Associate Product Management Consultant in Berlin bei Product People

Product People provides Interim Product Management services for parental leaves or slow hiring. We do the unglamorous hands-on work of a Product Manager/Owner or Product Leader on an interim/fractional basis at ~100 different companies per year. We serve clients only via our in-house Product Managers who onboard fast, align teams, and deliver outcomes. Clients include Zalando, DeepL, Ecosia and the World Health Organization (WHO).

• Help Product People be category-defining in the consulting space. When people think of electric cars, they think of Tesla. For music, it's Spotify. When thinking about Product Management, they should think of Product People. You'll own or contribute to initiatives to lead us there: playbooks, product management knowledge sharing, networking, process automation, etc.

• Support Senior Product Management Consultants who serve as Interims. Our clients are usually post-product market-fit from series B to publicly listed. You'll be supporting the client facing PMs who drive 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. Support the client facing PMs to 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. Help the client facing PMs 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 have uncapped quarterly bonuses (e.g., €3,000 employee referral, €1,000 client expansion, €1,000 when a client returns, etc.). In March, we split a % of last year's profit between all eligible employees.

• Amazing culture. We havea supportive, high-performance, and open culture.It startswith onboarding you well. We hire and retain the best people living our values while counseling to leave those happier elsewhere. We sh