Senior Product Manager, Zinc Work
£70k
+Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
Automated employee reference and background checking software
Open for applications
Automated employee reference and background checking software
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£70k
+Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To change the way people prove their work identity.
Role
Who you are
- You Have: Product Sense
- Seasoned product leadership: 3-5 years in Product Management, ideally in B2B SaaS environments
- Product Strategy
- To guide Zinc’s long-term vision, prioritising initiatives that support sustainable growth beyond short-term wins
- Data Analysis
- To assess and validate objectives with measurable outcomes, ensuring the product’s success is data-driven
- Interviewing Skills
- To effectively gather valuable customer insights and translate them into actionable product direction
- Pragmatic
- To balance ambition with feasibility, delivering impactful solutions within available resources and timelines
- Empathetic
- To understand and advocate for customer and team needs, ensuring the product addresses real pain points
- Autonomous
- To independently drive projects and make informed decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Communicative
- To facilitate collaboration, pitch ideas clearly, and maintain alignment across teams and with stakeholders
What the job involves
- A culture that prioritises ownership, innovation, and impact
- Opportunities to work on bleeding-edge technology like AI and LLMs
- Direct collaboration with our CEO and senior leadership
- A chance to make a tangible mark on a fast-scaling, Series A company
- An opportunity to take on a more strategic role that will propell your career as a Product Manager
- Product Managers at Zinc:
- Are strategic
- Sole problem owners
- Have direct customer relationships
- Own the Objective roadmap
- Empowered to access all data
- Explore bleeding edge technology: LLM's
Application process
- Throughout the interview process, you will be assessed directly inline with the requirements above
- Phone call with Lauren, Talent Associate (5-10 minutes)
- Interview with & Jess, Design Lead & Gabi, Senior Product Manager (30mins)
- Zinc Preview - Pre-final stage reference's with Zinc
- Final In-person interview with Task with Luke, CEO & Founder, Joe, Senior Product Designer & Han, Product Designer (1 hour)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The existing processes for referencing and background checking suffer from notable inefficiencies, marked by biases, time-consuming procedures, and an intimidating experience for candidates. Addressing these challenges, Zinc Work aims to solve these processes by introducing an automated reference and background-checking solution.
Setting itself apart in the market, ZinC Work focuses on the user-friendly design of its solution, its swift integration into existing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and its high level of customisation. With a vision to offer a solution for background checks, Zinc covers a spectrum from criminal record checks to financial, education, identity, employment, and reference checks.
Recently securing funding, led by esteemed financial services investor AVP (AXA Venture Partners) and supported by Seedcamp, facilitating the launch of groundbreaking industry initiatives. These include the introduction of the first reusable global Right To Work check, the first Employment verification reference integrated with HMRC, and a background check template library collaboratively contributed to by over 40 Zinc Work customers. This financial injection underscored Zinc's commitment to innovation and reinforced its positon as a trailblazer in the realm of automated reference and background chec king solutions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Employee endorsements
Team energy
"Team energy is great, there is lots of positivity and support. Because we only come in 2-3 days a week, when we are in everyone is engaged and happy..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$6.2m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$1.4m
SEED
Total funding: $8m
Company benefits
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
- Apple laptop and latest tech gear for your home workstation
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company Retreat - this year in 🇫🇷
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
Company values
- Empathy: Seeking to understand your perspective first
- Collaboration: We will work teogether to solve problems
- Empowered: Empowering candidates with information and data
- Speed: We will work to deliver at pace
- Integrity: We are truth seekers, providing transparent information
- Pragmatic: We're a solutions oriented team that seeks to solve
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Charlotte Lucy Hall
(Co-Founder)Previously a Marketing Manager at Superscript, Podcast Producer at Talent Hacks for Scaleups, and a Marketing Executive at ILTM.
Luke Shipley
(Co-Founder)Previously EMEA Head of Technology at Intelletec for 1 year. Has also co-founded stitch Leggings and Lean Lychee.
People progressing
He was a regular soldier in the Army, after leaving and studying he joined Zinc as an SDR (After a spell gold diving in FLorida). Having come in with no experience he has promoted fast through Zinc.
Tiasha joined Zinc way back in 2021, she highlighted that she wanted to work in Account Managment and has worked hard to make this career change happen.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zinc Work
- We currently do not record LGBTQIA+ status: our team is small, which means data is hard to anonymise.
- As of January 2024, 48% of the Zinc team are Ethnic Minorities.
- We offer flexible working for everyone from day one.
- Accommodations are available for everyone, regardless of status and never need to be justified: this is outlined in our DEI Statement which is accessible to all employees.
- We offer prayer space at our co-working offices, and flexible diary arrangements for employees to keep their faith.
- We’ve created a ‘Manual of Me’ page in our company Notion: to help foster understanding and allow team members to advocate for their communication style and work patterns.
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