Introduction
At Poppulo, we’re working on what’s next in Employee Experience and Communications. As a pioneer in this industry, we focus on engaging, aligning and activating customers employees at enterprise scale reaching over 40M employees globally.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead on some of our key product initiatives. This is a 12 month role providing maternity cover within the Product Management team.
This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role responsible for shaping product direction, driving execution, and delivering measurable outcomes at scale. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, influence company-wide priorities, and play a key role in defining how Poppulo evolves its platform to meet the needs of modern enterprises.
You will partner closely with senior stakeholders across engineering, design, GTM, and customer teams to deliver products that drive customer value and business growth.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy
- Define and articulate a compelling product vision aligned with company objectives
- Understand customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape
- Translate insights into clear strategic direction and product investments
- Identify opportunities for product innovation and differentiation to maintain a competitive edge.
- Make informed trade-offs balancing customer value, technical constraints, and business impact
Execution Excellence
- Lead end-to-end product delivery from discovery through launch partnering closely with engineering and design to ensure clarity, focus, and quality
- Define high-quality product requirements, user stories, and success criteria
- Define and own product roadmaps and backlog
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and trade-offs
- Lead influence and align stakeholder and cross-functional teams without direct authority
- Communicate effectively with Product leadership on progress, risks, and outcomes
Go-to-Market
- Partner with GTM teams to define positioning, packaging, and pricing inputs
- Support successful product launches and drive adoption at scale
- Ensure alignment between product strategy and revenue growth objectives
- Drive internal enablement to ensure teams can effectively sell, support, and deliver the product
Technical Skills / Competencies
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver results
- Data-oriented, with proven ability to leverage analytics to inform product strategy and prioritize features
- Passion for innovation with a relentless drive to deliver best-in-class products that delight customers and drive business growth
- Exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on identifying opportunities and mitigating risks
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Sound judgment and willingness to make timely decisions
- Ability to switch seamlessly between creative and analytical thinking
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, web development, or related field (or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience/training)
- 5+ yrs Product Management experience in a SaaS or equivalent organization working directly with customers to understand their problems
- Experience in an agile software development environment with a proven track record in successful product delivery
- Experience collaborating with customers, sales, customer success, support, professional services, security, marketing, and other teams at a high-growth SaaS technology company
- Experience directly or indirectly leading and influencing teams to solve complex problems
- Experience working in a multi-location environment across time zones
Why Join Us?
- An excellent workplace culture.
- Competitive salary with performance-related bonuses.
- Comprehensive medical insurance.
- Flexible working hours.
- Educational assistance programs.
- In-house soft skills training.
Who We Are
Named a Great Place to Work for seven consecutive years (2015–2021), Poppulo is one of Ireland’s fastest-growing technology companies. Our innovative communication software meets the needs of internal communicators in leading enterprises worldwide. Trusted by over 400 blue-chip and FTSE 100 organizations, including Boston Scientific, Telefonica, Rolls-Royce, Nestlé, Experian, and Johnson Controls, we help organizations inform, engage, and inspire their employees.
Join a company where our values—High Standards as Standard, Together We’re Better, Adapt to Succeed, Honesty Throughout, Be the Example, Don’t Just Work… Learn, and GET IT DONE—are at the heart of everything we do.
Poppulo is an equal opportunity employer.
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Top Skills
What We Do
Poppulo is the global leader in employee communications technology. Our pioneering software and expert advisory services are transforming internal communications, creating more connected, aligned and successful organizations all over the world. We chose our name - which comes from the Latin for people - because people are at the heart of everything we do, and we believe that an engaged workforce aligned behind a common purpose can transform the performance of any organization. That belief gives us our core purpose and mission: to create groundbreaking products and services that make organizations great by releasing the power of their people and putting employee communications at the heart of organizations, where it belongs. We like to call it success from within, and here's to yours! It’s the Poppulo effect.
