R-29 · GRAVITY LOCK
LIVEFounding Product Manager, Gravity Lock
Not a translator between engineers and a roadmap. The person who decides what the ladder is.
FULL-TIME · FOUNDING · REMOTE · HYBRID WHERE THE WORK IS PARTNER-FACING
OPENINGS
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One. When it is filled, this page comes down.
BASE SALARY
£190,000 to £330,000
The band, published. The offer is the same whether or not you push for more.
EQUITY
0.35% to 0.85% of Gravity Lock
Founding equity in the company you would actually work on.
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The problem this role exists for
Gravity Lock's expansion ladder is currently a good instinct held by a small number of people. Turning it into a product means deciding which rungs generalise across partners, what each one is worth, and what the forward deployed engineers should be handed instead of rebuilding it each time.
This group has no product managers today, deliberately, because there is no layer to translate through. This role exists because Gravity Lock is the one venture whose product is assembled out of other ventures and sold to businesses that will not describe their problem in software terms. It is a commercial and product judgement job, not a coordination one.
More on the company itself: Gravity Lock →
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Your first week, and a normal Tuesday
Week one you go out with a forward deployed engineer to two partners and say very little. What you are looking for is the same problem showing up twice in businesses that have nothing else in common, because that is the definition of a rung worth building.
A normal Tuesday: partner conversations, a written case for or against a rung, and time with engineering deciding what stops being bespoke. Once a week you kill something, or you should be. One memo, read by the founder, on what you now believe.
WHAT YOU WOULD BE WORKING IN
Whatever gets you to an answer: SQL against partner data, spreadsheets, and the products themselves. You are expected to use Continuum and Scaley as a customer would, because you are deciding what a partner receives.
We do not screen on tools. Nothing above is a requirement, and a stack list is a poor proxy for whether somebody can do the work. If you have gone deep in something else and would arrive with a view about why half of this is the wrong choice, that is an argument we would like to have.
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What you would own
Not a ticket queue and not a slice of somebody else’s roadmap. Four things with your name against them in the decision log, from the first fortnight.
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The ladder
Which rungs exist, in what order, at what price.
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The reusable core
What stops being bespoke and becomes product.
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Partner evidence
You are in the room with operators, not reading a summary of it.
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The stop decision
Which rungs are not worth building, argued in writing.
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What we are looking for
MINIMUM
What we would need to see
- ▸You have decided from users and from data, and can point at something you killed
- ▸You have priced or sold something to a business that was not technical, and it worked
- ▸You can build the case against a rung as rigorously as the case for it
- ▸You are comfortable with no team to manage and a great deal to decide
PREFERRED
What would move you up the pile
- ▸SMB or mid-market software, where the buyer is the person who also runs the business
- ▸You have productised a services business, or watched one fail to
- ▸Enough technical depth to know what is cheap to build and what is not
- ▸Willingness to be on a partner's site regularly rather than occasionally
Nothing in the preferred column is a filter, and neither list is applied before a human reads you. No degree is required for anything on this page, and we have hired people with doctorates and people with no degree at all into the same rooms. If you meet most of the minimum and not all of it, write anyway and say in the first paragraph which part you do not meet.
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Pay, and everything around it
£190,000 to £330,000 base, plus 0.35% to 0.85% of Gravity Lock, reviewed upward annually without you having to ask. The band is published here rather than discovered three conversations in, and the offer is the same whether or not you negotiate, because the band is the band.
Everything else is what the whole group gets and is not negotiated per offer: a holiday floor rather than a ceiling, health and dental and vision for your family, sixteen to twenty weeks of parental leave for every parent, a funded setup, monthly paid group meetups somewhere in the world, one required funded trip abroad each year, a protected day a week on the research ventures, and no non-competes.
The full list, the salary band chart and the visa sponsorship map are on the careers page. We sponsor without qualification across seventeen jurisdictions and publish exactly which.
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Apply for this role
Four steps: a conversation with somebody who would actually work with you, one real problem drawn from work we are genuinely doing, a working session on your solution, and a decision within a week of that session. The problem is paid if it runs long, and you keep the work either way.