Enterprise Product Manager

at  Sparta Commodities

HI, WE’RE SPARTA COMMODITIES!

Sparta is the next generation platform of financial data, information and insight for trading. Our mission is to digitise the commodity trading market and become the leading platform for traders and analysts in all commodities verticals. Built for traders by traders, our technology pulls together real time market data and adds insight and advanced analysis to enable traders to make better decisions, faster and with more conviction.
Following impressive market traction and financial backing from Venture Investors, we’re on a path to scale globally. It’s a great time to join us, and we have a fantastic opportunity for an Enterprise Product Manager to join the team based in the UK.
This is a critical and high profile role for Sparta, building a new product line and driving the entire product life cycle from ideation through delivery, launch, and post-launch impact assessment. This role will take Sparta to the largest and most important trading houses in the world. You’ll move fast, work with a great team, and build fantastic products that will have real impact in commodity trading and create new solutions for users. You’ll have a senior profile across the business and work closely with Sparta’s Senior Leadership Team, including co-founders and the CEO.
You’ll own our Enterprise Product line, and work with customers, internal teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to create innovative, scalable solutions. You’ll operate as a trusted, cross-functional leader, co-leading product engineering teams alongside a Tech Lead.
We’re keen for this role to be present with Product leadership 2+ days a week in our London office.

Product Ownership:

• Own and drive the product lifecycle for Enterprise, from ideation to impact validation.
• Develop and maintain a compelling product vision, strategy, and roadmap that aligns with company goals and customer needs.

Customer Engagement (Outbound):

• Conduct in-depth customer research and stakeholder interviews to identify pain points and opportunities.
• Validate problem statements and proposed solutions with real-world customer input.

Cross-functional Collaboration (Inbound):

• Work closely with Sales & Customer Success to understand user feedback, partner with Marketing teams to ensure product-market fit and successful product launches.
• Work closely with Product Designers and Engineers to deliver high-quality, impactful solutions that live up to Sparta’s excellent UX reputation.

Team Leadership:

• Co-lead a product engineering team alongside Tech Lead counterpart, fostering a culture of first principles problem understanding, individual ownership, proactiveness, collaboration, accountability, and innovation.
• Provide your team with clarity on the problem space and conviction in the proposed solutions through a data-driven and evidence-based approach.

Building and Scaling Products:

• Take products from 0 to 1: design and launch new offerings that do not exist today.
• Scale products to meet growing enterprise demands, ensuring reliability, stability, performance, and customer satisfaction.

Metrics and Impact:

• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and inform decision-making.Continuously review feedback and synthesise it into the product backlog to maximise product impact and user satisfaction.