Responsibilities
- Manage a product area completely: from identifying and validating a problem through planning, delivery, launch, and outcome assessment.
- Convert complex and unclear business challenges into clear product opportunities, priorities, and actionable plans.
- Collaborate directly with customers and internal stakeholders to understand the core business problem, rather than just turning requests into features.
- Define the product vision, roadmap, priorities, scope, and expected results for your area.
- Conduct product discovery, test assumptions, and assess different solution options before committing engineering resources.
- Work closely with a dedicated cross-functional engineering team during planning and execution.
- Balance customer needs, product strategy, technical constraints, commercial priorities, and long-term scalability.
- Make practical prioritization and scope decisions, including trade-offs between speed, quality, customer urgency, and long-term product value.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Sales, Customer Success, Analytics, and company leadership.
- Keep stakeholders aligned through clear communication, transparent decision-making, and proactive expectation management.
- Evaluate outcomes after launch and use customer feedback, product data, and business results to determine if the solution worked and what to do next.
- Identify problems and opportunities independently, initiate improvements, and take responsibility for advancing them.
- Help the company develop scalable product solutions that support new customer segments, markets, and industries.
Benefits
- Salary in USD (B2B contract with the US company)
- 100% remote – remote-first company, no offices needed
- Flexible working hours – core team time: 10:00-16:00 CET (flexible per team)
- 20 paid vacation days per year
- 12 holidays per year
- 3 sick leave days
- Medical insurance after probation
- Equipment reimbursement (laptops, monitors, etc.)
Compensation
Salary in USD (B2B contract with the US company)
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide) — remote
What Ownership Means to Us
We’re looking for someone who: notices problems and opportunities without waiting for them to be assigned; asks the right questions before jumping to a solution; can clearly explain their personal contribution and decisions, not only what the wider team did; understands how product work connects to customer and business results; follows an initiative through execution and launch rather than stopping after discovery or ideation; communicates early when the scope, timing, or expected outcome is at risk; makes progress in uncertain situations without waiting for detailed instructions; challenges stakeholders constructively when a requested solution does not address the real problem; takes responsibility for the outcome, not only for completing a particular part of the process; can openly discuss unsuccessful decisions, lessons learned, and what they would do differently.
What Else Matters?
- Product thinking — You start with the problem, customer context, and expected outcome rather than immediately jumping to features.
- Execution focus — You can define a direction and then work closely with the team to turn it into a real product.
- Entrepreneurial mindset — You identify opportunities, propose solutions, and find a way forward without relying on a rigid process.
- Structured thinking — You can organize incomplete and conflicting information, identify missing context, and explain your reasoning clearly.
- Adaptability — You can adjust your approach when priorities, customer needs, or market conditions change.
- Communication — You make progress, decisions, risks, and dependencies visible to the people around you.
- Business judgment — You understand that a B2B product needs to balance long-term strategy with customer and commercial realities.
- Accountability — You are comfortable making decisions and taking responsibility for the result.
Why Join Sweed?
- Real product influence — You will have the opportunity to shape product direction, not only manage an existing backlog.
- Space for initiative — If you identify an important opportunity, demonstrate its business value, and are ready to own it, you can turn it into a real product investment.
- Ambitious scale — We’re preparing the platform for further growth, new markets, and new industries.
- Direct customer impact — Your decisions can influence retailers’ revenue, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
- Meaningful ownership — Strong Product Owners can expand their scope and take responsibility for larger product areas based on their impact.
- Complex product challenges — You’ll work with a connected platform that combines multiple retail products and business processes.
- International environment — You’ll collaborate with a globally distributed team and US-based customers and stakeholders.
Other
- English at B2+ level or higher, including the ability to discuss complex topics, present decisions, and work with US-based stakeholders.
- Hiring Process: Recruiter Call — approximately 45 minutes; Product Competency Interview — approximately 60 minutes; Final Interview with Product Leadership — up to 60 minutes.
