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Principal Product Manager (Citymapper), London

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In-Office
London, England
Senior level
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London, England
Senior level
The Principal Product Manager will lead product strategies, manage roadmaps, collaborate with teams, and enhance consumer navigation tools in urban mobility.
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At Citymapper (powered by Via), we’re on a mission to help make cities easier to navigate. Our app helps millions of people around the world make the best decision on how they want to travel. Whether it's on foot or by bicycle, above ground or underground, or a combination of modes, our real-time data ensures that users have the most accurate and up-to-date information available.

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our team and help us shape the future of our product, working on features that impact millions of users daily. If you are a hands-on PM with a technical mindset who is passionate about solving complex technical challenges and making a real impact on people's lives, you have found the perfect place.  

This is an opportunity to be part of a small, mission-driven team that is obsessed with providing the most accurate, reliable, and user-friendly transit tech for both consumer products and enterprise technology to improve mobility in cities.

We value bold ideas, quick iteration, and a healthy dose of "getting stuff done".
We use what we build, every day. 
We move fast and we like green.

What You'll Do:

  • Lead the development and execution of product strategies that align with our mission to make City navigation smarter and more user-friendly
  • Manage the product roadmap, prioritizing features and setting clear goals and metrics for success
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, data analytics, business, operations, and more.
  • Work through the entire Product lifecycle from delivery, to QA, and iterate until launch.
  • Analyze user feedback, market trends, and competitor offerings to identify opportunities for product enhancement and innovation
  • Test and use the product you build

Who You Are:

  • 8 + years of product experience with a proven track record of delivering successful consumer-facing mobile products, ideally from the transportation industry
  • A strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights
  • A strong communicator who can effectively collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders, can abstract complex concepts into simple messages
  • Data-driven, with the ability to use analytics to inform product decisions and measure success
  • Passionate about urban mobility and improving the way people navigate cities
  • Adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment. You talk to users constantly. And you really care about what you build.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Becoming part of a company that was awarded for its commitment to social good
  • Competitive compensation including stock options
  • A hybrid working model and a spacious office near Chancery Lane, where you can enjoy weekly team lunches
  • Comprehensive health scheme offered through AXA
 
We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We’re driven by a simple mission: to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education. With our best in class suite of products, we make transit thrive. 

Our teams of world-class engineers, data-scientists, product managers, operations specialists, marketers, transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012, Via builds solutions to digitize, automate, and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses, microtransit, paratransit, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and more. 

If you’re excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation, are up for solving tough problems, and willing to become/already are a transit nerd, we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities. 

Ready to join the ride?

Via is an equal opportunity employer.

Top Skills

Data Analytics
Mobile Products
Software

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