Paid Search Manager, Carwow

A significant proportion of carwow's mid-managerial leaders have been internally promoted, and there are countless examples of people going from an individual contributor to leading teams of 5+ within 18mths (including myself!) Furthermore, I felt very supported when taking these steps up - with an appreciation of how raw I was in many of the core capabilities needed to lead a team and influence. I was worried about it being a step too far, and that hasn't been the case due to great managerial support.

Carwow just raised further funding to rapidly scale the service helping customers to sell their vehicles, a hot market right now. This is a huge focus internally and leads to some very new questions - that are always fun to tackle! There's a massive opportunity to diversify outside of our traditional car-purchasing product.

I've had 3 separate managers in my 18mths here at carwow, each of them helping me develop in different areas. Our 'People' team does a great job at setting the base expectations of managers, and new managers go through extensive training with 3rd parties, but there is significant free reign to manage how you would like - which I feel leads to managers playing to their strengths.