Product People is hiring a Senior / Lead Product Management Consultant (f/m/x)

Responsibilities

• Make Product People a category-defining company in the consulting space.
• Serve as an Interim Product Manager in mostly post-product market-fit digital-first companies ranging from series B to publicly listed.
• Solve for the clients AND our company. Prioritize ruthlessly. Make an incredible impact, bring clarity in chaos, execute flawlessly, and fast. Manage three parallel streams internally and externally.
• 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 business context with the client’s leadership team.
• 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.
• Coach the next generation. Train, mentor, and delegate relentlessly to help our Associate Product Managers strengthen their skills.
• 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 our internal initiatives.

Requirements

• You like Fixing the Mess in a High-ownership, High-visibility Role.
• Optimism as an Operating System.
• Driven, Collaborative, Kind, and Direct.
• Context Switching Ninja.
• Commercial Leadership.

Benefits

• Accelerate your personal and career growth. 10x your learning and networking opportunities by being exposed to multiple companies and teams each year. We give timely, candid, and direct feedback and expect you to do the same. We run 4-month performance reviews for each person. This helps us improve the team, maintain quality of service, and proactively promote people who show sustained performance at the next level.
• Amazing culture, structured onboarding and support network. We have a supportive, high-performance, and open culture. It starts with onboarding you well. We hire and retain the best people living our values while counseling to leave those happier elsewhere. We share knowledge generously while being excellent and candid with each other. Our onboarding guide contains everything you need, and if you need more, there’s our #help channel! We proactively share our learning with each other through sharing sessions and help each other resolve complex situations through peer mentoring.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Team size: 1-6. Structure: Manage 1-6 people depending on tenure, performance, and career ambitions. Collaborate with 2-3 colleagues daily.

Additional Information

• We operate in Central European Time 08:30-18:00 with breaks, and our team values fast collaboration. We accommodate a maximum time difference of +3.5 hours and -2 hours.
• We assign a higher ranking to the questionnaire below than CVs. And appreciated candidates that write well thought of and concise.