spacebands
Product Manager / Product Owner (Fully Remote Start Up)
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About Spacebands
At Spacebands, we’re building technology that keeps people safe. Our wearable devices help high-risk workplaces monitor hazards and worker wellbeing in real time, preventing injuries/accidents before they happen. Primarily, we focus on reducing occupational exposure of noise, vibration and proximity-based hazards.
We’re a small, ambitious startup backed by multiple VCs, with funding secured and strong commercial traction in the market. This means we’re in a stable position to grow organically, without relying on immediate further fundraising.
Our team works across hardware, firmware, software, and AI, and we’re looking for a Product Manager who thrives in a fast-moving, hands-on environment and is happy to get stuck in across the business (wearable, dashboard and mobile app).
Spacebands was initially founded to create and sell our contact tracing device during the lockdown in 2020, and delivered over 20,000 units to customers across 30 countries, attaining significant press coverage (BBC news, Sky news, ITV). This set the company up to establish itself with major clients, including the NHS, Amazon, Sony, and Panasonic. As the COVID-19 pandemic closed, we asked our customers what we should build next. The business' latest offering is centred around our health and safety wearable devices that alert staff when a hazardous event presents itself (such as a loud noise/vibration threshold warning, or an unauthorised access zone warning). Event data is then saved, so that it can later be analysed by health and safety managers from the spacebands dashboard and mobile app.
Our patent-protected wearable devices do not use WIFI, or any cellular connection (4g/5g). Instead, they host an array of sensors internally and only share data when they are placed on charge (the charging station can be connected to a local WiFi network). Spacebands is a ‘big brother’ tracking device; but rather, a device that's only purpose is to ensure that people are kept safe at work.
The Role
You’ll take ownership of our product roadmap, testing, certification and partner integration. Shaping, building, and scaling our current and next-gen products. Working closely with the founder, Ronan Finnegan, you’ll make product decisions, manage a small engineering team, and contribute directly to the direction of the business.
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You’ll also collaborate with manufacturing partners in Taiwan, ensuring smooth integration between software and hardware. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys planning and problem-solving across multiple areas.
What You’ll Do
- Work closely with founder, Ronan Finnegan, to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team
- Manage our product roadmap (features and capabilities of our product) with a high level of autonomy that leads to the delivery of value, with their measures of success defined, monitored and communicated.
- Manage relationships with other products that we will integrate into our system
- Speak with customers to troubleshoot issues and collect feedback
- Define and maintain product strategy
- Work closely with our designer to create wireframes and mockups of UX/UI (across desktop and mobile)
- Manage weekly activities of the product development team to ensure timely project delivery
- Collaborate with the team to discover and development future product features
- Evaluate, analyse, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain documentation.
- Coordinate with manufacturing partners in Taiwan on firmware, testing, and production
- Coordinate product certification processes
- Be versatile and willing to get involved across the business - this is a hands-on startup environment
What You Bring
- A mix of strategic thinking, problem-solving, and hands-on delivery
- Personality: Charismatic, Diligent, Self-Motivated, Enthusiastic
- Proven experience leading projects or small teams
- Proven experience integrating products together
- Good communication skills; excellent English language skills both written and spoken
- You possess excellent problem solving, analytical and communication skills
- You pay strong attention to detail and deliver high quality work in a timely manner.
- Experience or an interest in technology or design
- Experience meeting deadlines
- Tenacity and an ability to adapt to new situations quickly and think on your feet
- You have high attention to detail and won't compromise on precise and effective user-centric design to solve customer problems
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Why Join Us
You’ll join a stable, VC-backed startup with real traction, building technology that makes a tangible difference in people’s safety. You’ll have autonomy, visibility, and impact, shaping the product, team, and company. In our small team, every contribution matters, and your work will be seen and valued.
Our Stack
We’re modern, pragmatic, and flexible.
- React + Next.js: Web applications are the lion’s share of the work; deep expertise required
- React Native: Mobile apps for field workers; experience is beneficial but not as critical as React web
- TypeScript & Node.js: Across backend, web, and mobile
- Postgres + Supabase: For database and real-time updates (any relational DB experience helps)
- Prisma: For schema management (ORM experience transferable)
- Railway & Vercel: For hosting, scaling, and orchestration (general cloud/CI/CD knowledge sufficient)
- OpenAI integrations: Currently light but with big plans to expand this offering
- CI/CD, testing, observability: pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: £35,000 – £45,000 base (depending on experience)
- Equity: Meaningful share options, real ownership in what you build
- Remote-first: Work anywhere in the UK (or ±1hr time zone)
- Flexible hours: We focus on outcomes, not clock time. 11am - 4pm (GMT) core mandatory hours, with 3 flexible hours worked around this.
- Unlimited holiday
- High impact: Build the product, grow the team, and influence company direction
- Growth opportunity: You’ll have the opportunity to own a product that truly makes a difference, collaborate directly with the founders on shaping strategy and technical direction, build and lead the engineering team from scratch, and position yourself for a future CTO role as the company grows.
Please share your cover letter and CV with ronan@spacebands.com
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