Product Lead

Stora is the operating system for modern self storage. We give operators everything they need to run and grow their business in one platform: online bookings, payments, facility management, reporting, and automation. Every site scales without added complexity. In just over 5 years, we've helped 700+ operators across the globe process more than £100m in automated payments, with customers seeing an average of 32% business growth. We're a fast-moving team ahead of where the industry is going. If you want to work on a product that operators depend on every day, in a company that's genuinely rethinking how it builds and operates, this is it.

Why this role matters

We have a strong product team, great engineers, and a growing product. The bottleneck isn't ideas or execution capacity. It's people who can hold the full picture at once: what the business needs, what the customer actually experiences, what's technically feasible, what to cut when time is short — and knowing when to slow down. Making good calls across all of it. That's the job.

We've shortened the loop between insight and shipped product. Not by cutting corners, but by removing the layers that slow good judgement down. This role exists to keep doing that.

How we actually work

We've changed how product gets built at Stora. Not as an experiment, but as how we operate today. Designers work directly in the codebase. Engineers and product people work closely together from the start. AI is used genuinely — to explore, prototype, and move faster. The work gets closer to reality, sooner.

If you're at a company that talks about moving faster but runs the same process it did three years ago, this will feel different. We're not done evolving how we work, and this person will have real scope to shape that. Not just fit into a system, but improve it.

What you'll do

• Own a problem space end-to-end, from understanding the customer need to something live in the product.
• Work directly with engineering leads. Close collaboration, not handoff.
• Make scope calls. Know what to cut, what's fundamental, what can wait.
• Work with or without a designer. Sometimes you'll work alongside one, sometimes you'll do it yourself. What matters is the outcome.
• Stay close to customers, talk to operators, understand how they run their businesses, bring that into every decision.
• Shape how we work. The process isn't fixed. If something's slowing things down, fix it.

What you'll bring

• At least 2 years in a product role at a SaaS company, owning features or problem spaces end-to-end. You may have been a designer in a previous life, or an engineer, or something else, but you have great product taste and judgement.
• You know what good looks like and can tell the difference between a solution that works and one that just ships.
• You understand that product decisions are business decisions.
• You don't need everything defined to make progress. You define it yourself.
• Comfortable working directly with engineering leads without a translator.
• You can contribute to or evaluate design decisions meaningfully.
• You use AI as a natural part of how you think and work. Not waiting to be shown how.
• You can influence without authority. You bring people along, build alignment, and make things happen through collaboration, not hierarchy.

This role is not for you if

• You need a detailed brief before you can start.
• You're more comfortable in process than in product.
• You think good product work stops before it ships.
• You want to join a company that's already figured everything out.

What we offer

• Competitive salary.
• Share options.
• Hybrid working.
• 35 days holiday.
• Private health insurance (for you + family).
• Company pension plan.
• Apple hardware.
• Learning & development support.

Next steps

We're reviewing applications as they come in and will be in touch quickly if it looks like a match.

Equal Opportunities at Stora

Stora is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religious belief or political opinion, or sexual orientation. All recruitment and employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and business need. We actively promote equality of opportunity and fair participation in line with our responsibilities under Northern Ireland equality legislation. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.