Senior Product Manager – Engagement

Full-Time Anywhere
Memrise is an award-winning language learning system which combines cognitive science, entertaining content and advanced tech to empower our millions of users with linguistic confidence in just a few months of learning.We were awarded “Best App of 2017” at Google I/O and featured prominently this year at Apple’s WWDC. We work closely with both Google and Apple and are one of the top go-to developer partners when they launch new features on iOS and Android.

We recently secured Series B funding and have ambitious plans for the future. From growing our user base, to improving our product, there is a lot of work to do to take Memrise to the next level.

Our goal is to become the world’s most entertaining learning app, and to achieve this we need your help. Our Engagement Squad needs a creative and visionary leader who can help the team transform our Product into something irresistibly entertaining and enriching, that will encourage users to learn something new every day. If you’re a Senior Product Manager with a track record of improving retention and engagement in entertainment mobile products, we want to hear from you.

In this job you will

  • Lead the Engagement Squad, a team of passionate and dedicated developers, designers and analysts
  • Brainstorm, test and implement new ways to engage our users
  • Prioritise the work of the Engagement squad to deliver towards a long-term vision
  • Provide leadership and help forge a strong team ethic, stay flexible and embrace change
  • Employ excellent analytical sense and appropriate experimental methodologies to define, explore and inform solutions to product needs
  • Collaborate with other squads to deliver effective work towards the larger product vision
  • Meet business objectives and targets while delighting our users
  • Deliver autonomous work in great alignment with the needs of the larger organisation

REQUIREMENTS

Get in touch if you

  • Have a track record of radically improving retention and engagement metrics in entertainment mobile products (ideally games)
  • Have a visionary and creative mindset (T-shaped along data, business and tech)
  • Have high emotional intelligence and are excellent at management, both upwards and downwards
  • Have significant experience in B2C product management
  • Are able to encourage great work with both extremely creative and methodological people
  • Have a proven track record of leading a team and delivering successful results
  • Understand the technical architecture of modern consumer mobile and web apps
  • Have experience in running effective experiments and feature tests

Nice to Have:

  • Capable project manager/producer
  • Background in gaming, entertainment or ed-tech
  • Have experience working in a start-up or scale-up environment
  • Passion for languages and creating new ways to learn them

If you aren’t completely confident that you fit our exact criteria, please get in touch immediately. Humility is a wonderful thing and we’re not interested in hiring ‘rockstars’ or ‘ninjas’. And we’re at least as interested in character as in talent.