Junior Product Manager, Heetch
V.I.E
Ride-hailing app
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Ride-hailing app
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Heetch's misison is to make mobility more inclusive and more responsible.
Role
Who you are
- Strong analytical and synthesis skills, rigorous
- Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills
- Graduated from Engineering or Business school
- 1-3 years of experience, ideally in Product Management or in other industries which can lead to this role, such as data or business analyst, process engineer, consulting, in a tech environment
- Good technical understanding of mobile apps
- Ability to navigate between strategical and operational tasks
- Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams
- And hey — studies show some people (especially women and early-career folks) hold back from applying unless they tick every single box. Don’t do that. If this role sparks something in you, but you’re not sure you match everything — apply anyway. We care about potential, mindset, and energy just as much as experience
What the job involves
- As a V.I.E Junior Product Manager, you will support our Product Management team in the delivery of global products with big impact across Europe and Africa
- Get from a problem statement to an actual feature used by real people
- Be an active contributor to Heetch Product Strategy, understand its strategic and competitive position and drive your projects toward those goals
- Feel the market, know what innovative features to implement to make our product stand out
- Help create Product roll-out plans for a successful adoption Follow up feature success based on success criteria that you’ll define with a Senior PM
- Write product requirements that matches your teams ideation process
- Maximise efficiency for your team and your own output, in an environment where tomorrow is always uncertain
- Create insights on how the market is evolving, how the product is being felt by our users, where we should be moving, integrate them to your Product requirements
Our take
Heetch is looking to carve out its own niche in the ride-sharing industry, and taking on Uber is no small feat. They’ve been laying down a strong service and reputational foundation, though. For drivers, Heetch only takes a 15% commission to Uber’s 25%, and doesn’t use driver ratings as a way of reporting problems. For customers, rides are cheaper than an UberX, and are designed to have a younger, funner feel.
So how well is this strategy working? Well, Heetch is second behind Uber in France, and has spread to a couple of neighbouring countries like Belgium and Italy. Predominantly, however, its expansion is focused on francophone regions in Africa like Algeria, Cameroon, Senegal, and the Ivory Coast.
This could prove a smart move, as Uber has yet to dominate many of the African markets, thanks to smaller companies offering locally tailored and more effective competing services. These same problems are likely to plague Heetch, too, but with the leader off its top spot, there may be more room to manoeuvre.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2019
$4m
SERIES B
May 2019
$38m
SERIES B
Total funding: $74.2m
Company benefits
- Yes to remote working and autonomy
- Flexible hours
- Events and parties, Heetch style
- 50% discount on all Heetch rides
- A culture of employee empowerment in our daily lives: Regular training for everyone, a clear career path, sharing all of the projects’ information with everyone
- Cool offices ideally located in the heart of Barcelona and Paris
- A culture of employee empowerment in our daily lives: Regular training for everyone, a clear career path, sharing all of the projects’ information with everyone
- Company and team retreats
Company HQ
Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova, Barcelona, Spain
Leadership
Teddy Pellerin
(CEO)Has experience in project management from Sun'R and Nature Energies, and worked as a Sales Manager at Mydeal.ma.
Mathieu Jacob
(CPO)Worked as a process engineer with Hager Group, before moving on to be a Senior Consultant with eleven.
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