Product Manager (Mobile app - Monetization, in-ap payment and billing)
My client is looking for an outstanding Product Manager, to join their team creating multi-million download apps for Android, IOS and Mobile Web. You'll be used to quick iteration, be enthused about tech social discovery and dating, and able to drive efficiency in a dynamic environment where innovation is the norm.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Drive product development with a team of world-class engineers and designers, leading ideation and giving visual input.
Pitch ideas to senior stakeholders, manage their expectations and establish shared vision across the company. Build consensus on priorities leading to product execution.
Understand strategic and competitive position, and deliver products that are recognised as industry-leading.
Share a compelling narrative about what problems our products solve, for whom, and how they are solved. Question user behaviour, and analyse data to find answers.
Identify opportunities and be able to adapt to change and new information.
Define and analyse metrics that inform the success of products and new features.
Global product management: prioritisation and execution across platforms, markets, languages and currencies.
Motivate the team, creating urgency and excitement about projects.
EXPERIENCE
Extensive experience delivering mobile apps of a significant scale and complexity, shipping on a regular basis.
Proven experience driving revenue performance in an in-app environment.
Proven experience optimising both subscription and in-app currency products, including in-creasing conversion through paywall optimisation.
Develop in-app monetisation features and services for portfolio of apps.
Propose and manage feature pricing, bundle offers and sales for in-app currency.
Strong intellect backed by good product instincts.
Strong knowledge of appropriate product performance metrics, and background in data-driven decision making.
Product. management experience within an in-house development environment, being comfortable communicating with engineers.
Demonstrable interest in social discovery/dating industry.
Strong knowledge of A/B testing.
Experience working on multiple products concurrently desirable.
Ability to break large projects into manageable pieces, prioritising according to value.
Proven experience with implementing global pricing strategies.
Experience balancing monetization by ads with player experience and value.
ABOUT YOU
You are comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
You'll be used to used to quick iteration and able to drive efficiency in a dynamic environment where innovation is the norm.
You are positive, committed with a "can do" attitude and a flexible approach.
Time management is your strength and you know how to effectively manage multiple priorities, breaking large projects into manageable pieces.
You have exceptional organisation skills and attention to detail, ability to break large projects into manageable pieces, prioritising according to value.
Site Reliability Engineer (Linux/GCP)
My client strongly encourages people of colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply.
An equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team.
In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Helping developers in bringing new projects to life. Find and build new solutions that enable us to achieve our goals: new file storages, video-streaming software, databases etc. both on our bare-metal servers and in Google Cloud
Bringing new technologies to our stack. We strongly believe that one can't have favourite tools. If we feel that the new solution will prove to be beneficial, we at least try it. When we can’t find an existing solution that suits us, we build it from scratch.
Adopting Google Cloud. We are only just getting started, and we need someone who has enough experience to help us to start off on the right foot. This will be your main project.
EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
A number of years of hands-on experience with administering Linux systems.
Deep understanding of how Linux works. You understand what “cs us sy id wa st” are, know how to stop other services from “stealing” the passive ports, and you feel more at home in /proc/ that in /home/.
Python is a must. Ruby, Go, PHP or Kotlin would be a bonus.
Experience with configuration management systems. We use Puppet, but it’s easy to learn.
You know exactly how DNS and TCP/IP work.
You keep yourself updated about new trends in IT.
DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE:
Experience with integrating technology from our adopting list and administering it.
Some knowledge of project management. Projects are our bread and butter, knowing how to set up the deadlines, create WBS and manage requirements helps.
If you can write good documentation and love to do it, you will better hand-off the finished project to support.
Experience with application security. As a growing public company we aim to keep it safe.
Account Executive UK and Europe
Reporting to the VP Sales Europe, the Account Executive, UK and Europe is responsible for expanding market share in the UK and Europe.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
Exceed quarterly and annual revenue goals
Build relationships with key decision-makers in information security departments and IT across a variety of industries.
Sales at CIO / CISO / and Head of Infrastructure level
Present technical and business messaging, presentation, and demonstration
Self-starter with ability to clearly engage a message, generate interest, create meetings, and manage associated pipeline.
Demonstrable track record of closing Enterprise opportunities from $200k to $1m.
The position will require regular travel, as well as the ability to represent our company at events.
Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
Motivated and tenacious individual ready to take a proven technical solution and managed service to market.
Client are an established Gartner top right MQ vendor with a large customer base and strong brand. The role requires a start-up mentality to drive activity to open up new accounts.
Expertise in managing sales opportunities from prospect to closure.
Ability to provide live and web-based demonstrations of the client solution without sales engineer support (though SE support is available as needed)
Excellent negotiation, presentation and communication skills
Capability to present technical information to a variety of audiences
Demonstrated ability to forecast and manage information using SalesForce.com
Ability to manage and cultivate an extensive list of contacts in the information security field
Ability to manage multiple high priority tasks to successful completion
Ability to work in a fast paced, geographically dispersed organisation
Experience of closing business in Europe
Ability to travel regularly across Europe.
Ability to run efficient technical sales process including POC and Close Plans and run cycles in a controlled fashion.
Ability to work a direct touch sales campaign with end user, partner, or system integrator whilst maintaining control and access to end user.
Education and/or Experience:
Bachelor of Arts or Science degree preferred
5 years + successful experience in external sales of information security services or products
Hands-on experience in providing information security services
Experience as a presenter on information security topics at conferences and events preferred.
Knowledge of the sales training and methodologies needed to manage a complex sales cycle to conclusion (TAS / MH / MEDDPIC / KARRASS)
Remote position with 1 - 2 days travel as required.
Product Director
(Mobile App - Revenue / Payments / Billing)
The Director of Revenue role will lead the Revenue collective; a cross-functional team responsible for driving global revenue growth across multiple products. You will have deep knowledge and experience on monetisation, pricing, advertising and payments.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Define and own the global monetisation strategy of the business across all revenue collective teams, including the product, pricing, advertising and payments and billing teams.
Directly manage a team of product, pricing and operations managers and their respective heads of department.
Taking ownership of product innovation and defining opportunities for incremental growth.
Work collaboratively across both product collectives and functional business areas.
Provide mentorship and continue to grow the product and operations teams within the Revenue Collective.
Responsible for ensuring strong levels of governance in relation to working practices between the Revenue Collective and FP&A, Legal and Accounting.
EXPERIENCE
Proven experience working within revenue growth in a high grossing business, major gaming/major social platform.
Have led products across all stages of the product life cycle, and have ideally worked in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Proven experience leading large-scale teams of product/operations managers and functional heads.
Proven experience leading pricing strategies and optimisations.
Deep knowledge of in-app monetisation economics.
With over 700 staff in 10+ countries all working remotely during the time of COVID-19, and working hard to adapt and support our teams during this challenging time, including:-
Flexible working hours.
Streaming free, live yoga & meditation sessions each week, as well as a full weekly timetable of free online exercise classes.
'Random Coffee' - connecting staff across the globe in pairs once a week to get to know each other over a video chat.
'First Fridays' - meal delivery for a remote lunch with your team once a month.
Employee Support Fund for those whose household are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19.
Written resources to guide employees through this challenging time.
They will also take you through a fully digital onboarding process!
Applications from those with diverse backgrounds are actively encouraged!
Senior Product Managers
(Large Scale Mobile App B2C)
My client is looking for Product Managers to lead their Experimentation, Badoo and ...... platforms. As a fully in-house platform that all parts of business heaviy rely on to measure product impact and change, you will be responsible for the platform and further development in alignment with business strategy.
You will overlook the processes and experimentation culture, helping to maintain and raise quality. It's role to use technology to increase people and business efficiency in business decision making at large scale.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITY
Manage cross-functional product development programs, covering a range of team and tools.
Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation phases.
Provide day-to-day coordination and quality assurance for projects and tasks.
Drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions.
Interface with several different Business teams for project requirements and scope.
Help drive product and tooling decisions to align with higher company initiatives.
Work with Product Management and Engineering on or-level strategic planning and delivery.
Define and own metrics and key performance indicators.
Communication and interpersonal experiences, including relationship building and collaboration within cross-functional team.
Help define the roadmap and long term strategy of the team you are working with.
EXPERIENCE
Strong knowledge of A/B testing.
Strong knowledge in analytics, performance metrics, and business acumen.
Two plus years of project/program management experience.
Ability or experience with work at scale / Exposure to large-scale systems.
Organizational and coordination skills along with multitasking abilities to get things done in a fast-paced environment.
Communication skills and experience working with technical managment teams.
Communicate complex information to senior management in a actionable manner.
Product managment experience within an in-house development environment; comfotable communicating with engineers.
ABOUT YOU
You are comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
You'll be used to quick iteration and able to drive efficiency in a dynamic environment where innovation is the norm.
You are positive, committed with a 'can-do' attitude and a flexible approach.
Time management is your strength and you know how to effectively manage multiple priorities, breaking large projects into mnageable pieces.
You hve exceptional organisational skills and attention to detail; ability to break large projects into manaegable pieces, prioritising according to value.
Flexible working hours.
Streaming free, live yoga & meditation sessions each week, as well as a full weekly timetable of free online exercise classes.
'Random Coffee' - connecting staff across the globe in pairs once a week to get to know each other over video chat.
'First Fridays' - meal delivery for a remote lunch with your team once a month.
Employee Support Fund for those whose households are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19
Applications from those with diverse backgrounds are actively encouraged!
Senior Data Scientist
(Python + Productionizing Model + Machine Learning)
My client is looking for a Data Scientist to join their team and assist with using data science to deliver effective results. Together with them you will develop machine learning models to serve a variety of areas within the business; Product, Marketing, Billing teams and so on. With millions of images and messages exchanged on th3eir platform every day, there is a wealth of opportunity to make a real difference in this role. The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen, extensive experience in machine learning applications along with a passion for tech.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITY
EXPERIENCE
Demonstrable experience implementing machine learning models; from initial conception right through to the final productionalized model.
Extremely confident in terms of programming and scripting (strong Python essential).
High familiarity with libraries such as scikit-learn, tensorflow, keras, pandas, numpy.
Strong statistical modelling background.
Python web development (tornado, Flask) experience is desirable.
Ability to combine business intuition with the application of advanced solutions.
A passion for keeping up with the latest ongoings in Data Science and Machine Learning communities.
A curious mind, self-starter and endlessly keen to learn and develop themselves professionally.
Flexible working hours.
Streaming free, live yoga & meditation sessions each week, as well as a full weekly timetable of free online exercise classes.
'Random Coffee' - connecting staff across the globe in pairs once a week to get to know each other over video chat.
'First Fridays' - meal delivery for a remote lunch with your team once a month.
Employee Support Fund for those whose households are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19
Applications from those with diverse backgrounds are actively encouraged!
Software Engineering Manager
(Mobile, Backend, QA and Release Engineering)
My client is looking for and Engineering Manager of the Mobile Core Team, reporting into the Head of Collective. The Mobile Core Team is a cross-functional team composed of senoir engineers with a wealth of experience in Mobile, Backend, QA and Release engineering.
Team's primary goal is to build the best core technology for native applications for both Andriod and iOS and to buiold the best developer experience for all mobile engineers in the company. To achieve this they strive to use the best mix of in-house and off-the-shelf technologies available, while staying pragmatic - when to develop vs when to adopt.
Collaboration is key - staying focused on listening to their internal engineering community, addressing current and longer-term needs, bringing together diverse viewpoints to ultimately deliver solutions to real world challenges and collaboratively driving positive change. The need cross-team collaboration does not end with just mobile, but also includes ITOPS, Server Platform and Release Engineering, QA infrastructure and tooling teams and more.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITY
EXPERIENCE
Experience of people management and coaching cross functional teams.
Experience building empowered and self-organising teams - including recruitment activities.
Experience of applying devops practices and associated tooling / approaches / processes and strong ability to adapt industry practices to specific real world live environments.
Experience owning and leading technical delivery plans and roadmaps.
Experience applying measures to support consistent and continual process improvement.
An understanding of build/deployment pipelines and associated tooling.
Background in engineeering and (preferred) Computer Science degree or similar.
ABOUT YOU
You are passionate about leading, managing and inspiring cross-functional teams.
Your are positive and committed with a 'can-do' attitude and a flexible approach.
You are va self-starter: you thrive on taking ownership of initiatives with limited oversight.
You know how to manage multiple priorities, breaking large projects into manageable pieces.
You have great communication skills, both verbal and written.
You have execellent facilitation skills, you can facilitate meetings and team discussions, involving the whole team in group based decision making.
You demonstrate servant leadership, earning respect from your team and are willing to get your hands dirty to get the job done.
You are comfortable being an agent of cultural and operational change. You empower teams to become self-organising.
You foster a climate of transparency and openness.
Flexible working hours.
Streaming free, live yoga & meditation sessions each week, as well as a full weekly timetable of free online exercise classes.
'Random Coffee' - connecting staff across the globe in pairs once a week to get to know each other over video chat.
'First Fridays' - meal delivery for a remote lunch with your team once a month.
Employee Support Fund for those whose households are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19
Applications from those with diverse backgrounds are actively encouraged!
Identity and Access Management
(IAM) Engineer
My client is looking for an enthusiastic and self motivated, hands-on Identity and Access Management (IAM) Engineer sitting within the Workplace Technology team.
The Workplace Technology team is responsible for providing the right technology tools to enable colleagues globally to do their work effortlessly delivering the best colleague experience. In essence, the role is to make the rest of the colleagues as awesome as possible through the brilliant delivery of usable technology.
Ultimately, they are looking for an individual who is capable of delivering benefit to their stakeholders, improving User Experience, driving value and separating them from their competitors by allowing their colleagues to work, collaborate & innovate in the most effective and frictionless way. As part of the wider Engineering Team, the Workplace technology team design, develop, implement and operate all Identity & Collaboration services.
This role will be based in London, reporting to the Head of Workplace Technology.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITY
As their Identity and Access Management (IAM) engineer, you'll be responsible for the analysis, design, implementation of all layers of IAM applications, including Authorisation/Authentication and Account Creation/Management/Provisioning in data repositories. This position may focus on technical or administrative of IAM or could encompass a mixture of both.
Implementation and continuous improvement of our Identity and access management services in-line with company policies and standards as well a changing technologies and security guidelines.
Design, implement and maintain existing and new technologies to ensure audit and privacy compliance, where appropriate challenge and improve security and technology policies.
Design, implement and maintain IAM architecture to support service integration to support automated user provisioning and de-provisioning.
Drive continuous automation of IAM operations and controls to improve efficiency and security, including Google Cloud Identity, Active Directory.
Troubleshoot and manage the resolution of issues related to identities, systems access accounts, authentication, authorisation, entitlements, and permissions.
Mentor and train junior team members in the development, implementation, review, and testing of IAM technologies.
Management of applications for SSO between their Identity Provider and each application including working with app owners, requirements gathering, documentation and implementation.
Work with information security, compliance, legal and privacy functions to drive culture and behaviours change and provide assurance on effective and secure IAM operations by following defined procedures and challenge insecure behaviours.
Maintaining blueprints for role based access requirements.
Documenting standard operations procedures.
Supporting project requirements related to Identity Access Management.
Performing quarterly compliance checks and supporting audit requests.
EXPERIENCE
Strong domain knowledge of Identity & Access Management tooling) e.g. SAML) and processes) e.g. JML processes, authentication, authorisation).
Strong LDAP directory services experience (e.g. Google Workspace Secure LDAP, OpenLDAP).
Expert level technical skill in Identity and Access Management technologies and systems, including identity and access management (IAM) protocols such as SSO/SAML, OAuth/OIDC, SCIM and 2-step verification, systems including Google Cloud Identity and Active Directory.
Expert knowledge on IAM architecture and integrations.
Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages.
Knowledge of Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and Privileged Access Management (PAM).
Experience with Service Desk ticketing systems such as Jira.
ABOUT YOU
You are comfortable in a fast-paced environment where you communicate daily with world-class talent from our various global teams.
You are positive and committed with a 'can-do' attitude and a flexible approach.
You are a problem solver and a forward thinker.
You are a self-starter: you'll thrive on taking ownership of initiatives with limited oversight.
You have excellent time management and yu know how to manage multiple priorities, breaking large projects into manageable pieces.
You have great communication skills, both verbal and written.
Flexible working hours.
Streaming free, live yoga & meditation sessions each week, as well as a full weekly timetable of free online exercise classes.
'Random Coffee' - connecting staff across the globe in pairs once a week to get to know each other over video chat.
'First Fridays' - meal delivery for a remote lunch with your team once a month.
Employee Support Fund for those whose households are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19
Applications from those with diverse backgrounds are actively encouraged!
iOS Engineer
My client is looking for a talented iOS Engineer to own and drive technical projects from specification through to delivery and beyond. You will impact millions of users, share know-how with the community and experiment a lot. If you get a buzz from taking initiative, redefining expectations but also getting involved in challenging technical debates with the team, then this is your place. This role will be based in London and you will be working as part of our cross-functional team.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITY
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Product-focused iOS application development experience.
Evidence of delivering consumer facing, mass market, networked, high-performance iOS applications available in the App Store.
Up to date with the latest Swift and iOS trends.
Understanding of UIKit, Core Animation, GCD & Networking.
Excellent understanding of design patterns & Objects Oriented Programming.
Understanding of anlytics, remote reporting and measurements.
Experience of working with Continuus Integration (CI) and Unit testing on iOS.
Knowledge of socket based networking desirable.
Experienced performance profiling with instruments in Xcode.
ABOUT YOU
Think, live and breath Swift.
Self-motivated and able to achieve deadlines and work independently.
Love to write clean, reusable code and have a passion for mobile development inside and outside of the office.
Solid communication skills and team-working capability.
Positive and logical approach together with willingness to learn.
Attention to detail and a passion for quality.
Flexible working hours.
Streaming free, live yoga & meditation sessions each week, as well as a full weekly timetable of free online exercise classes.
'Random Coffee' - connecting staff across the globe in pairs once a week to get to know each other over video chat.
'First Fridays' - meal delivery for a remote lunch with your team once a month.
Employee Support Fund for those whose households are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19
Applications from those with diverse backgrounds are actively encouraged!
Senior Android Engineer
My client is looking for a talented Senior Android Engineer to own and drive technical projects from specification through to delivery and beyond. You will impact millions of users, share know-how with the community and experiment a lot. If you get a buzz from taking initiative, redefining expectations but also getting involved in challenging technical debates with the team, then this is your place.
This role will be based in London, reporting to the Mobile Team Lead.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITY
EXPERIENCE
Product-focused Android application development
Portfolio of consumer facing high-performance Android applications available in the Marketplace.
Advanced Android SDK / Kotlin skills.
Strong knowledge of Android API capabilities at different levels, framework components and life-cycles.
Good understanding of design patterns & Object Orientated Programming.
Enthusiastic about teamwork in an AGILE / Scrum environment.
Sound computer science foundations: algorithms, data structures, concurrency, threading, and programming languages (Kotlin and Java).
ABOUT YOU
Self-motivated and able to achieve deadlines and work independently.
You'll love to write clean, reusable code and have a passion for mobile development inside and outside of the office.
Solid communication skills and team-working capability.
Positive and logical approach together with willingness to learn.
Attention to detail and a passion for quality.
Enthusiastic and fun to work with.
A desire to work with a fresh, social digital brand.
Flexible working hours.
Streaming free, live yoga & meditation sessions each week, as well as a full weekly timetable of free online exercise classes.
'Random Coffee' - connecting staff across the globe in pairs once a week to get to know each other over video chat.
'First Fridays' - meal delivery for a remote lunch with your team once a month.
Employee Support Fund for those whose households are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19
Applications from those with diverse backgrounds are actively encouraged!
