What You’ll Do - Lead Core Product Experience
- Own the strategy and roadmap for the core end-to-end member experience, from onboarding to repeat sits, enabled by an app first experience.
- Evolve the app as our primary engagement channel, ensuring high-quality, intuitive, and delightful experiences across critical journeys (activation, booking, in-sit management, community sharing).
Drive Product Health & Member Success
- Establish and monitor key product health metrics (activation, retention, satisfaction, NPS, success rates).
- Own and lead on performance with the ability to forecast and drive impact of key health metrics
- Champion continuous improvements to reduce friction, enhance trust, and increase sit frequency and quality.
- Embed strong data and experimentation culture across the team to drive decisions.
Fuel Earned Virality & Advocacy
- Design and deliver product experiences so valuable, intuitive, or emotionally resonant that members naturally want to share them. Focus on solving real member problems in ways that surprise, delight, and get people talking -- earning word-of-mouth through trust, usefulness, and joy.
- Collaborate with Marketing to amplify authentic member stories and moments in the product experience, and support community-driven advocacy through meaningful in-product touchpoints.
- Build and oversee execution roadmaps that align with our broader product strategy.
Growth & CLTV Optimisation
- Collaborate on pricing, packaging, and monetization strategies to improve renewal rates and maximize member lifetime value.
- Lead initiatives that connect core experience improvements directly to commercial outcomes (e.g., increased sits, higher membership engagement, stronger advocacy-driven acquisition).
Leadership & Team Development
- Build, mentor, and coach a team of high-performing product managers; foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and impact.
- Work cross-functionally with a senior leadership team of design, engineering, data science, and marketing to deliver world-class product experiences.
- Represent the core product experience trading and performance to the exec, driving commercial and product performance
- Bring Director-level strategic thinking to team leadership while staying hands-on to guide execution.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven experience at Director level (or equivalent) in high-growth B2C environments, ideally with marketplace and subscription models in an international context.
- Strong app product expertise, with a track record of scaling mobile-first experiences and driving deep engagement.
- Expertise in growth modeling, data analysis, and using quantitative insights to guide product strategy, testing and prioritisation.
- Deep understanding of customer lifecycle, from activation and adoption to retention and advocacy.
- Demonstrated success driving product health initiatives and connecting them to commercial and user outcomes.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing product teams and working effectively in cross-functional, collaborative environments.
- Strong ability to balance strategic vision with execution and get things shipped.
- Passion for community-driven products, user trust, and brand advocacy.
- Excellent communication skills; ability to influence at executive level and inspire teams.
What We Do
TrustedHousesitters is a global marketplace that is disrupting both the pet care and travel industries. We connect a community of home and pet owners with sitters to solve a common two-sided problem - pet care and cost effective travel. Our business model means that customers join for one annual fee. After that, sits take place as a trust-based, money-free exchange that sees owners enjoy worry-free travel while our sitters enjoy the company of pets and unlock a world of unique accommodation.
We enjoy exceptional customer retention rates driven by the fact that our owners and sitters realise the amazing value and incredible experiences we can facilitate.
We also have more five star reviews on Trustpilot than any other pet care or travel company.
We’ve helped facilitate over 2m nights of pet sitting, with members in over 140 countries, saving them over £150m in accommodation and pet care costs to date.
We’re currently part of the Upscale 5.0 programme operated by Technation, the leading growth programme for the 30 most promising scale-ups in the country. We're on this programme because we pride ourselves on having a very strong focus on creating fabulous product experiences for our customers, taking them to market in an innovative way, and providing outstanding service.
We are transforming the pet care and travel landscape. We believe we offer the best solution and our team are united by our commitment to delivering an enriching experience for our customers and having a positive impact on the lives of their pets