Who are Benefex? 💚💜

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the UK. We believe no one comes to work to do a bad job or be actively disengaged, and that technology is instrumental in providing an exceptional employee experience. We are striving to create seamless but tangible interactions between employers and employees, making work a rewarding place for every single one of us. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

Why should you apply? 🌟

• Impact: Work on products that impact the employee engagement and wellbeing of millions of people 
• Autonomy: Own the product vision and roadmap, decide on the best way to bring value to our users 
• Global: Scale our products to meet the needs of millions of users around the world with a focus on enterprise customers 
• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

**Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position**

Great benefits:

💰 £75,000-90,000

💻 Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)

📚 £/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.

🤸 Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in our Southampton office

✈️ 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays

🎂 Your birthday off

❤️ Two half day wellbeing days

🩺 Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day to day healthcare

🧠 Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support

🤒 Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)

🤑 Pension scheme

💳 £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benefex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview 🤩

As a Senior Product Manager at Benefex, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the OneHub employee experience product suite. You will be responsible for leading the "What" and "Why" of the product features, while collaborating closely with Engineers who focus on the technical "How." You’ll take inspiration from Benefex’s vision to create exciting and engaging roadmaps that captivate users, delight customers, and motivate the Engineers building the products. Building a close-knit relationship with your squad will be essential to ensure alignment, efficiency, and the delivery of exceptional product experiences.

Responsibilities 🤘

• Product Vision and Strategy: Translate Benefex’s vision into a compelling product strategy and roadmap that inspires users, customers, and engineers alike.
• Product Roadmap: Work with Product Managers across products to collaborate and align experiences, growing the employee experiences. You will create and own the product roadmap, agreeing on quarterly objectives with other stakeholders.
• Ideation and Planning: Collaborate with UX teams and Senior Engineers from ideation through architecture and roadmap planning.
• User Stories and Development: Translate the product roadmap into clear user stories. Plan and prioritise for the squad Engineers to oversee development, testing, and delivery of features.
• Metrics and QA: Define key metrics to measure success, workload, and sprint goals. Work with QA and Engineers to set clear acceptance criteria aligned with objectives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with stakeholders across the business (Exec, Sales, Customer Success, Operations) to understand user needs while working with stakeholders to balance understanding their asks and planning priorities effectively.
• Agile Leadership: Guide team ceremonies and feature focus planning, focusing on meaningful collaboration and effective planning to ensure alignment and delivery.
• Feature Validation: Test and validate feature work, ensuring readiness for release and effectively broadcasting newly launched features.

What are we looking for? 🔎

• Product Management expertise: proven experience leading a squad, creating and owning product roadmaps, running Agile ceremonies and having ownership for an entire product. 
• Product at Scale: experience working in global SaaS product companies or helping products achieve scale (enterprise customers, global features)
• Passion for Product: you care about building great products that people love to use, you focus on bringing value to customers and look for ways to continuously improve your own PM skills
• Execution Focus: someone with a drive to get things done, comfortable committing and delivering to deadlines, and able to find ways around problems. 
• Clear Communication: Confident in writing clear, concise user stories, presenting product updates, roadmap plans, and feature release announcements. Comfortable delivering presentations at company monthly and quarterly updates, ensuring alignment and transparency across stakeholders.
• Deep Relationships: Demonstrated ability to engage with Engineers, explaining the "What" and "Why" of product decisions. You will foster collaboration by bouncing ideas, participating in discovery, and aligning on solutions that drive impactful outcomes.
• Drive and Resilience: Passion for the product and the employee experience mission and vision, coupled with tenacity and resilience to navigate challenges effectively.

• Experience in enterprise B2B SaaS
• Experience in HR Tech 
• Experience in world-class product organisations, either companies that have reached scale (Google, Microsoft, Uber, Deliveroo, JustEAT) or high growth startups

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Our interview process

Benefex understand the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team - 30 min

⏳ Interview with a VP of Engineering - 30 min

🧪 Interview with 1-2 Senior PM's - 60 min

🤩 Final interview with CEO/Founder - 30 min

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.