About the role
Powering Great Work
We started as the place to find a trusted trade. Now, as we shape the future of home improvement, we're building the tech to transform that landscape for everyone - better products, smarter data, AI where it actually helps - so trades can spend less time on admin and consumers can find someone they trust, first time. That's Powering Great Work, and it's why every team here exists:
🔧 Trades spend less time on admin and more on winning work and growing their business
🏠 Homeowners get a trusted trade, first time, every time
🚀 We get to build products that change homes and lives across the country
As our next Principal Product Manager, Matching & Monetisation, you'll own the part of Checkatrade where homeowners and tradespeople meet, and where trades pay for the leads that get them work. That means how we match jobs to the right trades, how we price and package leads, and how we grow the Opportunity Board, our fast-growing self-serve marketplace. It's product craft with real commercial ownership: you set the vision, define what great looks like, and ship it.
The job, unfiltered:
* Own the leads marketplace end to end (Matching, Monetisation and the Opportunity Board) with a clear view of how they work together.
* Grow the marketplace commercially, making honest trade-offs between growth, value to trades and long-term marketplace health.
* Make matching smarter, so the right job reaches the right tradesperson, working closely with Data Science.
* Evolve how we price and package leads, using dynamic pricing to unlock new value.
* Scale the Opportunity Board into a major way trades win work.
* Set and hold the quality bar for a two-sided marketplace, earning trust across Product, Data Science, Engineering and our commercial teams by delivering.
The fit:
* Extensive experience in senior product roles, owning a revenue-generating or marketplace product at scale.
* Marketplace depth: you understand liquidity, supply and demand, matching and distribution.
* Commercial and pricing fluency: dynamic pricing, packaging and subscription or pay-as-you-go economics are familiar ground.
* Strong analytical instincts, and a habit of using data and experimentation to decide.
* A track record of shipping: you drive delivery, remove blockers and move fast without dropping quality.
* The vision and ambition to see where a marketplace should go, and to bring people with you.
(Don't self-select out because you don't tick every box. We'd rather meet you.)
What you get
💰 Competitive salary, annual bonus & equity scheme
🩺 Health, wellbeing and learning support
🚲 Gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme, Cycle Scheme
🎂 Birthday/special day leave, buy & sell holiday scheme
❤️ 1 week's paid charity leave, and more
How this goes
* Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners
* First stage: interview with our Head of Monetisation (the hiring manager)
* Second stage: panel interview with our VP Marketplace and a Principal Product Manager
* Final stage: case study presentation with our VP Marketplace and Head of Monetisation
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About us
We’re Checkatrade – the UK’s leading platform for finding a tradesperson. With more than 50,000 trades listed and over 6 million reviews, we help homeowners get jobs done right and help tradespeople grow their business.
We’re growing fast, with big plans to become the go-to brand for home improvements. If you care about great work, take pride in the details, and want to make an impact, you’ll fit right in.