Product Manager, Websales & Comparison Engines

Context of the position 

The Product Manager is integrated into the Websales & Comparison engines Team in Paris. 

You coordinate a team of 4 developers and 1 product designer to create the best product to help users choose and subscribe their home contracts (energy, insurance, telecom) online. 

Your product perimeter encompasses the energy comparison tool selectra.info/energie (and its international versions) as well as the telecom and insurance comparison tools. You’ll sit right on the edge of business and technology.

Outcomes to be accomplished Outcome 1 : Driving the online comparator and online subscription strategy

• Learning and analyzing about the market, the customers, Selectra’s business and data.
• Growing a strategic vision for your products in coordination with the Chief Product Officer and the general management

Outcome 2 : Suggest and try out new ideas to increase the comparison engines conversion rate, and increase online revenues

• Applying discovery techniques to understand customers’ needs, figure out which features are the most useful and make sure that each and every story entering the backlog is really worth coding. 
• Following the product culture methodology to run A/B tests with prototypes and make decisions based on data

Outcome 3 : Coordinate the development of our comparators, and of new comparators in our different markets

• Working with engineers and designers to create the best comparison engines and act as a product owner as a role defined in Agile methodology to plan and organize delivery sprints

Outcome 4 : Support the other Squads or Teams which depend on offer data by delivering and maintaining offers APIs on our different markets

• Our comparison engines have a dual purpose: they are a product which users can use to compare offers; and they are also the repository of offers; which are made available to many different teams & services (examples: our websites, to display dynamically generated offer tables; our software used by the telesales team, to calculate the monthly payment).
• As PM of our Comparison Engines, you will have to grow and maintain with your Engineers a vision of how those offer data should be housed in our database; and prioritize & answer queries made by other teams regarding that.

Our expectations

We expect you to take strong leadership over your business line and to feel empowered to make the right choices to reach the objectives and key results which you set to yourself, while listening to stakeholders’ inputs.

At Selectra, we expect our PMs to:

• grow a strategic vision on their Product;
• propose and negotiate every quarter OKRs, and then deliver;
• on a day to day basis, manage the discovery and delivery; knowing that we organize our work in sprints with the Developers and the Product Designer;
• report on a regular basis to the CPO and Management about the progress of your Squad.

More broadly, we expect you to:

1. Focus on outcomes rather than outputs
2. Be truly responsible for making sure that what goes into the backlog is really worth building
3. Be a strong leader, not a weak requirements gatherer
4. Be passionate about solving customer problems
5. Be truly knowledgeable about customers, data, business and market
6. Be creative / smart / resourceful
7. Involve product designer and engineers in discovery
8. Be a good product owner (as a role in agile methodology) 

Profile

You graduated from one of the best business or engineering schools, Sciences Po Paris or university equivalent and recognize yourself in the following:
 

• Ideally with an initial experience (in product management is a huge plus) with an affinity for the tech/digital environment or UX/UI 
• Fluency in English and in French is essential for this role, any other language is a plus like spanish. 
• Fit competencies:
  • At Selectra, we’re looking for efficient and organized people. We work in a fast-paced environment, where our no-meeting policy comes first. 
  • You are proactive and always anticipate finding solutions for all kind of possible problems.
  • Creativity / Innovation - You are a creative person and you are recognized for your sense of innovation by your colleagues and friends.
  • We expect you to be a team-player and to actively listen and understand your coworkers’ viewpoints.
  • You have strong analytical and problem solving skills also excellent communication and leadership skills. 
  • You are passionate about solving problems and have an entrepreneurial, and responsible. 

Terms and conditions

• Location: Paris
• Contract type: CDI
• Desired start date : ASAP
• Range salary : depending on the profile

Why Selectra? 

• You’ll benefit from the flexibility and reactivity of a company with a start-up spirit (flat hierarchy, chill environment) 
• A truly international company: we count more than 20 nationalities and make sure you can talk with everyone by offering free language classes! 
• Company events: we work hard and love to celebrate once work is done! We organize monthly team events as well as 3 company-wide afterworks per year.
• You’ll have responsibilities within a dynamic team, here to train and assist you when needed
• We care about your health and wellbeing: 
  • But especially, a work environment where we never let unhealthy HR situations unattended.

Company overview

Selectra works hard to make the world cheaper, greener and simpler by offering home contracts comparison, subscription and management services. Initially targeting energy price comparison, Selectra extended its focus to broadband and mobile plans as well as to insurance and banking. In the long run, Selectra aims at becoming the spontaneous choice of consumers willing to gather all of their home contracts and recurring expenses into a single powerful management tool.

With over 1700 team members in 17 countries around the world, and over 409 millions visitors on its websites in 2022, Selectra is a leading European startup. It has been ranked #180 fastest-growing French startup by LesEchos in 2022 and has been listed on multiple occasions in the Financial Times ranking of Europe’s fastest-growing companies.

Working at Selectra is a stimulating experience as we try to only hire humble individuals having in common a real passion for their job as well as outstanding skills in their area of expertise. Age and experience don’t count as much as fast learning skills at Selectra, where young graduates often occupy top management positions. We strive to stay away from frequent work cultures’ flaws (useless meetings, bureaucracy, slowness...). We never leave unhealthy situations unattended. In a nutshell, we create the conditions for a serene work environment where being kind and helpful to each other comes naturally, which we believe is a condition to attract the best talents and achieve high performance. 

Recruitment process

• First HR interview phone call
• Case study (around 2 hours)
• Interview with Thomas Véron, CPO 
• Interview with Florian Leblois, Lead Product designer and Cyprien Roche ,Product manager 
• Response to your application within 2 weeks maximum.

No consideration of gender, age, skin color, sexual orientation or other discriminatory reasons will interfere with the selection process at Selectra.

We inform you that the data concerning you are computerized and treated confidentially. Your data will be kept for up to three years after you have submitted your application. Only persons employed in the human resources department will be able to access your data for strictly internal purposes. You can access, correct or delete your data by contacting [email protected]