Product Manager

Schedule: 4-day week, 32 hours a week

Do you know what product management is really about? If you do, then you know it isn't roadmaps, tickets or beautifully groomed backlogs. It's finding a real, expensive, unglamorous problem that people live with every day - and shipping something that makes it go away. That is product. At Shape Construction, we are building software that transforms how construction projects are delivered. It's born out of real project experience and designed to bring clarity, structure and performance to complex environments. The problem we are solving is one of the oldest in the industry: what actually happens on a construction site never makes it, intact, to the people who need it. Supervisors, field engineers and site managers see reality first: work blocked, plans deviated from, instructions given verbally, conditions nobody planned for. That knowledge lives in heads, notebooks, camera rolls and group chats. Meanwhile the people responsible for the commercial health of the project are working weeks behind, from whatever fragments they can piece together. By the time anyone needs to prove what happened, the evidence has gone cold. We are building the platform that closes that gap. Tools the site genuinely wants to use, capturing what happens as it happens, and then turning that raw signal into structured, trustworthy records that let commercial and project leadership make decisions, hold their ground and protect margin they would otherwise have written off. This is your opportunity to own a core part of that. You won't be handed a roadmap to administer, you'll shape it, defend it, and be measured on whether customers are genuinely better off. If you like being close to messy real-world problems, have strong opinions about what to build and the discipline to kill your own ideas when the evidence says so, keep reading. (this will be a long write up but we like to give you all the details before you spend your time applying) _________________________________________________________________________________________ We are Shape.Construction! We are digitising the largest and most fundamental industry in the world, the industry that literally builds the foundations of the civilisation we all depend on to spare us from a brutal hunter-gatherer life: CONSTRUCTION It is one of the least digitised industries in the world but also the largest - 1 in 9 people globally work in the construction industry and it constitutes 11% of global GDP. Improving construction strengthens the very foundation of human civilisation. (Watch our short film about it). We got our start as a high-end construction project management consultancy. As a consultancy, we are focused on genuinely upgrading the way construction projects are delivered. We then take the deep understanding of the projects we work on to develop construction management software products that anyone can use to deliver their projects better. We are building a full suite of products one module at a time - kind of like office 365 but for construction management - Check out Shape, our construction management tech The core of all this is our true secret sauce; people. We only recruit the very best both in capability and personality. We are deeply focused on designing a new type of organisation that is optimised for the flourishing of the people in the team first and foremost. People that join us develop fast as a whole person in ways they never imagined. This approach has allowed us to grow from just 2 people in 2017 to over 220 today (including consultancy) and we are still very much at the beginning! Joining us isn't just some "job", it is a transformative educational experience. We challenge you to be your best self in all aspects of life. 4 core values for a good life We believe a life of human flourishing is all about meaningful relationships with others and challenging yourself to create a positive impact. So our values reflect the 4 levels of relationships that each of us has: Grow yourself - Your relationship with yourself Care about people - Your relationship with others around you Execute to greatness - Your relationship with your team Build civilisation - Your relationship with humanity and the world This goes much deeper but for the sake of brevity, we will keep the summary version! We enshrined our values in our vision We exist so that everyone in our team can thrive in a high-impact community that: