Senior Product Manager (Sponsored Placements and Ads)

Senior Product Manager (Sponsored Placements and Ads)

Checkatrade – the trusted foundation of every home

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Product Manager to join us and drive the creation of new revenue streams beyond our core membership here at Checkatrade. You will have the opportunity to develop innovative products that empower our members and partners to grow their businesses and highlight high-performing trades. With a strong reputation for delivering exceptional results to consumers, Do you have what it takes to help us accelerate our growth and be the trusted foundation of every home? Great! We’d love to hear from you.

Location: Kings Cross, London or Lakeside, Portsmouth. Hybrid working applies with 3 days in the office.

Where do you fit in?

 We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the launch and development of a sponsored listing model. This will be heavily focused on creating a new revenue stream for on-platform advertising. This role offers huge growth potential, as you’ll drive high click-through rates by ensuring ads are highly relevant to our customers. You’ll have the opportunity to rapidly test new propositions, refine them for Product-Market fit while collaborating closely with developers, UX, researchers and data analysts. You will manage the workload of a squad of developers and maintain a develop backlog while working closely with key stakeholders. This includes the Trade Innovation and Engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in ad-tech and a proven track record in 0-1 product development, from concept to launch.

What’s in it for you?

• An exciting new role to strengthen our go to market approach and lead new initiatives within the business
• A fast-moving scale-up business, with committed investors, ambitious plans and a clear roadmap on how we get there.
• A brilliant product and tech community of over 100 passionate and talented engineers, designers and product managers – all working in-house!

We are an equal opportunities employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

What do you need to succeed?

• Experience within ad-tech, ideally within a marketplace environment, with a proven ability to navigate and innovate within this space
• Proven experience in 0-1 product development
• Strong ability to manage developers
• Ability to collaborate with colleagues from various disciplines including analytics, creative, technical and operations
• Demonstrated track record of analysing data to make recommendations

We believe in the power of homes to improve lives, support livelihoods, and build communities. That’s why our mission is to be the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with the trades and tools to make home improvements easy. 

Established in 1998, we’ve built a UK leading brand, expanded our trade base, and seen record levels of consumer demand – but this is just a start!  We are excited about the unique opportunity ahead of us to deliver unparalleled growth while strengthening our position as a UK leading marketplace for home improvements and repairs.  

Our values are who we are and what we do. As a collective we are all in and moving at pace. We have a bias for action and are always customer obsessed. We are innately ambitious and think big and bold. And we always do the right thing by our customers and our team.

So, if you want to be part of a forward-thinking, values driven business that is truly going places - then maybe this is the place for you?