Junior Product Analyst, Byway
£30-35k
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Flight free travel company
Job no longer available
Flight free travel company
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£30-35k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Byway's mission is to make slow travel holidays mainstream.
Role
Who you are
- A year or two of prior experience in a product role including sprint and backlog management
- Data analysis experience, including Google Analytics and Excel/Sheets
- Excellent analytical and technical skills, experience working with large datasets and good statistical knowledge including of significance testing and sample sizes
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical talks to other areas of the business, and business needs into tech requirements
- Superb project and time management skills to ensure things are done to schedule
- A good eye for detail so that user testing is accurate and rigorous
- A start-up mentality: curious, adaptable and willing to jump in wherever needed
Desirable
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience in a high growth startup and/or travel
- Familiarity with BI tools like Looker or Tableau
What the job involves
- Manage the Product Backlog, collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g. marketing, sales, delivery) to translate business requirements into user stories, scoping tickets, triaging and adding to sprints and/or the product roadmap
- Manage the sprint planning and delivery process including helping the tech team to plan their work, removing blockers, tracking progress and reporting on performance
- Manage functionality and user testing, conducting technical tests yourself, including cross device, and supporting business owners to test their features
- Build, manage and develop our Product data analytics, including KPIs for existing and new projects/features and self-serve reporting tools for the business, and share regular reports with the wider business to inform decision making
- Manage error reporting and identify and execute actions to bring down errors, including allocating bug fixes and opportunities for improvement to the right people
- Use data to develop the product, run experiments including AB tests to validate hypothesis and put in place a continuous data discovery loop process
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Byway arrange no-fly holidays for eco-conscious travellers, where participants voyage by way of trains, boats, and buses only, spending time at local accommodation and hidden stop-off points along the way. It’s a neat idea, and the relatively young company has been getting some high-profile attention for it.
This is in part because Byway’s timing has been astute. Firstly, their model chimes neatly with the growing interest in low-carbon, low-impact activities that have been a major part of public conversation over recent years. Secondly, it dovetails with the renewed interest in ‘staycations’ following the period of restricted international travel. And finally, it pitches itself at that evergreen category of traveller keen to experience something a little more local and authentic on their travels - see, for example, the success of platforms like Atlas Obscura, or (arguably) Airbnb.
Byway are enjoying resounding approval from customers, which is remarkable given the operational complexity of timetabling these kinds of journey. With eco-focused trends expected to continue going forwards, and the firm foundation that Byway have laid for themselves in these first few years, the innovative company could go on to have real industry impact.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
64% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2024
$6.7m
SERIES A
Jul 2021
$1.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $8.2m
Company benefits
- ⏰ Flexible hours - 80 hours over two weeks whenever you want, with 4 hour meeting free blocks between 9-5 and meeting free Thursdays
- 👋 Co-working office credits - optional team work time or get out of the house
- 🚂 Annual ‘Byway Away’ days - a whole weekday to spend with the team, not working, in the fresh air, bonding with one another
- 🏖️ Byway Holiday - a budget-friendly Byway holiday per year at a cost price for you and your immediate family. A great way to explore amazing destinations by benefitting from our trade discounts and interrail pricing!
- 👫 Be part of our founding team - an opportunity to have shares in Byway for permanent team members
- 🏡 Remote-first - whether you prefer working from home or while travelling, we trust you to do your best work and commit to your working goals.
- 📆 Hybrid remote with 2 days/month in London - come together each month for focused team and strategy time.
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Leadership
Cat Jones
(CEO)Spent ten years at Unruly, ultimately serving as the Global SVP of Data, before moving on to work as Managing Director of Travel and Media at Founders Factory.
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