Product Manager / Senior Product Manager

Phorest
Full-time•Product / Owner•Ireland · Remote within Ireland
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At a glance

Employment type
Full-time
Workplace
Remote

What you'll be doing

Phorest seeks experienced Product Managers (mid/senior) to own product areas end-to-end, shape strategy and roadmaps, lead high-impact initiatives, and deliver measurable outcomes for SaaS solutions supporting hair, beauty, and medspa professionals. Mentoring opportunities available for senior candidates.

  • Own a product area end-to-end, defining strategy, long-term roadmap, and key bets
  • Lead complex, high-impact initiatives across squads, functions, or regions
  • Partner with Engineering, Design, and Product Operations to align dependencies and deliver through influence
  • Lead discovery by engaging with customers, analyzing data, running experiments, and validating assumptions
  • Translate insights into clear problems, product requirements, and actionable plans
  • Balance customer value, strategic fit, and commercial return when prioritizing
  • Collaborate across teams to align readiness, gather feedback, and support adoption
  • Track adoption, customer outcomes, and commercial measures post-launch

Key requirements

Must-have

  • 5-8 years’ Product Management experience
  • Proven track record of successful product launches and significant business outcomes
  • Strong customer empathy and structured problem-solving approach
  • Strategic thinker connecting product decisions to company strategy and outcomes
  • Confidence partnering with Engineering and Design
  • Ability to build credibility and align cross-functional teams without authority
  • Organized and dependable in managing complex workstreams
  • Outcome-focused and analytical, able to set and track KPIs

Experience: 5-8 years’ Product Management experience

Role signals

Technical focus
product management
Leadership
Mentoring
Hands-on vs management
Hands-on

Full job description

Who we are

Phorest started in 2002 on a busy salon reception desk as a simple text-reminder tool.

Today, we're a SaaS company and a trusted partner to over 155,000 hair, beauty and medspa professionals worldwide. Our all-in-one software and AI-driven tools help them manage bookings, take payments, market their services, grow their client base and get the best from their teams.

Everything we build helps the salon and medspa industry thrive.

We're also a Certified B Corp, and 25% of the company is owned by Phoresters. When the company grows, everyone has a stake in that.

About the Product team

Our ambition is to become the number one platform for premium hair, beauty and aesthetics businesses globally. For our Product & Engineering organisation, that means understanding the people behind those businesses and building thoughtful, reliable products that make a real difference to how they work.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for experienced Product Managers at both mid and senior level to help shape products that support hair, beauty and medspa professionals to run thriving businesses.

Working closely with Design, Engineering and Data, you’ll turn customer insights into meaningful product improvements, balancing strategy with hands-on delivery. You’ll take ownership of high-impact initiatives, shape clear roadmaps, prioritise what matters most and deliver measurable outcomes. Along the way, you’ll build strong relationships across teams and regions, bring clarity to complex challenges and help raise the bar for product quality. For more senior team members, there’s also the opportunity to mentor others and influence product direction beyond your own domain.

What You'll Do

  • Own a product area end-to-end, defining its strategy, long-term roadmap and key bets in line with Phorest’s mission and measurable outcomes.
  • Lead complex, high-impact initiatives across squads, functions or regions. Partner with Engineering, Design and Product Operations to align dependencies early, reduce ambiguity and deliver through influence rather than authority.
  • Lead discovery by talking with customers, analysing data, running experiments and validating assumptions. Build close partnerships with regional teams and join customer calls regularly to bring in-market insight into decisions.
  • Translate insights into clear problems to solve, product requirements and actionable plans.
  • Balance customer value, strategic fit and commercial return when prioritising; communicate trade-offs, risks and progress clearly to senior stakeholders and partners.
  • Collaborate across teams—including Commercial, Success, Support, Product Marketing and regional teams—to align readiness, bring feedback into solutions and support adoption.
  • Own outcomes beyond delivery: track adoption, customer outcomes and commercial measures such as ROI and ARR; use post-launch data and feedback to learn, improve and ensure initiatives reach their intended impact.
  • Keep your product area organised and transparent with a current roadmap, prioritised backlog, clear requirements, initiative metrics and proactive progress updates. Build strong business cases for major investments.
  • Mentor and support other Product Managers, sharing feedback and helping strengthen product practice across the team.

Who You Are

You’re an experienced product manager who combines strong product thinking with a practical, collaborative approach. You communicate clearly, make good judgement calls and keep the team aligned on what matters most.

You have:

  • Between 5-8 years’ Product Management experience, with a proven track record of successful product launches and significant business outcomes.
  • Strong customer empathy and a structured approach to problem solving; you seek insight directly from salons and end-users and validate assumptions continuously.
  • Strategic thinker who connects product and roadmap decisions to Phorest’s strategy, customer value and commercial outcomes, balancing user needs, business value and technical feasibility.
  • Confidence partnering with Engineering and Design to challenge ideas constructively and make trade-offs that deliver great outcomes.
  • A trusted leader by influence: you build credibility, align senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without relying on authority, and communicate clearly and persuasively.
  • Organised and dependable, bringing clarity and consistency to complex workstreams and following through from discovery to impact.
  • Outcome-focused and analytical: you define success by impact, set and track KPIs (including ROI and ARR), analyse product usage and turn evidence into actionable insights.
  • A supportive mentor who coaches other Product Managers in product craft, discovery and prioritisation, helping strengthen team capability.
  • Resilient and adaptable: you navigate ambiguity with composure, stay focused on results and adjust when new evidence emerges.
  • Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and product development frameworks; experience with tools such as Jira and Looker.
  • Experience in hair, beauty or wellness, consumer products, mobile products or a relevant product area is an advantage, as is experience selecting and managing suppliers or vendors.

Benefits

🧘 Your wellbeing is important to us - we provide private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, an employee assistance program and a free online GP service.

💰 As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide competitive Compensation, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.

🚵🏿 We help you travel by providing a bike to work scheme as well as tax saver transport tickets.

🦸‍♀️ We support the women who work in Phorest by offering 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause.

🍼 We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.

🌳 We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment and extensive development opportunities. We run development programs and provide access to many online resources including LinkedIn learning.

🏠 Moving house? Phorest employees get 3 moving days.

Want to learn more about Phorest? Check out nothingventured.rocks for our blog and Insights on building an evergreen company from the team here at Phorest.

Phorest is an equal opportunity employer. For this position, flexi-time and working from home is possible. We are also open to remote work. Get in touch to ask for more information or to chat about your future with Phorest!

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised folks tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

Interview prep pack

Grounded in this listing. Use it to prepare examples before you apply.

Your interview focus

Based on this listing, the Product Manager / Senior Product Manager role at Phorest focuses on end-to-end product ownership, driving impactful initiatives, and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver measurable business outcomes for the salon and medspa industry.

  • Product lifecycle ownership·High
  • Customer discovery and validation·High
  • Cross-functional influence·High
  • Outcome measurement·High

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Your 30-minute plan

  1. Research Phorest’s Products and Market

    0–7 min

    Review Phorest’s website, product documentation, and recent news to understand their offerings and customer base.

  2. Prepare STAR Stories for Key Responsibilities

    7–15 min

    Draft concise examples from your experience that demonstrate end-to-end ownership, customer discovery, cross-team collaboration, and outcome measurement.

  3. Review SaaS Metrics and Prioritization Frameworks

    15–20 min

    Refresh your knowledge of key SaaS KPIs and frameworks for prioritizing product initiatives.

  4. Plan Questions for the Interviewers

    20–25 min

    Select and tailor 3-4 thoughtful questions to ask about Phorest’s product strategy, team, and success measures.

  5. Practice Communicating Trade-Offs and Influence

    25–30 min

    Rehearse explaining how you have balanced competing priorities and influenced stakeholders without authority.

Likely questions

, 6 items

Priority reflects how strongly this topic is emphasised in the job listing, not whether it will be asked.

Talking points

, 5 items
  • Defining and Executing Product Strategy

    You will need to demonstrate how you have set a vision, built roadmaps, and aligned product decisions with company strategy and measurable outcomes.

  • Customer Discovery and Validation

    The role emphasizes direct engagement with customers and validating assumptions, so be ready to share examples of how you have gathered insights and turned them into actionable product improvements.

  • Leading Without Authority

    Success in this role depends on influencing and aligning cross-functional teams, so prepare to discuss how you have built credibility and delivered results through collaboration.

  • Outcome-Focused Delivery and KPI Tracking

    You will be expected to track adoption, customer outcomes, and commercial metrics post-launch, so be prepared to explain how you have measured and communicated product impact.

  • Mentoring and Team Development (Senior Level)

    If applying at the senior level, you should be able to discuss how you have supported and coached other Product Managers to strengthen team capability.

What to research

, 4 items
  • Phorest’s Product Ecosystem

    Research Phorest’s current product offerings, target customers (salon, beauty, medspa professionals), and recent product launches.

  • Customer Discovery Techniques

    Review best practices for gathering customer insights, running experiments, and validating assumptions in SaaS environments.

  • Outcome Measurement in Product Management

    Refresh your knowledge of key SaaS metrics such as adoption, ROI, ARR, and how to use them to drive continuous improvement.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration Strategies

    Prepare examples of working with Engineering, Design, and regional teams to deliver complex initiatives.

Questions to ask

, 6 items
  1. How does Phorest define success for product initiatives, and what metrics are most important?

    Why ask this? To understand how your impact will be measured and what outcomes matter most to the business.

  2. What are the biggest challenges currently facing the product team in serving salon and medspa professionals?

    Why ask this? To gain insight into the team’s priorities and where you can add value.

  3. How does the product team collaborate with Engineering, Design, and regional teams during discovery and delivery?

    Why ask this? To clarify expectations for cross-functional work and alignment.

  4. What opportunities exist for mentoring or influencing product direction beyond my immediate area?

    Why ask this? To assess growth and leadership opportunities, especially at the senior level.

  5. How does Phorest incorporate customer feedback and market insights into the product development process?

    Why ask this? To understand the company’s approach to discovery and continuous improvement.

  6. What does onboarding and success look like in the first 90 days for this role?

    Why ask this? To set expectations for early impact and integration into the team.

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