About Bark

Bark is revolutionising the way people find professionals in over 1,000 unique categories. As the UK's largest and fastest-growing services marketplace, we're on a mission to make finding the right professional quick and easy. With a presence in eleven countries and plans for further expansion, joining us at this genuinely exciting time will be a journey like no other.

Our cutting-edge technology ensures that you can always find the best professional for any job. With a talented team of over 200 dedicated individuals, we're committed to providing exceptional service and ensuring that our customers are satisfied every step of the way.

This is an exciting time to join our scaling business, we recently placed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, and previously were 64th in the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing private tech companies in 2023.

As a profitable scale-up, Bark is in a unique position to offer the best of both worlds; the excitement and agility of a start up combined with the financial security and backing of a renowned private equity firm, EMK Capital. You'll have ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation without any of the worry.

About the role

We’re looking for a talented and driven Product Manager to join our ‘Consumer Acquisition’ squad. This role will report into the Product Director for the Buyer side of the marketplace.

Bark is at the start of a transformation from a lead generation platform to a full marketplace, looking to do to services what Amazon did for physical products.

The Acquisition squad forms an integral part of this transformation as we look to diversify our marketing mix away from Google and build a landing experience in our new marketplace that delivers buyer conversion and satisfaction.

You’ll work on products that are key to this transformation, including SEO optimisation of our site, development of CMS systems to enable the creation and management of our landing pages, as well as the design of relevant ‘onward journeys’ from these pages to optimise conversion through the relevant onward user journeys.

You’ll join an existing squad of developers and work closely with a designer to build a great understanding of your users. Given the importance of your work on acquisition, you’ll work closely with the CMO and marketing leadership team to help craft a vision and roadmap for your area. You’ll also work alongside peers in Analytics, Customer Support and other squads (most notably the ‘Search to contact’ team) to ensure success.

We’re already profitable and incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved so far, but we know that most of our work is ahead of us. We have huge aspirations, and our growth plans are product-led, so it’s a great time to join and contribute to revolutionising how people buy and sell services online

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and strategy for your squad, whilst defining and driving success

• Define, maintain and evangelise your Product roadmap and backlog

• Contribute to efficient outcome-centric delivery through clear scoping and diligent discovery and prioritisation

• Collaborate and communicate progress and prioritisation effectively to stakeholders at all levels around the business

• Obsess over your end user, and inspire others to do the same. Use qual and quant inputs to understand them better than anyone

• Take ownership of the impact of your squad - from problem to solution, launch and beyond

Required skills and experience

• Proven track record as a Product Manager in a fast-paced and successful online business

• Good technical understanding of digital marketing and associated technical systems e.g. conversion signal tracking

• Stakeholder management - bridging the gap between product, technology and marketing

• Excellent communicator - you’re able to clearly present your work, explain your thinking and discuss decisions confidently at all levels

• Expert in using both qual and quant data points to form user understanding, conclusions, and guide decision making

• Well-versed in lean approaches and agile methodologies to minimise waste and maximise impact

• A self-starter that is comfortable working autonomously, whilst always remembering collaboration is key to success

• Strong commercial and technical understanding, allowing you to clearly articulate concepts to commercial and non-technical audiences, as well as engineering

• Driven, ambitious and keen to grow with the company

Perks and Benefits

• Fully remote working
• Personal annual L&D Budgets with 600€ to spend on your development
• Being at the forefront of an industry with new and exciting problems to solve

Interview Process

• Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)
• 1st Stage - Interview with Product Manager (30 mins)
• 2nd Stage - Technical Task (120 mins)
• 3rd Stage - Values interview (90 mins)

Diversity Statement

At Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouting about.