Senior Manager, Product-Led Growth

London, UK (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Own activation funnel optimization by accelerating legitimate trial conversions, expand in-product onboarding, and drive data-led experimentation to scale PLG velocity across marketing and product. Own the end-to-end activation journey, coaching teams in analysis, AI-enabled tooling, and cross-functional rhythm to prove incremental ARR uplift.

  • Own the Free Trial → Legitimate Trial conversion, diagnosing drop-offs and running weekly hypothesis-driven experiments.
  • Scale Interactive Product Tours and activate in-product onboarding to boost activation and adoption.
  • Lead measurement, attribution, and data culture, coaching teams in Amplitude and building AI-enabled experimentation across marketing, product, and sales.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the Free Trial → Legitimate Trial Conversion BottleneckA Free Trial (FT) is a user who registers. A Legitimate Trial (LT) is a user who connects their accounting system — the activation moment. Once users reach LT, roughly half convert to Paid. The leverage is in getting more FTs to that activation moment. Diagnose and fix drop-off points in the signup-to-activation journey
  • Run continuous A/B experiments on the onboarding flow — hypothesis-driven, measured, iterated weekly
  • Test trust signals, messaging, and UI changes to improve confidence at the activation step
  • Investigate low-converting traffic segments with Digital Marketing
  • Deploy Refiner surveys to surface user intent, friction, and satisfaction at key funnel moments
  • Scale Interactive Product Tours
  • Increase Navattic tour distribution across the website and marketing campaigns
  • Expand tours beyond pre-signup into in-product onboarding for new and existing features
  • Activate the Intercom Messaging Engine
  • Design and deploy behavioural campaigns for users stuck at activation, approaching trial expiry, or who activated but haven’t converted
  • Build the post-signup email sequence — an early-stage opportunity with significant room to improve
  • Measurement, Attribution, and Data Culture
  • Partner with Digital Marketing to complete attribution setup — every trial user tracked by source
  • Track and prove incremental uplift: additional paid accounts PLG generates beyond the organic baseline
  • Coach 2–3 Product Managers in using Amplitude for their own product areas
  • Drive the Cross-Functional Rhythm
  • Establish regular sync with Product Marketing and Digital Marketing from day one — shared hypotheses, data, and priorities
  • Feed product insights back to Product Managers: adoption patterns, churn signals, and expansion triggers
  • Use AI to Accelerate Everything
  • Speed up experiment design, analysis, and content creation using AI tools
  • Produce design mockups and prototypes for onboarding experiments without waiting for a designer
  • Stay current with new AI tools that increase PLG velocity and quality

Requirements

  • Proven PLG track record — you’ve owned a self-serve funnel in B2B SaaS and moved conversion metrics materially. Not ‘contributed to’ — owned.
  • Deep data fluency — comfortable pulling event streams, segmenting cohorts, building charts, telling the story, and acting on it
  • Experiment velocity — shipped multiple A/B experiments per month, not per quarter
  • Hypothesis-driven mindset — every initiative framed as ‘We believe [X] because [Y], and we’ll know by measuring [Z]’
  • Cross-functional influencer — worked across Marketing, Product, and Sales without needing positional authority
  • People management — you will hire and manage the PLG Lead. This is a people manager role.
  • AI-fluent — you actively use AI tools to increase your speed and output
  • Strong communicator — credible, concise, and comfortable presenting data-driven narratives to senior leadership

Preferred

  • Integration-gated SaaS experience — products requiring users to connect external systems before activation
  • Intercom or equivalent in-app messaging — behavioural campaigns, not just broadcast messages
  • Accounting or fintech SaaS experience — understanding the bookkeeper/accountant buyer persona
  • Design capability — can produce low-fidelity wireframes and Figma mockups

Benefits

  • Growing international business with 20,000+ customers worldwide
  • Remote office assistance
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ApprovalMax is an award-winning B2B software platform used by businesses around the world to build robust financial controls. It streamlines the approval process by allowing users to create automated workflows to approve bills and invoices. ApprovalMax integrates with platforms such as Xero, QuickBooks Online, and NetSuite to unlock powerful efficiencies for accounts payable and accounts receivable functions in any finance team.

Founded in 2016
London, England, GBR
130 employees (13 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
472.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$44.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
20.1%
Direct
74.9%
Referral
3.9%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~130

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (8% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$12.9M
Last Raise
$12.9M
Private Equity, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2024
    Private Equity • $12.9M