Product Manager - 4 Day Week + Remote

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: Connects us with meaningful relationships Inspires us to develop ourselves to become better humans Empowers us to pursue our own learning adventures We believe that, by first doing this, we can achieve the highest levels of value for the world. And enable the achievement of our vision through our dual missions: To fully digitise the construction of human civilisation To create a new type of organisation that enables human flourishing while delivering a huge positive impact on society _________________________________________________________________________________________ The Role Purpose of the role As a Product Manager you'll own a core area of the Shape platform end to end, from the customer problem through to the outcome it produces on a live project. You'll be accountable for a measurable business outcome for our customers, not for a feature list. Our platform spans two very different worlds, and both matter. On one side, the site: supervisors, field engineers and site managers working in conditions where an app has about five seconds to prove it's worth opening. On the other, the office: project directors, commercial directors and quantity surveyors who need to trust what they're looking at enough to make a call on it. Value only appears when those two sides connect, and that connection is what we build. Depending on where you're strongest and what the business needs, you might own the field side, the commercial side, or the seam between them. In every case the standard is the same: real adoption by people who have no obligation to use us, and a concrete outcome for the project as a result. You'll also be at the front of how AI shows up in our products. A meaningful part of our ambition depends on AI doing genuinely hard things well in a domain with very little tolerance for confident nonsense, the stakes for our users are commercial and often contractual. You'll be the person who decides where AI earns its place, and where it doesn't. Team You'll be part of our Product team, working shoulder to shoulder with engineering, design, and our consultancy delivery teams, who are on live projects every day and are the sharpest feedback loop any product team could ask for. You'll also work closely with growth and customer success to make sure what we build reaches the people who need it. Your top five responsibilities Own the outcome: You will own a product area end to end, the problem, the strategy, the roadmap and the results. You'll define what success looks like in customer and commercial terms, and you'll be honest about whether we hit it. Get close to the problem, on both sides: You'll spend real time on live projects, in the site cabin and in the commercial meeting, with our consultancy teams, and in the data. You'll build a deeper understanding of how a construction project actually runs, and of the commercial machinery behind it, than most people in our industry have, and use it to make sharp calls about what to build and what to refuse. Ship AI that holds up in the real world: You'll take AI features from concept to production in a domain where being wrong has consequences. You'll design for human-in-the-loop where the stakes demand it, set the bar for evaluating output quality, and make sure we never ship something that sounds confident and is wrong. Drive the roadmap and the trade-offs: You'll sequence work into cycles, make the hard prioritisation calls, and communicate them clearly enough that everyone from an engineer to a founder u