Hey there! 👋  Here’s Brella in a nutshell 

Only established in 2016, Brella has already helped hundreds of thousands of people at events find jobs, colleagues, investors, etc., and is on a path towards rapid international scaling. We provide the world’s smartest event platform with the heart in networking and so far we have digitally transformed thousands of events across 60+ different countries worldwide. Our clients include well-known brands such as Google, Samsung, and TechCrunch as well as the world’s biggest event organizer such as Informa, IQPC, and Euromoney.

Will you be Brella’s next Product Manager? 🧐

Our product team has been growing fast and that’s why we are now looking for the first Product Manager to join our team that is building the product required to handle our rapid global growth. The product team at Brella incorporates design, front-end, and back-end engineering, quality assurance, and product management. We are now in need of someone who would help our team to work more systematically and efficiently towards our common goals and this is where you come in! We offer you a lot of freedom and ownership backed with a highly talented and international team. 

In your role, you’ll get an opportunity to build the next big thing for a $26 billion market that is growing steadily and nowadays also virtually: the event industry. So join us if you’re up for the challenge!

Why Brella & our Product team? 🚀

• The event industry is in the middle of a huge global transformation and Brella is in a great position to disrupt the market and come out as a big winner. 

• Unique development projects where you can truly see the impact of your work.

• Our fast global growth and relatively small size can offer lots of possibilities for high achievers.

• The rapidly changing event market offers endless learning opportunities - everyone keeps learning from one month to the next. 

• A truly international working environment with 20+ nationalities in the team. We embrace diversity, equal opportunity, and inclusion.

• We have a very strong people-first culture. You'll have the opportunity to grow with (and into) your tasks in a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

• Relaxed and open culture where we’re always willing to improve our ways of working.

• We have flexible working hours and great office facilities in the heart of Helsinki. We also offer remote work, so it doesn’t matter which city you are. 

• Comprehensive benefits package (e.g., lunch benefit, sports & culture benefit, and extensive insurance package, to name a few)

How would your daily work look like? 🖥️

• Effectively prioritize business opportunities from a wide range of inputs, and understand and prioritise this work so your team is always working on the most impactful projects.

• Translate findings into tangible customer problems, through research and regular interaction with customers; define and frame those problems into backlog items (epic/features/user stories) collaborating with the agile development team.

• Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions.

• Collaborate with different stakeholders during product discovery.

• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.

• Research and analyze the market, the users, and follow our competitors and the industry.

• Increase an understanding of Agile methodologies, Lean Startup, new technologies opportunities and best practices. Our team works in an agile way, but isn’t following any certain methodology. 

• Develop and create processes for the whole product team.

What kind of a Product Manager are you? 🦄

• You have 2+ years of experience from a similar role and responsibilities. 

• You have knowledge of lean and agile product development.

• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, since it’s our internal working language. No Finnish skills required!

• You are  a clear communicator of product decisions and the rationale behind them, comfortable in making decisions without consensus, and able to walk stakeholders and team members through your decision making.

• You have passion for tackling business opportunities through solving customer and user problems.

• You’re able to easily switch between thinking creatively and analytically, and between small and large scale thinking.

• You enjoy motivating a group of committed, talented people to create world class products following the product vision.

• You’re entrepreneurial with a generalist attitude.

What to expect from our recruitment process 

Before making any further decisions, you’ll meet 

 👋 Our CPO Mikko. He’ll tell you more about our awesome product team and our exciting growth plans.

👋 Our CTO Ville and Design Lead Raunaq. So you get a glimpse of our way of working. 

👋 Our Head of Talent & Culture Hanna. She’ll tell you more about our Brella culture & values.

Next steps ✅

In this role you would preferably work either in our Helsinki or Jyväskylä office, but you can also work fully remotely in Finland. 

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going! The position is filled as soon as we find the right fit.