Lead Product Manager

About us

BeZero Carbon is a global ratings agency for the Voluntary Carbon Market. We distribute our ratings via our SaaS Product, BeZero Carbon Markets, informing all market participants on how to price and manage risk. Our ratings and research tools support buyers, intermediaries, investors and carbon project developers.

Founded in April 2020, our 120+ strong team combines climatic and earth sciences, sell-side financial research, earth observation, machine learning, data and technology, engineering, and public policy expertise. We work from four continents.

Having raised a significant Series B funding round in late 2022, we are rapidly growing as a company, accelerating the Net-Zero transition through ratings.

www.bezerocarbon.com

Job Description

BeZero is looking for a Lead Product Manager to join our established Product team. This role would focus on work across our internal processes, tools and operational excellence.

This role will lead the ongoing effort to increase productivity across BeZero and lead the development of core tools and applications across our Ratings, Data, Ops and Research teams. This role is pivotal to ensure the scaling of the company and its operational processes.

BeZero provides an unparalleled opportunity to build and work on products which sit at the cutting edge of climate and financial technology.

We’re looking for a competent and ambitious all rounder who can manage multiple tasks, projects and stakeholders concurrently. Someone who is an entrepreneurial self-starter who can comfortably and confidently run their own work streams and deliver at pace. The role will be a mix of strategy and delivery but will be focused on execution in the short-term. It will report to the Chief Product Officer.

Responsibilities

Product Management

-Identify customer needs and break them down into tasks for analysis and implementation

-Review product usage information to understand patterns and suggest improvements

-Be able to elicit customer feedback and have customer empathy to ensure a smooth UX/IX

-Be able to explain and evangelise the product and features to a non technical audience

Business Analysis

-Given a high level goal identify the steps to achieve and break them down into tickets that can be explored and actioned by the development team

-Identify business process changes as well as technology changes

Technical Analysis

-Working with the development team help breakdown work items and identify technical decisions and options for implementation

Project Management

-Produce project plans and manage delivery to the appropriate hand off point (i.e. product / feature launch)

-Provide reporting to management in a timely and clear manner including escalations

-Ensure delivery of an outcome (not just a feature or a project)

Essential experience

-6+ years experience as a Product Manager

-Experience in working with highly experienced, on-shore engineering teams

-Background in a content, research or data business in a B2B context preferred

-Demonstrated ability to identify, define and deliver initiatives

-Comfort manipulating and interpreting quantitative data from product analytics

-The ability to work effectively under pressure within a fast-growing company

It would be ideal if you have:

-Interest or experience in carbon markets, or environmental / climate change topics more broadly

-Experience in building internal tools & applications in a complex stakeholder environment.

Please know that even if you don’t have experience in all the areas above but think you could do a great job and are excited about building a great company culture, bringing transparency to the voluntary carbon market, and being part of a fast-growing team, we would love to hear from you!

What we’ll offer:

-Competitive salary and opportunity for equity in a rapidly growing VC-backed start-up through share options

-Ability to learn and develop alongside a range of sector specialists from the scientific, economic and business community

-Opportunity to work in a cross-cutting role, interacting with lots of different parts of the business

-Growth opportunities that come from working at a fast-paced VC-backed technology business

-Opportunity to work remote or in our East London office space (Hoxton) with flexibility to work from home + some flexibility over working location during the summer

Regular social events

-25 days leave (with additional time off between Christmas and New Year, and for your birthday)

-Private medical insurance, dental, critical illness cover, income protection, life assurance, medical cash plan, cycle to work scheme, and a health and wellness cash allowance

We value diversity at BeZero Carbon. We need a team that brings different perspectives and backgrounds together to build the tools needed to make the voluntary carbon market transparent. We’re therefore committed to not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, age, or disability.