DataGuard is hiring a Senior Product Manager (m/f/d) to spearhead our AI-first product strategy. You will drive growth, adoption, and customer retention by defining core capabilities and steering the evolution of our security and compliance platform, solving complex problems at the intersection of compliance, security, and intelligent automation.
What You'll Do
- Transform customer challenges into coherent narratives and actionable initiatives to inform a roadmap that advances our AI-first platform strategy.
- Use security & compliance insights, customer behaviours and market opportunities to identify new avenues for intelligent automation.
- Work with the team to define a living 12-month roadmap across multiple product areas within our platform.
- Proactively communicate strategic direction and achievements across the organisation.
- Conduct monthly customer calls across target segments to uncover deep needs aligned with the company vision.
- Influence and embed stakeholder engagement into team rituals to ensure 80% of critical projects are delivered to expectation, on time and within budget.
- Regularly evaluate market health, competition, and win/loss data to shape product strategy.
- Translate regulatory shifts into product opportunities and position our platform for sustainable competitive advantage.
- Leverage AI tools for productive needs and share lessons learned with the broader team spanning scoping, research, QA, demo scripting, prototyping, and ideation.
- Lead periodic analysis of metrics, activation signals, and adoption data, owning outcomes while experimenting with new feedback capture methods to continuously improve product performance.
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years in Product, including 2+ years in B2B SaaS.
- Experience managing platform capabilities areas or product slices.
- Proven experience automating product workflows, leveraging AI for prototyping and ideation, and implementing AI-feature strategies with measurable customer adoption and business impact.
- Skilled in defining problems across multiple product areas and building modular roadmaps that deliver scalable, step-by-step value.
- Track record of conducting 10+ monthly customer conversations across segments, forecasting future customer needs to drive product strategy and roadmap prioritisation.
- Strong command of analysing sales, usage and product metrics whilst ensuring an outcome-focused experimentation approach.
- Experience in engaging and leading regular data reviews with cross-functional partners and influencing alignment on joint improvement initiatives.
- Willingness to develop a deep understanding of Privacy, InfoSec & Compliance domains while staying current with regulatory shifts and industry best practices.
- Obsession to lead with product demonstrations, that tie product releases to business outcomes, and communicate roadmap milestones with consistency across all stakeholder levels.
- Comfortable experimenting with emerging AI tools and lightweight testing methods.
- Strong understanding of software development processes, design principles, and ability to work effectively with Engineering teams on platform architecture decisions.
- Ability to debate, disagree and commit, challenge assumptions, and ensure exploration is broad yet focused and demonstrable, while maintaining empathetic stakeholder relationships.
- Be a reliable executor and deliver 80% of critical projects on time and within budget.
- C1-level German for smooth collaboration with DACH stakeholders.
Benefits & Compensation
- Access to the latest tooling and capacity to work with an ambitious international team with diverse skill sets.
- Freedom and trust to bring in and execute your ideas with a quick pace, autonomy, and the ability to make impactful decisions across multiple product areas.
- Gain strategic insights into management topics, contributing and working closely with leadership and peers on platform-wide initiatives.
- Rapid development opportunities, attractive performance bonuses.
- Opportunity to strengthen your leadership skills and AI-first product expertise.
- Step into a stable, forward-looking role within a dynamic scale-up poised to shape the fast-growing Security & Compliance industry.
Work Mode
This role can be based in Munich, Berlin, London, Stockholm, or Vienna.
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