Product Manager
GermanyMid-level
A ready-to-adapt job description template for the Product Manager role: responsibilities, profile, and what to offer.
Mission. You define and steer the trajectory of a product or a product area: user discovery, prioritization, trade-off decisions, tracking the business impact. You work closely with a team of [X] engineers, [1-2] designers and the sales, customer success and marketing functions. You report to the [Head of Product / CPO / CEO / management].
Key responsibilities
- Run continuous user discovery: interviews, prototypes, behavioral observation, reading quantitative signals.
- Define and maintain the roadmap of the area: 1-3 strategic initiatives per quarter, aligned with the overarching product strategy.
- Prioritize incoming requests (sales, customer success, management, internal team), separate signal from noise and quantify opportunity costs.
- Write product specs: problem, target users, success metrics, explicit scope, key decisions.
- Facilitate the product cadence: weekly product (45 min), monthly roadmap review (90 min), quarterly retrospective.
- Measure the impact of delivered initiatives on business metrics (activation, retention, conversion, ARR) and adjust the trajectory.
- Represent the product to sales, customer success and marketing: internal demos, training, support on strategic accounts.
Profile
- Essential: 3 to 7 years of experience in product management or an equivalent role (lead designer with product responsibility, founding engineer with a product hat, etc.); at least one stint in B2B SaaS or a scale-up; operational command of user discovery (interviews, prototypes) and of prioritization under uncertainty.
- Desired: experience in a product phase close to your own (PMF under construction vs. established PMF); familiar with analytics tools (Mixpanel, Amplitude or equivalent); commercial confidence (comfortable in sales demos and listening in on customer success calls).
- Disqualifying: no structured discovery experience; refusal to engage in field functions (sales, customer success); a purely executing Product-Owner posture.
What we offer
- Gross annual compensation: fixed [55-82] k€ depending on experience. No structural variable component; VSOP (virtual shares) depending on the company's phase.
- Model: [full-time, hybrid 2-3 days / week on-site, based in [city] / remote-friendly].
- Benefits: [company pension, bike leasing, virtual shares, vacation, home-office policy, professional development and conference budget, access to analytics and discovery tools].
- Stack and product tools: [to complete: roadmap (Productboard, Linear, Jira), analytics (Mixpanel, Amplitude), discovery (Dovetail, Maze), design (Figma)].
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