Lead Product Manager

This role owns one of the most business-critical products in our portfolio — one that plays a direct role in our growth, retention, and competitive position. We're hiring a Lead Product Manager to own its strategy and roadmap, working directly with executive leadership, enterprise customers, and cross-functional teams across engineering, design, and revenue. This is a senior, high-autonomy role reporting to the VP of Product; you will set direction with limited oversight and be accountable for outcomes.

About BlueOptima

• Our vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers.
• Our technology is used by some of the world’s largest organisations, including nine of the world’s top twelve Universal Banks.
• This successful product uptake has led to rapid expansion of our company.
• We are a global organisation with headquarters in London and additional offices in India, Mexico and the US.
• We are made up of 110+ individuals from more than 20 different countries.

Responsibilities

• Measured Outcomes for this role include Net Revenue Retention (NRR), Monthly Active Users (MAUs), and feature adoption and stickiness — alongside strengthening our competitive moat and positioning, positively influencing net-new logo growth.
• You'll Do Strategy & Roadmap Own the strategic roadmap for the product.
• Make the roadmap accountable to the metrics above — track them closely enough to catch early when something isn't working, and reprioritize accordingly.
• & Design Leadership Hold a strong, well-reasoned point of view on front-end design and UX quality.
• Partner with ML engineering on model behavior and evaluation, and with backend engineering on system and data architecture, at a level of depth that shapes technical decisions.
• Executive & Customer Engagement Present roadmap and strategy directly to executive and C-suite stakeholders, and defend it under scrutiny.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers and prospects, including in active sales cycles, as a credible product voice.
• Enterprise GTM & Revenue Partnership Partner with Sales, Product Marketing, and Customer Success on positioning, deal support, and renewals as an ongoing responsibility, not a launch handoff.
• Bring a current point of view on engineering productivity and performance measurement in the agentic-AI era into product strategy and roadmap decisions.
• Growth Mentor product managers working in and around the product, with the opportunity to take on formal people leadership as the team scales.
• Product Craft & Rigor Set the standard for product craft — problem framing, PRDs, roadmap collaboration and post-launch measurement.
• Bring strong rigor, discipline, and process to the cross-functional team, not just to your own output.
• Use agentic AI tools as part of your own product management workflow — research synthesis, spec drafting, roadmap analysis — and help the wider team adopt them well.

Requirements

• Prior experience mentoring or managing product managers directly is a plus, though not required.
• We're Looking For An understanding of what it takes to sell B2B SaaS and AI products into large, regulated, or enterprise organizations.
• Having at least 8 years of experience in technical B2B SaaS Product Management A well-informed point of view on developer and agentic productivity and performance — you've used agentic tools as part of your own workflow, and have an opinion on where this is heading.
• Have led products within the AI SDLC, Software Engineering Intelligence, DevOps, Developer Tools, Data Analytics and/or Agentic AI.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous, and multi-product environments.
• A strong, data-driven product leader who knows when to lean on data and when to lean on judgment.
• You can understand and shape the product experience, and hold your own in a technical conversation with both engineers and executives.
• Why join our team?

Benefits

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee Benefits: 32 days of holidays (including bank holidays) Annual Leave purchase (up to 10 extra days) Work from Home Equipment allowance Flexible Work from Home - 2 days remote a week Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year 12 Weeks Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave Pet friendly office Sponsored Learning Opportunities Cycle2work scheme Team Socials Salary: £90,000 to £100,000 + 5% of Annual salary as Execution Bonus (KPI focussed) Stay connected with us on LinkedIn or keep an eye on our career page for future opportunities!
• BlueOptima is on a mission to maximise the economic and social value that software engineering organisations are capable of delivering.

Location

London Department: Product