Product Owner (12 month contract)
We’re UserTesting, a leader in experience research and insights; we believe the path to human understanding and great experiences start with a shared understanding—seeing and hearing how another person engages with the world around them and taking in their perspective. Working at UserTesting, you will be empowered to help organizations discover the human side of business–transforming how they work, collaborate, innovate, and bring new products and experiences to market. This is what inspires us, and it’s how we enable companies to connect with their audiences naturally and organically through an experience that is uniquely, and intentionally human.
A trusted company by top brands for 15+ years, UserTesting, recently merged with UserZoom, has over 3,400 customers in 50 countries, including 75 of the Fortune 100 companies. Joining our team means being part of a passionate group focused on transforming how companies learn from and understand their customers. Come join us and help us build the engine for human understanding.
About the Team
You will be partnering with the Engineering, Design, and Research teams to ensure the right definition and delivery for every initiative. You will work with other Product Managers to establish goals early in the life cycle, define key metrics and continuously communicate the state of planning, delivery, and risk. You will be building products that empower UserTesting’s customers to build amazing experiences for their customers. This team rolls their sleeves up and dreams big while delivering value predictably.The Opportunity:
As a Product Owner at UserTesting, you'll be responsible for managing and driving your product area's execution to ensure our product continues exceeding our customers' expectations. This role is for a strong communicator who can rally the team behind the compelling vision for our product. You should be good at saying no and understanding the balance between building and shipping great products. You'll need to be analytical and not release into a vacuum. This means defining and tracking important business and usage data to measure the results for your product areas. You'll be working closely with design, engineering, marketing and customer support to drive large product initiatives from inception through development, release and beyond to ensure we continue delivering amazing customer experiences.
- Manage the priorities throughout their planning, development and release cycles.
- Deeply understand the needs of our awesome customers.
- Lead the product team through rapid product cycles to deliver new features our customers will love.
- Be the voice of the customer (that means both current and future) in all aspects of product development and delivery.
- Collaborate with functional groups across the company, including design, engineering, marketing, support, operations, etc., to deliver an awesome product.
- Keep one eye on our fast-moving market to remain well positioned.
- Drive alignment and buy-in at all company levels to rally everyone around your vision.
What we're looking for:
- Solid experience as a product manager or product owner, especially in an agile SaaS environment.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles as they relate to web applications. Bonus for work experience in UI/UX design.
- Proven track record for developing, managing, and launching web-based software products.
- Strong technical and data-analysis skills.
- Agile, adaptable and capable of delivering new products and features iteratively.
- Familiarity with various aspects of Lean methodologies, including customer development, hypothesis-driven planning, and evidence-led product design.
- Experience working in a data-driven environment, ideally with qualitative and quantitative research experience.
- Experience with agile development methodologies.
Don’t meet every single requirement but excited about the role? We encourage you to apply! Research show us that certain demographics are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the requirements, but you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. We know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.
Perks and Benefits
- Private medical and dental
- Monthly wellness and telecommunications reimbursements
- Work from home office equipment stipend
- Professional development stipend
- Flexible hours
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Your Birthday off!
- Mental Wellness Employee Assistance Program
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee Referral Programme
- Paid quarterly volunteering days and Charity donation matching via our UT Cares Volunteers and Charitable Giving Committee
- Enhanced family leave
To learn more about our team, culture, and customers, check out our careers page, company blog, and press/awards. Aside from a great work environment and the opportunity to make an impact, we’re also growing the team quickly–join us!
At UserTesting, we are committed to providing more inclusive and accessible experiences for our candidates. We pride ourselves on building empathy; diverse perspectives, which we believe are the key values to creating exceptional experiences for everyone. Our commitment to providing accessible experiences is driven by this belief and our core values. If you require any accommodations or have any specific requests about how we could tailor our interview process to better suit your needs please contact us on: talentexperience@usertesting.com.If you need to speak to someone please ask!
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