Senior Product Manager

At Beam, you get to do work that matters. We’re solving the world’s toughest social problems. And we’re growing fast 🚀 

It’s not easy. Nothing worth doing ever is. But we take care of everyone who works here with everything from coaching to personal budgets and pay highly competitively. 

You’ll be joining a company that’s already having a huge impact on people’s lives with a culture where you can be yourself, have fun and progress rapidly. 

We're one of the Hottest 10 Startups in London according to WIRED magazine and one of LinkedIn’s Top 15 UK Startups.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to play a critical role in delivering Beam’s digital products that span internal tooling and SaaS, with a focus on our AI.

Reporting to Seb, our co-founder, you’ll be at the forefront of transforming little-changed welfare services like employment and housing with the latest technologies.

Our latest product, Magic Notes, is an AI-powered tool currently in the pilot phase, with the potential to drive huge efficiencies in social work.

This is a hands-on role. We're looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager who loves working with a team to deliver truly exceptional products that drive measurable impact.

Being part of our product team within Beam will mean experimenting, learning from our mistakes and successes, setting a sky-high quality bar for product, and influencing the strategic direction based on partner feedback and market demands.

Please note this role is London-based, working a minimum of 2 days per week from our Hoxton HQ, and we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

You’ll be

• Increasing our efficiency - both of the product and team, in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm

• Hands-on with product management - Managing multiple products and priorities, whilst being able to set the roadmap at a squad level

• Establishing clear and measurable goals - Define and set meaningful goals, for which you hold yourself and our engineers accountable

• Making evidence-based decisions - Uusing a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and market insights. You don’t get stuck in analysis paralysis, and if you find yourself there, you ask for help to get out of it.

• Growing daily - Using mistakes as an opportunity for learning, and coaching your squad to deliver consistent high performance
  
   

You’ll have

• A results-driven mindset - you thrive working towards ambitious team and individual KPIs

• Hands-on experience as a product manager in a fast-paced tech company, and delivering world class products, with an obsessive eye for quality and detail. -

• A track record of success - A proven history of successful product discovery and delivery working closely with engineers, designers and other PMs

• Deep technical expertise - Understand well the mechanics, metrics, and levers of a B2B SaaS or tooling product with a specific focus on AI and automation, nice to have is a background in engineering, AI/ML or data science

• Passion - A desire to work in a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work environment, excited by Beam’s company values, culture and ways of working
   

Sound like you? Perhaps you don’t feel you tick every box - that’s OK, we encourage those who feel 70/75% confident with the role, to please hit ‘Apply’, especially if you’re excited about helping kickstart a new era of opportunity for those left behind!
 

About Beam

We’re a team of over 150 working from our beautiful coworking space in Shoreditch and from home. We’ve picked up an armful of awards for our work (including one from our former Queen!) We’re one of the 10 hottest startups in London, according to WIRED magazine and one of LinkedIn’s Top 15 UK Startups for 2022. We’re also proud to be rated a top company to work for Escape the City, Tempo and The Dots.

We’re committed to hiring diversely and inclusively. You don’t need a degree to work here and we love to hear from ethnic minority candidates and/or those who’ve experienced social disadvantage. 53% of people we support are from ethnic minority backgrounds and 17% have disabilities. We believe we serve these people best when we’re a diverse and inclusive team.

Our benefits

• A starting salary of between £80,000 - £110,000, highly competitive for Social Impact 
• EMI-qualifying share options
• Annual company retreat
• Personal Development Budget 
• Monthly counselling budget
• 1:1 workplace coaching with More Happi
  
• Regular team talks from leading UK tech entrepreneurs
• Discounted bike and accessories with Cyclescheme
  
• Generous holiday - 28 days per year + Bank Holidays
• Hybrid working from our Shoreditch office or at home (2 days in the office, 3 from home)
• Your own financial wellbeing coach, through Bippit

Application process

We take hiring seriously. We have a four-stage interview process, giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you.

1. 30 mins with our Talent team 
2. 45 mins with the Hiring Manager 
3. Task and full debrief with the hiring team 
4. Final meeting with peers and other Leaders in Beam 

Is there an application deadline? 

No, all roles remain live on our website until we have offered the role. This means we continue to review new applications whilst managing people through the 4 stage process. 

Feeling excited? 

Start your journey to the most rewarding and challenging role of your career. We're excited to hear from you.