Director of Product, Overleaf
Online LaTeX editor
Job no longer available
Online LaTeX editor
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help make science and research faster, more open and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery.
- 8+ years working on technology-powered products as either a product manager or product designer.
- Proven ability to go deep and quickly learn new domains, as well as solid understanding of all major parts of the business.
- Proven track record of coaching and developing other people.
- Strong understanding of SaaS business models.
- Familiarity with scholarly communication and research impact metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgment to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative.
- Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
- Passion for research, scholarly communication, and the impact of research on society.
- Experience with building AI-enhanced products and data intelligence products preferred.
- Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
What the job involves
- You will report into the VP of Product for Data & Analytics products. The Central Product division is a newly formed division, in which the Data & Analytics group of products sit
- Develop and refine the overall product vision, strategy and roadmap for Altmetric, aligned with the Data & Analytics Group’s mission and business goals.
- Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and gather customer feedback to identify market trends and opportunities.
- Define and communicate a clear product vision, ensuring alignment across all stakeholders, including executives, engineering, sales, and customer success teams.
- Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality execution.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and data science, to prioritize features, define user stories, and ensure seamless integration of new products and enhancements.
- Establish product development best practices, including agile methodologies, to maximize efficiency and optimize resource allocation.
- Work proactively and independently with stakeholders, partners, and other product managers to create, own, and execute a product strategy that drives the business through delivering on user needs.
- Work with product leadership to define an operating model for the Data & Analytics Product division, including objective setting, quarterly review process, and product development process.
- Utilize data analytics, metrics, and user feedback to monitor product performance, identify areas for optimization, and make data-driven decisions.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and regularly report on product performance to stakeholders.
- Leverage insights from data analysis to identify opportunities for innovation and inform product strategy.
- Champion a user-centered design approach, ensuring that Altmetric's products are intuitive, accessible, and provide exceptional user experiences.
- Conduct user research to gather insights and validate product decisions.
- Collaborate with customer support and sales teams to gather customer feedback, identify pain points, and prioritize product improvements.
- Line manage a small team of product managers and product designer.
- Coach a team of product managers in solution discovery and development.
- Facilitate workshops for group ideation and solutionizing.
- Coach your team in defining the product roadmap and prioritization of backlog, which should drive the product strategy.
- Set clear goals and objectives for the product team, ensuring alignment with company objectives and creating opportunities for growth and development.
- Promote a collaborative and inclusive work environment, fostering open communication, cross-functional collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
Our take
Dubbed the Google Docs for science, Overleaf enables modern collaborative authoring tools for academics. Its primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports, and so on, written in the LaTeX markup language.
Despite being founded in 2012, it has experienced its largest phase of growth only relatively recently. This is partially due to an increased need for collaborative tools among scientists who are working in globally distributed teams, but also because of Overleaf's growing reputation as a sophisticated platform for academics. It passed the 10 million user mark in 2021 and has continued to grow steadily in popularity.
The company, in its own words, has entered a new era, and describes its goal as becoming the first port of call for scientific writing for researchers, students and enterprises alike. With a product under constant development and a large and enthusiastic community of users, it is well poised to achieve its aim.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $0.1m
Company benefits
- Remote and flexible working
- You would join a small, dedicated and growing team
- We're substantially (around 80%) open source, so your work will often be on open source
- We're backed by Bethnal Green Ventures (https://bethnalgreenventures.com/) and Digital Science (https://www.digital-science.com/), through which we're part of a wider community of startups in science, health and ed-tech
- Our London office is shared with several other Digital Science companies, so there's lots of interesting people to meet, and clubs and sports activities outside of work
- You can pick your own equipment. MacBook Pro? Lenovo ThinkPad? Notebook and pen? However you like to work, we'll provide what you need
- We provide a training budget; many of our staff choose to attend relevant industry conferences or buy training materials
- We run a biweekly internal seminar series (show and tell) with short talks from staff about their work or personal projects, new technologies and techniques
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
John Lees-Miller
(CTO)Previously served as a Systems Engineer for Advanced Transport Systems - Ultra PRT, Network and Website Supervisor for Lister Hall Student Association, and as CTO for A Virtual View.
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