Senior Product Manager

We're a professional services firm (B2B) focused exclusively on Interim Product Management services. Our mission is to help companies discover and deliver great products faster. We do unglamorous hands-on work of a Product Manager/Owner, Ops, or Product Leader on an interiM/Fractional basis (3+ months). We onboard fast, align teams, and deliver outcomes. What we don't do: we're not recruiters, a freelance marketplace, or a software development agency. You can find more details about our services in our presentation deck. **About The Role**: - **Help Product People become a category-defining company.** When people think of electric cars, they think of Tesla. For music, it's Spotify. When thinking about Product Management, they think of Product People. We aim to be a category-defining company in the professional services space. You'll own initiatives that lead us on this path (e.g., networking, process automation, product management knowledge sharing, etc.). - **Serve as an Interim Senior Product Manager**. Our clients are usually post-product market-fit from series B to publicly listed. You'll be driving complex cross-functional initiatives in B2C or B2B products. It can be anything from setting and reaching quarterly OKRs at a scale-up to Continuous Discovery/Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) or A/B tests elsewhere. - **Solve for the clients and our company.** **Prioritize, zoom in and out.** Make an incredible impact, bring clarity in chaos, and orchestrate flawless execution. Manage discovery and delivery for at least three parallel streams (internally and externally). You are good at unglamorous hands-on work and strategy. You understand how deep or wide you need to go when that's the case and when it's not. - **Effectively manage various groups consisting of strong personalities**. Adapt to their communication preferences. Integrate quickly and feel part of any team in days, not weeks. People love working with you and would work with you again despite you saying "no" to them a lot. Always come off as friendly, helpful, and accommodating, even when pushing back on irrational demands. - **Communicate** **a compelling narrative about the product.** And each existing or potential feature/capability you manage: "What job/problem does it solve?", "For whom?", "How big is the problem/market?", "What is success?" and why solving this matters in the first place. Understand, share, and shape strategic or business context with the client's CPO/VP/Director/Head of Product. - **Train the next generation of PMs. **Coach, mentor, and delegate relentlessly to help our (Associate) Product Managers strengthen their skills. Manage 1-6 people depending on tenure, performance reviews, and career ambitions. Collaborate with 2-3 colleagues daily. Break down complex initiatives into manageable, quantifiable work for the team. We use the teaching hospital method (watch, do it yourself under supervision, teach). - **Rinse and repeat.** Go on a new mission with a new client or in a new team, new domain, new product, or initiative every 3-6 months. Continue sharpening your edge and actively helping Product People's internal initiatives. **About You**: - **You like fixing the mess.** Like Marie Kondo, we come in when there's a mess. People go to the doctor too late; clients bring externals when they are in pain. And very few do preventive care. Create structure from chaos, and you'll find these adventures exciting while having the time of your life. - **Driven, collaborative, and kind**. People would leave higher-paying jobs at larger companies to work with you again. Clients you work with recommend us to other clients. You influence everyone with your pragmatic, kind, and effective style. - **High cognitive flexibility. **In most cases, you'll need to absorb a lot of knowledge and new ways of working within a few days. And we won't have all our clients' context on internal priorities and politics. You'll be surprised often, especially since clients are not always the most organized. - **Optimism as an Operating System**. You have a relatively high happiness set point. You are rarely rattled and handle high-pressure situations with timely, composed, and candid reactions. Our job is "humans all the way down" - no client wants to bring in a pessimistic, cynical, or attacking consultant. - **Direct feedback and open communication**. We give timely, kind, and immediate feedback to help each other grow and do excellent work for our clients. We expect that you give/accept it graciously, learn and adapt quickly. **What Makes Us Special**: - **Accelerated personal and career growth.** See behind the curtain of Europe's most exciting companies, from series B to publicly listed—10x your learning and network by working on many digital products, both B2B and B2C. - **Uncapped bonuses (quarterly) & profit participation (yearly). **Our 5th principle is: to _optimize for long-term profitability and growth_. Aligning incentives plays a huge role. We