PURPOSE

LawVu is transforming the legal industry by providing the world’s leading and most loved platform for in-house legal teams. LawVu is a fast growing New Zealand software company with customers and employees around the globe, including in New Zealand, United States, Australia and Europe. Our legal workspace is a category creating software platform that is designed specifically for in-house legal teams. We’re backed by leading venture capital firms, including Insight Partners and Airtree Ventures.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

As a Senior Product Manager you will be responsible for driving customer and business value through ownership of the strategy & product development for LawVu’s Workspace capability. You will manage products end-to-end, from early stage research and ideation where you will validate desirability and business viability through to implementation and improvement over time. Your impact will be measured by key commercial and customer success metrics.

What you’ll do…

• Actively network across LawVu to understand how products fit into LawVu’s strategy, objectives and future

• Work directly with the customer to conduct research, collect insights or validate understanding

• Use customer data and insights particularly in assessing value and viability risks, to inform product strategy, roadmap and planning

• Define the scope of the customer problem and frames possible solutions to test, validate and refine

• Participate in developing a strategy for the product, including securing funding, resourcing and leading the annual and quarterly OKR process

• Ensure your product team are aware of the product vision and can articulate the value of what we are delivering to customers

• Develop product roadmaps to execute on the product strategy, and can manage a product to its roadmap

• Develop a release strategy

• Work collaboratively with other elements of the product team such as design, engineering, and product marketing to ensure an effective launch

• Monitor the overall commercial & customer results of the product, working with other product team members to intervene if required

• Monitor and analyze the ongoing performance of a product

• Determine where improvements to the existing product can be made or scheduled

• Provide support between stages of product development to ensure continuity and cohesiveness, and alignment of product to strategy and roadmap

• Manage a product across the end-to-end lifecycle (e.g. launch through to sunset) to ensure maintenance and support throughout the life of the product

• Work as a tie-breaking decision-maker, ensuring where the product team cannot get to consensus, the product manager will weigh up all inputs and make the decision

What success looks like…

✔ You are contributing to team OKRs

✔ You intimately understand our customers and their problems

✔ Your roadmap is being executed according to plan and you are focused on the most important initiatives

✔ All individuals working on and around your product understand whatʼs being built, why itʼs being built and what constitutes success

✔ You have clearly defined product success for your team, with key customer and commercial metrics articulated and constantly measured

✔ You demonstrate and amplify LawVu’s Values

✔ The product team is world class 🙂

What you’ll need…

• 5+ years of experience in SaaS
• 5+ years in product and delivery focused roles
• Experience with Legal Tech in particular Contract Management tooling
• Comprehensive understanding of product launch and go-to-market strategy and lifecycles
• Excellent roadmapping and stakeholder engagement frameworks
• Solid financial analysis and forecasting skills
• Solid understanding of business analysis disciplines
• An enabling attitude with an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for our mission

Location

NZ (Remote or Hybrid)

What sets us apart:

• Quarterly wellness allowance to use on whatever enables you to bring your whole self to work – gym membership, massage, childcare.. the list goes on!
• Health insurance cover
• Extended paid parental leave
• Extra paid day off on your birthday
• Employee share option plan (ESOP)
• Home office allowance set up for remote employees

Reports to

Group Product Director

Why LawVu?

At LawVu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.