Senior Product Manager

Who We Are ⚡

We're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩), Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.

What We Build 🏗️

Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.

📚Read more about our story here: www.zincwork.com/mission

What We Value 🪴

🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.

What About This Role? 💼

⚡️ A culture that prioritises ownership, innovation, and impact.

⚡️ Opportunities to work on bleeding-edge technology like AI and LLMs.

⚡️ Direct collaboration with our CEO and senior leadership.

⚡️ A chance to make a tangible mark on a fast-scaling, Series A company.

⚡️ An opportunity to take on a more strategic role that will propell your career as a Product Manager.


✅ Product Managers at Zinc:

• Are strategic
• Sole problem owners
• Have direct customer relationships 🫂
• Own the Objective roadmap. 🗺️
• Empowered to access all data
• Explore bleeding edge technology: LLM's.
  
  ❌ Product Managers at Zinc don't:
  

• Own delivery
• Write user stories 📚
• Write super detailed, long PRD's
• Work to business driven deadlines
  
  🚀 We have super empowered engineers who write tickets and designers that own the solution, which gives you the space to hone the problem & strategy. 🚀

Requirements

📍Hybrid, Old Street, LDN

We appreciate the value of in person connection with colleagues and flexible working for our employees. We operate a hybrid model with 2 days a week in office, Mondays and Thursdays.

💸 Salary - £70,000

You Have 🛠️

Product Sense 🧠
Seasoned product leadership: 3-5 years in Product Management, ideally in B2B SaaS environments.

Product Strategy
To guide Zinc’s long-term vision, prioritising initiatives that support sustainable growth beyond short-term wins.

Data Analysis 📈
To assess and validate objectives with measurable outcomes, ensuring the product’s success is data-driven.

Interviewing Skills
To effectively gather valuable customer insights and translate them into actionable product direction.

You Are 🧩

Pragmatic
To balance ambition with feasibility, delivering impactful solutions within available resources and timelines.

Empathetic 👯‍♂️
To understand and advocate for customer and team needs, ensuring the product addresses real pain points.

Autonomous
To independently drive projects and make informed decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Communicative
To facilitate collaboration, pitch ideas clearly, and maintain alignment across teams and with stakeholders.

Interview Process 🤩⚡️💎

⚖️ Throughout the interview process, you will be assessed directly inline with the requirements above.

1. One-sided video interview with an introduction from Gabi, Senior Product Manager. (15 mins) (**Please keep an eye out for this in your junk inbox**)

2. Phone call with Bel, Talent Lead (5 minutes)

3. Interview with & Jess, Design Lead & Gabi, Senior Product Manager (30mins)

⚡️⚡️⚡️Zinc Preview - Pre-final stage reference's with Zinc ⚡️⚡️⚡️

4. Final In-person interview with Task with Luke, CEO & Founder, Joe, Senior Product Designer & Han, Product Designer (1 hour)

🤖 Important Notice: Our recruitment process does not involve AI-driven automated screening.

Benefits

What we offer 🍉

Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring

• 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
• £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
• Early finish Fridays (16:00)
• Yearly company retreat
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
• Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
• Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
• Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
• Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
• Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
• Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
• Celebrated Zinc anniversaries