles, and more.
- Salary transparency across all of our job postings means your offer is based on your experience and interview performance, not your previous salary or your negotiating skills.
- We use structured interview processes and assessment criteria to remove as much bias from our process as possible
- We do all of our collaborative work in public channels, which means everyone gets a say and the recognition they deserve, and nobody's out of the loop.
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