Senior Product Manager

🌎 Location: Remote (UTC+0 to UTC+11) or in-person at our London, Melbourne or Sydney offices.

We're hiring our first Senior Product Manager to work alongside our new (yet to be hired!) Head of Product.

Until now, Product has been owned by our founders, but as we scale rapidly, we need dedicated product leadership and execution. We're building out our product function with two key hires: a Head of Product to own overall vision and strategy, and you as our Senior Product Manager to drive discovery, and shape solutions that directly impact our customers.

This is the kind of opportunity that comes along rarely - the chance to build a product team from the ground up, and help craft solutions that will improve millions of young lives.

About Wellio

40% of young people have suffered from a mental health condition in the last 12 months, so chances are you know someone who has been affected.

Wellio was founded to help schools put wellbeing at the heart of learning. We believe deteriorating youth mental health is one of the most important problems in the world to tackle right now, and we're looking for people to join us on that journey.

Schools are stepping up to tackle this crisis head-on, putting wellbeing lessons into their timetables and making student mental health a priority. But here's the challenge: teachers trained in maths, English, and history (not wellbeing) often find these lessons uncomfortable to deliver. Meanwhile, schools are trying to hand-roll their own systems to triage students, spot who's struggling, and deliver tailored interventions. They're prioritising wellbeing but struggling to solve it with staff who are new to these problems and complex systems that each school has to build from scratch.

To solve these problems, we're creating the world's first Wellbeing Management System (WMS): a platform that packages the world's best approaches to student wellbeing and makes them simple to teach, measure, and improve across the full spectrum of care. It shouldn't matter which school you attend - you should get world-class support. If we're successful, our impact will be seen in national wellbeing data.

Our platform already powers engaging, data-rich wellbeing programs in 15 countries, 4 continents, and over 400 schools. We've tripled in 12 months, and we're on track to double again in 2025, which is why we need exceptional product talent to help guide what comes next.

What’s unique about working at Wellio?Small, exceptional team. We believe small is better than big. Staying lean means we can prioritise simplicity and speed, stay out of meetings all day, and build products we're proud of.

Mission-driven work. We wake up and work on a globally meaningful problem.

Transparency. We share everything internally because high trust breeds great culture, and knowing the business means better decisions.

Independent and profitable. We're privately held and profitable. We answer only to ourselves and our customers - no investor demands or constant strategy shifts.

We don't take ourselves too seriously. We believe doing great work and holding high standards is easier when you don't take things too seriously. Expect laughter and a healthy dose of weird.

Remote-friendly but culture focused. Our product team spans the globe but if you prefer offices, we have bases in London, Sydney, and Melbourne. We invest in flying our team together for two meetups a year.

How We Build Product

We're inspired by product philosophies from 37signals, Linear, and Airbnb, and we implement the Shape Up process to guide our product development. We believe in small, senior teams that embrace constraints, focus on craft, and deliver exceptional outcomes.

Some principles that guide us: continuous discovery, small teams over big ones, embracing constraints, fixed appetites with flexible scopes, knowing our tools and cutting with the grain, treating product as a marketing job, obsessing over craft and sweating the details, and avoiding long-term plans in favour of betting on what matters right now.

Improving student wellbeing requires solutions that weave technology and content together seamlessly. Most edtech companies split this work - platform teams here, content teams there, design somewhere else. We think that leads to narrow solutions that miss the bigger picture. At Wellio, design and content teams report into product because the best solutions integrate all three disciplines.

Your Core Responsibilities

As our first Senior Product Manager, you'll work directly with our Head of Product to execute on product vision and drive key initiatives. You'll be hands-on with discovery, shaping, and shipping while helping build the foundations of our product systems as we grow.

Discovery and Research

Conduct deep customer discovery to uncover meaningful problems and validate solutions. You'll spend significant time with customers, understanding their needs deeply:

• Watch customers use our product in classrooms to identify friction points
• Run discovery interviews to understand unmet needs
• Implement analytics tooling to analyse usage data and feedback to find improvement opportunities
• Research new markets and user segments to understand adaptation needs

Work with the VP of Product to translate insights into clear problem statements and opportunity areas.

Shaping and Pitching

Own specific product areas and shape compelling pitches that outline problems and solutions—whether that's new features, lesson types, or product improvements.

Collaborate with engineering, design, and content to ensure your pitches are good deals (appetite vs. impact), technically feasible, and user-friendly.

Present pitches at betting tables and advocate for the problems and solutions you've shaped.

Shipping and Iteration

Drive the execution of your shaped work within set appetites. Work closely with engineering and design to wield the scope hammer and keep projects on track.

Hold the quality line—only ship work that meets our standards. Push back on pressures to compromise quality for speed.

After release, measure impact and iterate based on customer feedback, usage data, and business metrics.

Cross-functional Collaboration

Work closely with design and content teams to create cohesive user experiences that integrate technology and content seamlessly.

Partner with sales and customer success to communicate product value. Help craft messaging and sometimes join customer calls to understand their needs firsthand.

Support the Head of Product in building foundational systems and processes as the product team grows.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of product management experience with a proven track record shipping successful B2B SaaS products.
• Strong discovery and research skills. You know how to uncover real customer problems and validate solutions before building them.
• Excellent execution skills. You can take a shaped pitch and drive it from concept to shipped product, making smart trade-offs along the way.
• Customer empathy and business acumen. You understand how to balance customer needs with business outcomes and technical constraints.
• Collaborative mindset. You work well with engineering, design, and content teams to create integrated solutions.
• You understand your medium. You don't need to code or design everything yourself, but you know enough to have detailed conversations with engineers and designers.
• You love great products and get excited by well-crafted tools, whether in our space or completely outside it.
• Problem-solving skills. You can identify important problems, break them down, and work systematically toward solutions.

How to Apply

Please submit an application that speaks directly to this position. Tell us about yourself, about what you can bring to Wellio, and why this position is the right next step for you. Tell us why you're in Product. Be descriptive, but don't feel the need to write a novel — 500 words or so should be plenty. Last, be sure to show us your work, and work that other people have done that you really admire.

We're accepting applications until Friday, August 15th.