The Opportunity
Our mission is to change the way the world works by democratizing AI for every business, and to build a great company that everyone loves being a part of. These two goals haven’t changed since the days when Peak was little more than an idea forming in the heads of our founders Richard, Atul and Dave.
Peak is an AI company that provides the platform, application and services to help businesses harness the potential of AI to grow revenues, increase profits and efficiencies.
It’s an incredibly exciting time here at Peak. Off the back of our $75m Series C funding round in late 2021, led by SoftBank, we're scaling our offering, and putting AI in the hands of even more customers.
We have ambitious plans for the future and that means we're looking to welcome new people to our team. At Peak, culture and success come hand in hand – so creating and protecting a company culture that’s true to our values remains a fundamental aspect of our mission.
The Purpose
Peak is changing the way businesses make decisions by harnessing the power of the Peak platform to build AI solutions. The Peak platform empowers Data Scientists to create solutions that provide business users with superhuman abilities through leveraging data, AI and connecting decision making across business functions. To make this scale at pace, Peak needs solution-focussed product managers who can form a complete product vision for their solution area that will excite both the company and our customers, and who can help turn the inter-connected AI solutions to business problems we deliver today into a cohesive product offering.
The Role
As Applications Product Manager, you will play a critical role in Peak’s mission of democratising AI for every business. Working within Peak Labs, you’ll form part of a high-performing, multi-disciplinary team focused on driving real value for customers and accelerating the way companies around the world utilise and adopt AI.
In this role, you will be responsible for discovering, defining and driving execution of the application roadmap. This will involve identifying the most valuable opportunities and collaborating with teams from across the business to deliver the best solutions. This will require you to interact with multiple stakeholders across the business, but also provide you with ample opportunity to learn and build your skillset as part of a high-performing, growth-minded culture.
You will act as a key decision maker on how product is marketed and shipped at Peak. You will work closely with our GTM and sales teams to drive business results and maximise customer satisfaction.
With applications forming a core part of Peak’s product offering, you will be key in driving a paradigm shift in how companies make decisions, realise value and accelerate transformation through AI.
Key Responsibilities
- Discover the most valuable opportunities, and collaborate with our customers and various functions across the business including Data Science, GTM, Sales, and Marketing, to develop and launch powerful products and capabilities to market
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, influencing decision making throughout the product life cycle
- Own and nurture a product culture within the Labs product team and wider product organisation
- Lead a cross-functional squad comprised of machine learning engineers, data scientists and product designers, and demonstrate agile best practices
- Prioritise and own the product roadmap & backlog for one or more Peak applications
- Define and drive the product vision and strategy for your product area, working with leadership and your team to set objectives and key results that drive Peak to valuable outcomes
- Lead ideation, testing & learning through rapid prototyping and user testing
- Accelerate value add from Peak applications and drive adoption
- Research and understand market trends, competitors and new technologies to identify new capabilities with data science research teams.
Personal Skills
- Open - Keen on hearing feedback and input from others.
- Driven - A strong desire to solve really complex problems.
- Curious - Interested in finding new ways to solve challenges that people have ignored, or have considered to be too complex.
- Smart - Will love making complex things simple for people to relate to and understand.
- Responsible - Take pride in your work.
Ideal experience
- Prior experience working as a Product Manager is essential, preferably from a product-led B2B SaaS company
- Subject matter expertise in the value chains of physical product companies would be highly advantageous, particularly inventory and pricing optimisation
- Have worked with or in close proximity to technical teams working to solve complex problems and, essentially, be able to simplify and communicate to non-technical teams
- Proven track record of using data and insights to influence decision making and drive and measure incremental value
- Experience with collaborating and managing exec level stakeholders
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package.
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 with service, plus eight flexible bank holidays.
- Share options for everyone, when we win, we all win.
- A world class enhanced parental leave
- Hybrid working model and flexible hours (3 days onsite in Manchester, 2 days remote)
- Opportunity to work from anywhere in the world for one month of the year, after one year’s service.
- Opportunity to spend one day volunteering.
- Headspace and Spill app subscriptions to support your mental health and wellbeing.
- Direct access to a GP as well as mental health support including counselling, through WeCare, for you, your partner and children.
- Subsidised gym membership, Peak run club and online yoga, boxing and HIIT classes.
- Regular company and team days along with social activities.
- Cycle to work initiative and public transport season ticket loans.
Diversity, Equity & inclusion
We’re here to change the way the world works and build an amazing company that everyone loves being part of. We know diverse perspectives and experiences result in better solutions, which is why we want all of our Peakers to bring their authentic selves to work.
We’ve been striving to build a diverse and inclusive team from the outset. It’s a continuous journey, and there’s more we can do – but we’re proud of what we’ve achieved so far, which is ahead of the tech industry standard.
We’ve set targets in relation to gender and ethnicity, for now, but we know there’s more to diversity than just these two areas. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment for those of all ages, religions, sexual orientations, socio-economic status and for those with disabilities.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer – a UK Government certification for organizations actively taking steps to attract, recruit and retain persons with disabilities. If you need any reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know.
About Peak
Founded in Manchester in 2015 by Richard Potter, David Leitch and Atul Sharma, Peak is on a mission to change the way the world works by putting AI applications in the hands of business teams.
Peak’s AI platform is used by leading brands including Nike, Palace, PepsiCo, KFC and Sika, and provides a broad feature set that enables technical and commercial teams to build, deploy and manage AI applications at scale. The platform features a library of pre-built AI applications that rapidly create real value across a range of business functions.
In August 2021, Peak announced a $75m Series C funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund II. The same year, it received a Best Companies 3-star accreditation, which recognizes extraordinary levels of employee engagement, and was ranked by The Sunday Times as one of the Best 100 Companies to Work For in 2020 and again by Best Companies in 2021 and 2022. This year Peak was also recognized as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators.
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