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People for the Ethical Treatment of AnimalsPosted 1 month ago

Product Management Consultant, German Speaking (f/m/x)

$70,000–$70,000 year

Remote

Full TimeMedium

Job Summary

Drive strategic and executional challenges for digital-first companies by prioritizing discovery, delivery, and complex cross-functional initiatives across B2C and B2B products. Craft compelling product narratives for client leadership while coaching Associate Product Managers through mentorship and delegation. Adapt to shifting priorities in high-impact client projects, ranging from setting quarterly OKRs to unblocking stuck initiatives, while maintaining professional fluency in German (C1 level) for all communication.

Required Qualifications

  • Professional fluency in German (minimum C1, CEFR) in both speech and writing
  • German-speaking engagement
  • Interim Product Manager
  • Post-product market-fit digital-first companies ranging from Series B to publicly listed
  • Category leaders
  • Companies navigating growth, innovation, or transformation
  • Driving complex cross-functional initiatives in B2C or B2B products
  • Setting and reaching quarterly OKRs at a scale-up
  • Continuous Discovery/Jobs To Be Done (JTBD)
  • A/B tests
  • Unblocking stuck initiatives
  • Craft and communicate compelling product narratives
  • Answer: What job/problem does this solve?
  • Answer: For whom?
  • Answer: How big is the market/problem?
  • Answer: What does success look like?
  • Answer: Why does solving this matter?
  • Share and help shape strategic context with clients' CPOs, VPs, Directors, or Heads of Product
  • Train, mentor, and delegate
  • Manage 1-6 people depending on tenure, performance reviews, and career ambitions
  • Collaborate with 2-3 colleagues daily
  • Break down complex initiatives into manageable, quantifiable work for the team
  • Teaching hospital method (watch, do it yourself under supervision, teach others to do it)
  • Go on a new mission with a new client or in a new team, new domain, new product, or initiative every 3-6 months
  • Arrive when things are messy and leave behind clarity, structure, and surprisingly joyful spreadsheets
  • Thrive in chaos
  • Emotional operating system is set to can-do
  • Stay calm during meltdowns
  • Deliver difficult truths with a smile and a plan
  • Be relentlessly polite, cheerfully persistent, and immune to drama
  • Be the teammate clients want back
  • Speak human, not jargon
  • Give feedback kindly
  • Take feedback well
  • Drop into an engineer's Slack thread
  • Jump to an exec pitch
  • Sketch out a roadmap
  • Roll with shifting priorities
  • Find the signal in the noise
  • Make magic across shifting priorities
  • Create boundaries that support effective collaboration
  • Think commercially
  • Get how businesses grow
  • Know where money comes from
  • Know which bets matter
  • Speak in impact, not just input
  • Know how to chase the outcome
  • Measure the outcome
  • Ship value without gold-plating the roadmap

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree, English major preferred

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