Product Manager (Contract) - UK/Europe Remote

📅 Contract Details

• Start Date: Monday 15th September (or before)
• End Date: Friday 12th December (with possibility of extension)

At Spotted Zebra, we're revolutionising how the world's leading organisations build future-ready teams. We're an award-winning Series A company whose Interview Intelligence and Assessment platform combines cutting-edge skills science with responsible AI to help enterprises make better, more objective hiring decisions with confidence every time.

What we do: We're redefining how great teams are built, helping organisations identify, evaluate, and secure the right talent with precision and speed. Our comprehensive platform features AI-powered interview tools, validated blended assessments, and industry-leading skills science that transforms conversations into meaningful insights and empowers data-driven decisions that drive real impact.

The numbers that matter: 

 🚀 25% faster time to hire
⚡ 20% improved speed to competence
💰 8x return on investment

Who's already on board: Forward-thinking teams at Virgin Media O2, Lidl, Merlin Entertainments, AWE, and Paramount trust us to help them spot the right hire every time and deliver hiring magic.

Why this matters: We're not just another HR tech company. We're solving one of the biggest challenges facing every growing business: finding and hiring exceptional people, fast. Our platform doesn't just assess candidates - it predicts success and empowers talent teams with AI tools they love.

Fun fact: A group of zebras is called a dazzle – and ours truly is dazzling!

We create a culture in which our team thrives and gallops ahead.

As we roam free and empower our dazzle, we gallop ahead on the journey to achieving our goals. We understand this journey will pose challenges along the way, yet we brighten the trail with our positive mindset and encouragement of others. The dazzle continuously moves, gaining knowledge and skills so that we can graze new grounds.

You’ll be at the heart of our AI-Augmented Delivery (AAD) crew, helping to shape how we imagine, build, and validate products in this new paradigm. This is a unique opportunity to not only bring a new product to life, but also to pioneer the very ways in which product teams of the future will operate with AI woven into every step.

• Phase 1 (first 4 weeks): You’ll lead discovery and ideation for an agentic feature of our recruiter-focused product, while the engineering crew delivers the first phase of the core product (an AI Notetaker). You’ll spend time digging into user problems, framing opportunities, and testing bold ideas at speed. You’ll run lightweight experiments, explore workflows, and translate insights into clear hypotheses that set the direction for the team. By the end of this phase, you’ll have sharpened the vision for what we build next and created the momentum to move fast into delivery.
• Phase 2 (next 6 weeks): You’ll shift gears into making it real. Working side by side with a part-time designer and two engineers, you’ll take concepts from discovery into delivery. You’ll own prioritisation, break down complex ideas into lean, testable increments, and map user journeys, use cases, and edge cases to ensure we’re solving the right problems with clarity. You’ll collaborate daily with the crew to balance ambition with pragmatism, keeping us laser-focused on delivering value quickly. And as we ship at speed, you’ll also play a hands-on role in quality control, making sure what we deliver is not just fast, but trusted and impactful.
  

Throughout both phases, you’ll be empowered to make decisions, cut through ambiguity, and keep us moving forward at pace. You’ll have the space to experiment with AI-augmented workflows and lean practices, shaping not just what we deliver but how we deliver it. This means pushing the boundaries of product management itself, reducing coordination costs, testing new ways of working, and proving that small, empowered crews can deliver outsized impact. Above all, you’ll keep users at the centre of every decision, ensuring the product we build is both innovative and deeply valuable

• Proven experience leading end-to-end product management across complex, web-based SaaS products
• Strong execution and delivery skills, with a track record of shipping impactful products at pace in startup or scaleup environments
• Skilled in discovery, able to frame problems clearly, validate assumptions with users, and test ideas fast through data and prototypes
• Experience collaborating closely with engineers and designers in small teams
• Comfortable operating in a lean, high-autonomy environment, where prioritisation and trade-offs must be made quickly
• Ability to balance user needs, commercial priorities, and technical feasibility, and to define clear, outcome-focused objectives for the team and organise the delivery 
• Comfortable creating wireframes, user flows, and light UX designs using a design system, bridging product thinking with design execution.
• Experience delivering AI features within SaaS products
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to influence and inspire at all levels
• A curious, resourceful, and adaptable thinker who thrives in ambiguity and is excited about shaping how AI will transform product development and delivery

🦓 Collaborating with a small, dynamic squad of curious and ambitious people

🚀 working at the frontier of AI-Augmented Delivery (AAD)

🏠 Remote-first work environment

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion 

At Spotted Zebra, we welcome people of all stripes. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and an inclusive and diverse culture.

We believe that each and every one of us possesses an extraordinary set of skills and abilities, waiting to be discovered, nurtured, and harnessed for the benefit of all.

We are a team. And no matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability, we will empower you to unleash your superpower to help us create a world where everyone is able to utilise their unique blend of skills and abilities to contribute to the greater good.

Everyone is unique and we encourage you to let us know in your application, or share with your recruiter directly, if there is anything we can do to make your interview experience with us more comfortable and positive.

At Spotted Zebra, everyone is welcome. So even if you don't meet all the requirements, we would still love to hear from you. We are always keen to speak with people who are passionate about our mission

🦓 Ready to gallop ahead with us? We're a team that moves fast, thinks big, and isn't afraid to challenge how things have always been done. If you're excited about using AI and skills science to transform how the world hires, apply now and a member of our dazzle will be in touch!