Lead Product Manager
On-siteBerlin, State of Berlin, Germany
Job Summary
Lead the product team responsible for Forto's financial execution flow, owning the Financials product domain that transforms commercial commitments, costs, revenue, and margin into reliable financial execution. Drive strategy across revenue, cost, invoicing, VAT, FX, reporting, and customer-facing financial flows while turning critical operational and data problems into clear product direction. Coach two Product Managers to strengthen their ownership, judgement, and strategic thinking within this complex logistics and finance intersection. Explore AI-enabled solutions to improve automation, exception handling, and decision support. Build strong narratives that align Finance, Tax, Operations, Engineering, and Leadership around difficult decisions to protect margin and reduce leakage.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of Product Management experience in a complex B2B, platform, logistics, supply chain, financial systems, marketplace, or enterprise product environment
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or managing Product Managers, ideally for at least 2 years
- Strong systems thinking: you can connect product, process, data, operations, commercial logic, and financial outcomes
- Strong product judgement in ambiguous environments: you do not wait for a perfect map before moving forward
- Proven ability to influence through clear narrative: you can align senior stakeholders, explain trade-offs, and help groups with competing priorities commit to a direction
- Comfort working in financially sensitive, operationally critical, regulated, or audit-relevant environments
- Practical AI literacy, including experience using, shaping, or evaluating AI-enabled products, automation, or decision-support capabilities
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in logistics, freight forwarding, supply chain, procurement, cost control, or operational platforms
- Experience in financial systems, billing, accounting-adjacent products, pricing, tax, reporting, or financial control
- Experience leading product work in domains with high regulatory, audit, data-quality, or operational reliability requirements
- Experience applying AI or LLM-based capabilities to operational workflows, exception handling, automation, or decision support
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