Product Management Consultant, German Speaking (f/m/x)
$70,000–$70,000 year
Remote
RemoteFull Time$70,000–$70,000 yearMedium
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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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