Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

Blink

Blink

201-500 employees

Subscription-based frontline worker communication platform

Compensation Overview

$170k - $200k/yr

+ Equity

Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

Boston, MA, USA

In Person

Category
Product (2)
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Required Skills
Agile
ServiceNow
Product Management
Workday HRIS
SAP Products
Oracle
Requirements
  • 5+ years minimum of product management experience in business-to-business software-as-a-service (SaaS).
  • Deep experience with enterprise systems of record (ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, Oracle Human Capital Management, etc.) - either building integrations directly or partnering with these platforms.
  • Strong experience operating in agile, iterative product teams and making prioritisation and scope decisions under real-world constraints.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and incomplete information.
  • Strong technical acumen to work effectively with engineering teams and solution architects.
  • Comfortable being customer-facing and representing product in pre-sales situations with a proven track record working with enterprise customers and supporting complex sales cycles.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences.
Responsibilities
  • Partnership Management: Key to our Workday partnership and integration strategy, ensuring seamless connectivity between Blink and enterprise systems of record.
  • Customer-Driven Product Development: Champion the US market perspective in product development, ensuring regional customer needs, competitive dynamics, and market opportunities drive strategic product decisions and roadmap priorities.
  • Pre-Sales Support: Partner with sales on enterprise deals, creating product mockups, demos, and documentation to win complex opportunities.
  • Squad Product Leadership: Lead the squad’s product direction end-to-end, setting priorities and making day-to-day trade-offs in close partnership with Engineering, ensuring work aligns to strategic goals while maintaining momentum on customer commitments.
  • Discovery to Launch: Lead discovery processes to validate new feature ideas, working closely with customers and internal teams to define requirements, then shepherd features through development to successful market launch.
  • Go-to-Market Strategy: Partner with marketing, sales, and customer success to develop launch strategies, positioning, and enablement materials that drive feature adoption.
  • Product Roadmap: Own and communicate a clear roadmap for your squad, which balances customer requests, technical debt, strategic initiatives, and new product opportunities.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with sales, customer success, and marketing to gather insights, support deals, and ensure product decisions ladder up to business objectives.
Desired Qualifications
  • Design skills or experience with prototyping tools (Figma, modern AI-powered design tools).
  • Experience with internal communications or employee experience platforms.
  • API and integration platform experience.
  • Prior experience in a high-growth SaaS scale-up environment.

Blink provides a subscription-based communication platform for frontline workers in enterprises. Its main product is a super app that combines secure chat, news feeds, digital forms, and single sign-on into one interface, helping healthcare providers, retail chains, and logistics companies stay connected and productive. The platform works by offering an integrated suite of tools that employees access through a single sign-on, enabling messaging, information sharing, form submission, and workflow updates within one app. Blink differentiates itself by specifically targeting frontline staff, an often underserved segment in digital transformation, and delivering an all-in-one solution that combines communication and productivity features under a single subscription. The company’s goal is to improve engagement and operational efficiency for frontline workers across diverse industries, supported by ongoing feature updates and a scalable enterprise-grade platform.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$30.2M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2015

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • US growth surged 159% in fiscal 2023 ending February 2024 with key hires like Jim McInerny.
  • Serves McDonald's 700,000 employees across 32 countries and expanded to 67 countries.
  • Secured €17 million Series A in 2023 from Next47, Partech, and TechStars.

What critics are saying

  • Amazon Blink XT3 launch diverts B2B searches to security products within 3-6 months.
  • Workday's Huddle acquisition captures 25% larger enterprises in healthcare, retail in 12-18 months.
  • Microsoft Viva Engage integrates into Teams, undercutting chat features in 6-12 months.

What makes Blink unique

  • Blink's super app integrates secure chat, news feeds, and digital forms for frontline workers.
  • Targets overlooked frontline sectors like healthcare, retail, and logistics with mobile-first design.
  • Achieves rapid adoption, such as 87% at JD Sports in 10 days and 88% at easyJet.

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6 month growth

-10%

1 year growth

-11%

2 year growth

-14%
Business Wire
Apr 24th, 2024
Employee Experience Super-App Blink Grows By 159% As Organizations Strive To Cultivate Employee Engagement And Retention

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blink, one of the fastest-growing employee experience platforms, today announced record US growth of 159% for its fiscal year 2023, concluding in February 2024. Founded by Sean Nolan and launched in 2019, Blink is a mobile-first employee app designed specifically for frontline organizations to close the digital divide gap, enhancing productivity, improving communication and reducing turnover. Nolan's strategic relocation from London to Boston 18 months ago provided the foundation for Blink's growth trajectory. In addition, key appointments in 2023, such as Jim McInerny joining as chief revenue officer and Jeff St Laurent being added to the Board, have strengthened the company’s leadership team. Blink’s surge reflects the growing demand for platforms prioritizing employee satisfaction and retention rates. The company has significant adoption across key sectors including healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, logistics, and hospitality which has fueled its expansion

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Feb 18th, 2022
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Sean Nolan is the founder and CEO of Blink, an enterprise IT platform for frontline workers. Nolan founded Blink in 2014 after he saw a gap in the market for an HR and employee engagement system designed for non-office workers, such as bus drivers and health workers. It has hundreds of customers across healthcare, logistics, [] The post Founder in Five: QA with Blinks Sean Nolan appeared first on UKTN | UK Tech News.