About Bark

Bark is an online services marketplace connecting customers with professionals across over 1,000 categories. Operating in nine countries including the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, we're transforming how people find trusted service providers for everything from home improvement to professional services.

Our platform uses cutting-edge technology to match customers with the right professionals quickly and efficiently. With a global team of over 220 people, we're currently undergoing an exciting transformation: migrating from a lead generation model to a full marketplace platform with subscription based pricing.

As a profitable, PE backed scale up (EMK Capital), Bark offers the best of both worlds: the agility and innovation of a fast moving business combined with financial stability and resources for growth. We recently launched our new marketplace model in Australia (Q4 2025) and are preparing for rollout to the UK and US markets in 2026. You'll have genuine ownership, responsibility, and the opportunity to shape our commercial strategy during a pivotal transformation phase with the chance to make your own contribution to our journey.

About the role

We are looking for a gifted Product Owner to join our team and take ownership of delivery for both our Consumer and Professional Apps, across Android and iOS. Your focus will be on building our future, in the form of our Marketplace experience. We see this as a critical part of our business, with ambitious goals for app adoption and contribution as part of our plan.

You’ll join an established squad of Engineers, and your role will be ensuring work is well-defined and prioritised to drive maximum impact. You’ll work closely with both our Product Director and Principal Product Manager, following the strategic direction they set to make sure the Apps fulfill their role as part of Bark’s proposition. 

You’ll collaborate with Product Managers that own slices of our experience, taking work from across our product suite and applying quant and qual insights to ensure we’re building the right things at the right time for our App users. 

Design and Analytics will be key partners in deriving these insights, and you’ll also collaborate with Marketing to ensure our Apps are as successful as they can be. 

You’ll fit right in if you’re data-driven, obsessed with understanding and solving users’ problems and have a real bias to action. We’d love to see someone with experience having done this on native Apps or within a Marketplace before, or with experience building products for small businesses

Responsibilities

• Act as Product Owner within the scrum framework for our App squad

• Apply user insights and our App strategy to effectively prioritise the squad’s work

• Create and maintain a high-quality backlog of well-defined work

• Actively participate in squad ceremonies, communicating this work effectively and helping the team to both deliver and improve

• Define success metrics, and communicate the value the team has delivered

• Represent and evangelise the App within our Product team

Required skills and experience

• Experience as a Product Manager/Owner in a fast-paced and successful online business (App experience/Marketplace experience/small business products all pluses)

• Experience working with Developers, Product Designers and Analysts to deliver outcomes that matter

• 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 maximise impact and minimise waste

• 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

Interview process

• Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)

• 1st Stage - Interview with Product Manager (30 mins)

• 2nd Stage - Product Skills interview (60 minutes)

• Final Stage - Values stage (45 minutes)

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.