Senior Product Manager

UpSlide is the number one productivity solution provider for financial services. Our software dramatically improves the functionality of PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Power BI and enables users at firms like Citi, KPMG, and BNP Paribas to focus on high-value tasks rather than formatting or copy-pasting. We’re scaling up with 160+ employees across our offices in New York, London, Paris (HQ), Singapore, and Berlin.

Our values ✨

Our values guide our approach to work and are at the heart of our recruitment process. To join our team, we look for individuals who value:

• Excellence: We think that every detail counts, and we place great importance on the quality of our deliverables.

• Trust: We are passionate, committed, and free to act with autonomy.

• Happiness at work: We enjoy looking on the bright side and we share our enthusiasm with our colleagues and clients.

The team 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Get ready to dive into our dynamic Product Team, led by our CPO and backed by a talented crew including 1 Head of Product, 3 Product Managers, 1 Technical Product Manager, 2 creative Product Designers, and 2 savvy Product Marketing Managers!

Each PM works with a squad (5 developers per squad). You will be taking over our Financial Advisory squad and working closely with Romain, the Tech Lead of this team.

This squad is strategic for UpSlide. It owns our users’ must-loved and most-used features such as:

• Excel-PowerPoint link recently improved with an Excel Link Manager to manage charts and tables updates for Financial Services Profesionnals

• PowerPoint formatting for heavy PowerPoint users recently improved with a dedicated toolbar

Your responsibilities 🖋️

• Product discovery (40%)

-Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to uncover user pain points, behaviors, and needs. -Lead customer interviews, surveys, and usability tests to validate assumptions.

• Product strategy (20%)

-Build and nurture your product vision based on the data you gathered (from users, your team, data analysis, competitors, market trends, industry best-practices…).

-Turn that into a strategy and a well-thought roadmap: you will make sure that we’re building the right features.

-Make sure your team/stakeholders understand and embrace it through your engaging communication. -Imagine how to expand Upslide AI capabilities into your scope

• Product delivery (40%)

-Work closely with product designers and developers to come up with the best solution to address users’ pain points: you will also make sure that we’re building the feature right.

-Turn your roadmap into a backlog of user stories. Organize and prioritize everything, and explain the rationale behind it to all stakeholders and to your team.

-Ensure that all products shipped by your team are bug-free.

-Ensure other teams (Support, CSM, Product Marketing) have minimum materials to understand and roll out features successfully

Pay and benefits:

The annual salary package for this role in Paris is €60,000 - €80,000. This salary range is inclusive of several career levels at UpSlide and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

You are a great fit if :

• You have +5 years of work experience

• At least a first experience in product management

• You are detailed-oriented and want to build a productivity tool used daily by thousands of users

• You master the tools and processes to run this flow: user feedback, mock-ups, EPICs, user stories…

• You handle ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies, in a prioritized and structured way

• You have great written and verbal communication skills in English and French and know how to communicate with different stakeholders

• You have a genuine interest for AI and how to deploy it on products used by users on a daily basis

• You are familiar with Microsoft 365 (we build on it!)

We’d love it if:

• You experienced the pain of building perfect slides or Excel models in a previous job

• You’ve worked in Financial Services or Banking

• You have previous experience as an AI PM

✨ If you don’t tick all the boxes but you think you’d be a great fit, please apply and tell us why.

Recruitment process

• First interview with Misbah, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager [30’ video or call]

• Interview with Matteo, CPO or Diane, Head of Product [45’ video call]

• Case study and review with Jawad, Senior PM, Romain, Tech Lead, and Diane or Matteo [80’ in person]

• Interview with Julien, CEO [30’ video]

• Meet the team around a coffee (or tea!) 🍵

🚀 We'll conduct a reference check to learn how to help you thrive!

⚡ On average our process lasts 3 weeks.

What we offer

Make a real difference and be at the very centre of a self-funded and growing SaaS company (doubling every two years for the past 10 years)!

✅ General: Tickets restaurants (Swile), healthcare (mutuelle - Alan Blue), transportation (50% reimbursed), holidays (25 vacation days and 8 RTT)

💻 Hybrid work: Beautiful offices. Flexible 2-3days/week hybrid work policy and a €500 WFH equipment budget

💆‍♀️ Wellness package: 50€ per month for physical and mental wellness activities

👶 Parental leave: Paid parental leave for the birthing/non-birthing parent and help for parents of children under seven

🌱 Training & professional development: High-quality programs and continuous training

🌍 International environment: Start-up with five offices (Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Singapore) and users in more than 60 countries

🎉 Company events: Office socials (afterworks, weekly “goûter”, Yoga class every Thursday) and international company events

More about UpSlide

• On top of exciting business challenges in a fast-growing market, you will find a friendly, caring, and challenging culture

• You will be met with opportunities to acquire new skills, learn from others in a multicultural environment, and grow as a person

• UpSlide employees have committed to making a positive impact on the world. We obtained B Corp certification in 2022 with strong commitments toward our employees, community, clients, suppliers, and the environment. UpSlide is now 30% owned by employees
  More info here: upslide.net/en/from-a-to-b-corp-our-mission-for-positive-impact/

• UpSlide was ranked #1 best place to work in 2019 and #1 best place to work in 2020 in the category “best company for remote work”
  More info here: upslide.net/en/happiness-at-work-recipe/

As a B Corp-certified company, we have strong commitments toward our employees, community, clients, suppliers, and the environment. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels welcome. This commitment to diversity and inclusion is applied in our recruitment process and your employee experience once you’ve joined UpSlide ✨