Product Manager - Mobile

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar : a high growth company

A successful and innovative pan-European start-up, backed by Accel Partners, in a rapid international growth phase, our HQ are based in Paris and we have international teams in Madrid, Milan, Warsaw, Hamburg, Moscow, London and Istanbul. We are creating an entirely new, people powered, transport network. With dedicated customer service, state of the art web and mobile platforms, and a highly engaged community of users, BlaBlaCar is making road travel fun, money-saving and more efficient. We are always recruiting talented new team members to support our rapid growth.

Being part of the BlaBlaCar team means:

  • you will have a positive social impact on the world, as we continue to make road travel smarter and more sustainable
  • you will work in a fast-paced environment with a highly agile team of dynamic, hyper-motivated and talented individuals
  • you will join a pan-European company, with a real international culture and vision; multi-lingual and highly mobile :)

Job Description

As part of the product team, you role will be to conceive, optimize and follow the development of many new mobile features as well as improve our existing set of mobile products. The focus is to better our users’ experience on BlaBlaCar while focusing on making our product ever more popular.

Responsibilities

  • Product: Faced with our strong user growth and international expansion you are always focused on supporting our global strategy, acquiring new users and keeping our existing users engaged on our mobile apps.

  • Project management: As a true Product Owner you follow your projects from inception to completion, working closely with the technical team to insure speedy delivery. You are also the gatekeeper who validates the final delivery, thus insuring the quality of your product,

  • Intuitive / Analytic: You will constantly gather feedback from your users, analyze their comments, get to the root of the problem and devise further enhancements that solve their problems simply and effectively.

  • Matter expert: As a constant source of inspiration you stay up to date with the best practices, what other leading apps are doing and how we can be creative to improve our users’ experience and support our global strategy.

Qualifications

  • Bac+5 (engineering school, business degree, 3ème cycle, master)
  • Talented, curious, creative and passionate about the mobile web and its latest evolutions.
  • At least 2 years of experience as a mobile product manager
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Experienced with agile methodologies such as scrum
  • Great sense for what what makes a great user experience preferred
  • Nimble mind that can analyse data, create mental models and make product recommendations
  • Pro active and independent, you need limited guidance to keep things moving forward
  • Very familiar with wireframing and the conception of new interfaces that are focused on a flawless user experience
  • Fluent in French, your english is flawless as well
  • Fun!

Additional Information

  • Start: ASAP
  • Contract: Full time only
  • Location: Paris 9ème
  • CDI / Cadre

How to apply?

Answer these questions in English:

  • Why do you wish to join the BlaBlaCar team?
  • Where do you see yourself in five years time?
  • What is your experience with carsharing?
  • As a Product Manager, which team do you feel closest to, and why?
  • What are the limitations with A/B testing?
  • What should the ideal spec contain?
  • How did you hear about this position?

Please note, only the following applications will be considered: candidates with a meaningful cover letter, citing SPECIFIC motivation to join our fantastic team ; if not your application will not be considered.