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Maneno

Subscription-based gamified reading platform for kids

Senior Product Manager

Full-Time
£50k - £70k/yr+ Share options
Senior
London, UK
Remote
ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Previous product management experience, including experience in consumer mobile applications.
  • A proven track record of delivering successful products at scale for web and mobile platforms, including conception, implementation, and delivery.
  • Project management experience driving projects that deliver on time and budget.
  • Experience practicing agile and lean methodologies.
  • Experience with an application serving more than 100,000 users.
  • User testing experience.
  • Analytics experience.
Responsibilities
  • Manage the full product lifecycle from vision through development, testing, deployment, and the feedback loop.
  • Own overall user retention and ensure that users continue returning to the product.
  • Develop the product roadmap and the project and resource plans required to deliver it.
  • Manage the teams involved in application development, collaborating with engineering, product design, marketing, and operations to define, scope, prioritize, develop, test, and deliver features across internal and customer-facing products.
  • Use quantitative analysis methods to define and analyze key metrics, including A/B testing and multivariate testing.
  • Translate the company’s mission and strategy into a market-leading application.
  • Identify new technical solutions and product innovations.
  • Collect the data necessary to inform product direction and user experience.
  • Lead the creation of pragmatic, prioritized, actionable roadmaps.
  • Create strategies to ensure the wider team delivers on goals and continually improves the business proposition.
  • Be hands-on and participate in all aspects of the product process.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience working with a remote development team.
  • Release management experience.
  • Experience juggling multiple projects, delegating work effectively, and iteratively improving team operations.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams and communicating effectively across a startup business.
  • Deep knowledge of analytics tools such as Mixpanel and CleverTap.
  • Experience working with EdTech and gamification.
  • Experience with story-driven game design, taps, and sinks diagrams.

About the company

Maneno offers a subscription-based, gamified reading platform designed to build daily reading habits in young learners. It operates through a mobile app available on Apple App Store and Google Play. The system centers on each child caring for a baby dragon that they nurture and feed by reading, turning reading sessions into game progress. Families subscribe to access the app; kids log reading sessions, track progress, and engage with game elements that reward consistency and effort. What sets it apart is the combination of a character-driven motivation (the baby dragon) with daily streaks, rewards, and progress tracking, all in a kid-friendly mobile experience. The goal is to improve literacy worldwide and spark kids’ interest in reading.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Denmark

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • Deepbridge Capital backed Maneno in February 2025, validating investor interest.
  • The app updated on Google Play in May 2026, showing ongoing product maintenance.
  • U.K. SEN school pilots started in 2023, opening a defensible institutional channel.

What critics are saying

  • Deepbridge’s 2025 funding likely was modest, limiting runway against better-funded edtech rivals.
  • No fresh 2026 school contracts or revenue disclosures signal weak market traction.
  • Apple and Google can copy features quickly, collapsing Maneno’s consumer moat within 12 months.

What makes Maneno unique

  • Maneno’s gamified dragon mechanic ties reading progress to daily engagement.
  • Its library spans 8,000+ children’s books with text-to-speech and accessibility tools.
  • Founder Thomas Normann-Ekegren built Maneno as a subscription reading app for ages 4+.

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