Responsibilities
- Lead a high-performing product organisation
- Own and evolve the product strategy for the Business Acceleration Tech Area, connecting the dots across Console, Identity, Monetization, and Business Acceleration tracks into a cohesive, compelling vision
- Lead and coach a team of Product Managers, setting clear goals, building their product skills, and creating an environment where they do their best work
- Drive the org design and ways of working so teams have clear ownership, tight feedback loops, and deliver measurable impact
- Act as a domain expert and decision-maker on complex, cross-cutting topics, particularly around enterprise billing, identity & access management, and internal platform adoption
- Structure and drive complex, ambiguous decisions: defining options, trade-offs, and recommendations that stakeholders and executives can act on
- Communicate strategy clearly and concisely to diverse audiences, from engineering teams to C-suite stakeholders
- Drive enterprise customer outcomes
- Own the strategy and roadmap for how large organisations onboard, manage teams, configure access, and scale DeepL usage across thousands of users
- Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and key accounts to understand enterprise requirements and build features that win competitive deals and reduce churn
- Develop and maintain scalable measurement tools (e.g. enterprise maturity scorecards, outcome-focused metrics) to track progress and communicate it to executive leadership and the board
- Enable other product teams at DeepL
- Jointly with Engineering define and drive the platform strategy for how new DeepL products (Voice, future launches) integrate account, team management, and billing capabilities into their user experiences
- Collaborate across tracks with PMs and Track Directors to understand what teams need, identify reusable patterns, and help your teams drive adoption of the platform through value, not mandates
Requirements
- 8+ years of product management experience, including time as a Group PM or Lead PM managing other PMs and multiple product teams simultaneously
- Strong B2B SaaS background, ideally with experience across both customer-facing enterprise products (identity, access, billing, admin) and internal platform/tooling work
- Experience building for large enterprises (Fortune 500 scale), with a track record of shipping features that unblock enterprise deals
- Platform thinking: you understand internal adoption challenges and know how to build capabilities that teams want to use
- Strong coaching and team leadership skills: you know how to develop PMs, set meaningful goals, and create clarity even when the problem space is complex
- Data-informed: you establish baseline metrics, validate hypotheses with evidence, and make decisions with incomplete information when needed
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbal, with the ability to adapt your style for engineering teams, executive audiences, and enterprise customers alike
- Comfortable influencing without authority: you can build trust with senior stakeholders, navigate competing priorities across teams, and drive alignment even when the path forward is contested
Benefits
- Diverse and internationally distributed team: joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities. We're more than just colleagues; we're a group of professionals with a shared mission to connect diverse cultures. Our global presence is growing–we've doubled in size nearly every year, with our employees based in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and we continue to expand our network.
- Open communication, regular feedback: as a language-focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication. We value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy makes us better together.
- Remote work, flexible hours: whether you're near or in our hubs in cities like Cologne, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, or prefer the comfort of your own home, you decide where your office is. We offer remote opportunities, flexible working hours and trust in your productivity, all in sync with your team's general locations and time zones to foster effective and seamless collaboration. Our aim is to integrate your work with your lifestyle, ensuring a balance that respects both your needs and our operational requirements.
- Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are as unique as our team, from local team and business unit gatherings, to new-joiner onboardings, to company-wide events that bring us all together–literally.
- Monthly full-day hacking sessions: every month, we have Hack Fridays, where you can spend your time diving into a project you're passionate about and get the opportunity to work with other teams–we value your initiatives, impact, and creativity.
- Comprehensive health insurance: your health comes first. With our comprehensive insurance, we'll make sure you're covered from head to toe.
- 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind. With 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources, we make sure you're as strong mentally as you are professionally.
- Annual learning budget: because we never stop learning, we’ve set up an annual budget for your professional development—pick a learning path which contributes to your career development and we'll back you up.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Team size: over 1,000 passionate employees. Structure: The Business Acceleration Tech Area is at the heart of that shift: the engine behind how we grow, retain, and scale our customer base, from individual subscribers to Fortune 500 enterprises. The area spans four tracks: Console, Identity, Monetization, and Business Acceleration, with dedicated product teams focused on end-to-end user journeys across onboarding, access management, billing and payments, internal platform enablement and go-to-market efficiency.
Additional Information
- If this role and our mission resonate with you, but you're hesitant because you don't check all the boxes, don't let that hold you back. At DeepL, it's all about the value you bring and the growth we can foster together. Go ahead, apply—let's discover your potential together. We can't wait to meet you!
- We are an equal opportunity employer You are welcome at DeepL for who you are - we appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our diversity that we will find the power to break down language barriers in the world.
