Frank is changing students’ lives for the better. We do this with a disruptive twist through co-creation with good companies and our owners — the students. Since 2013 Frank has grown from an idea into a 15 person innovation hub based in the heart of Helsinki. In May 2017 we were awarded as the Best Performing Team in Blue Arrow Awards.

In August 2016 Frank introduced the first digital student card in Finland, which now has over 50 000 users and was awarded as the Best Mobile Utility Service in Finland 2016. This year we are taking things to a whole new level. Thus, we are looking for a

Product Manager to steer our outstanding product development team.

We at Frank believe in learning by doing, but for this position you should already have experience about product development and management, preferably with a focus on software products and technologies. The role of the Product Manager includes many activities from strategic to tactical, i.e. you are responsible for defining the ‘why’, ‘what,’ and ‘when’ of our core product. You are the lead resource for the rest of the organization and also to our partners when deep product expertise is required.

Your main responsibilities will be

• Owning Frank’s product vision and strategy
• Defining and communicating the product roadmap
• Managing and updating a release plan outlining near-term deliverables
• Defining the right problems to solve
• Budgeting and resource allocation for product development
• Leading and unblocking the product development team
• Fostering a user-centric product development mindset
• Setting and evaluating product success metrics on a constant basis
• Contributing to the vision and roadmap of our overall business

What we expect from you

• Proven track record of managing software development teams
• Understanding of two-sided marketplaces
• Deep know-how of either business or technology
• Working knowledge of common analytics tools and practices
• Capability to make (even hard) decisions
• Eye for empathy and team-building
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in English

We’re reeeally interested if in addition you can also:

• do customer development and user research interviews
• jump in to help the team and solve minor development tasks on your own
• understand the possible complexity of building a multi-platform React application on top of a serverless backend architecture running on AWS with integrations to 3rd party systems
• design rough wireframes and UI mockups with Sketch to speed up our design process

We offer competitive salary and benefits, 15 awesome colleagues and a chance to make a concrete difference through your work. We are on a strong growth track and heavily developing our service, so you won’t run out of new things, dilemmas, opportunities and also partners to work with. Frank serves the students in Finland, which is the most interesting and fast moving group of 0,5 million individuals to work for and with. Our office is located in Kaisaniemi, Helsinki.

We needed you here yesterday, so don’t hesitate to get in touch! We will fill the position as soon as the right person is found. Deadline for applications is June 16th 2017.

Please send your resume or links to your LinkedIn profile and related, accompanied with your regards on why you would be the person for the job and we will get in touch!

For more information please contact Tiia Lehtola 040 7713 581 or Sara Härmälä 040 589 7819.

P.S. Do you know just the right person for the job? If you can hook us up with the right dude or dudette, we are ready to make it worth your while ;)