About the Role
This role offers a unique opportunity at the intersection of executive strategy and hands-on product leadership, working directly with Zapp's Founder and Senior Leadership Team. You will shape the company's key product initiatives and own the end-to-end consumer mobile (iOS) experience. This is a strategic partner role to the Founder, focusing on consumer product strategy, defining the roadmap, driving alignment, and accountability for outcomes across the customer funnel.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the Founder on consumer product direction, surfacing insights, identifying opportunities, and shaping decisions.
- Translate the Founder's vision into an executable product strategy for the consumer mobile (iOS) experience.
- Represent the product function in senior leadership discussions, crafting compelling, data-backed narratives.
- Act as a connector between the Founder's Office and the wider engineering and design organization.
- Own the entire consumer mobile experience, from first app open and onboarding through to checkout, delivery tracking, and post-order engagement.
- Define and manage the consumer mobile product roadmap, making prioritization calls and maintaining alignment with Engineering and Design.
- Drive development of key iOS capabilities including push notifications, Apple Pay, personalized recommendations, real-time location tracking, and loyalty mechanics.
- Establish and own KPIs across the consumer funnel - activation, engagement, retention, and revenue.
- Stay ahead of iOS platform updates, consumer behavior trends, and best-in-class mobile UX.
- Lead and align stakeholders across Engineering, Design, Marketing, Commercial, and Operations.
- Own a portfolio of high-impact initiatives end-to-end.
- Identify and resolve structural blockers and systemic inefficiencies.
- Champion a culture of rigorous experimentation and data-led decision-making.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience spanning product management, strategy, or a combination, with evidence of working at or near executive level in a high-growth environment.
- Proven track record of building and scaling consumer mobile apps with high user engagement and retention.
- Deep understanding of the consumer product lifecycle (acquisition, activation, retention, re-engagement).
- Strong quantitative skills and a systems-thinking mindset.
- Executive presence and communication skills to influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience working directly with founders or C-suite leaders.
- Ability to work closely with mobile engineers and designers.
- Experience with mobile analytics platforms (e.g. Mixpanel, Amplitude).
- Strong grasp of the iOS ecosystem (Apple Human Interface Guidelines, Apple Pay, push notifications, real-time tracking, location-based services).
- Experience in on-demand delivery, grocery, e-commerce, or marketplace platforms.
- Background in strategy consulting or VC/PE.
- Experience preparing and presenting materials for board meetings, investor updates, or strategic leadership reviews.
Skills
- Product Management
- Strategy
- Consumer Mobile Apps
- Quantitative Skills
- Systems Thinking
- Executive Communication
- Mobile Analytics Platforms
- iOS Ecosystem
- On-demand Delivery
- E-commerce
- Marketplace Platforms
- Strategy Consulting
- VC/PE
Location
- Nine Elms, London
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- 7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary & equity package
Benefits
- A differentiated career opportunity with direct access to the Founder and Senior Leadership Team.
- Full ownership of a core product.
- Visible, consequential, and fast-moving work.
- Competitive salary & equity package.
- 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Private Health Insurance.
- Extended sick pay and maternity/paternity leave pay.
About the Company
- Zapp is London’s leading premium convenience retail platform.
- Founded in 2020, our vision is to disrupt the multi-trillion dollar convenience retail market, by developing best-in-class customer-centric technology and fulfilment solutions.
- Zapp partners with some of the world’s leading brands to deliver an exclusive range of hand-picked products 24/7, delivered in minutes.
