Product Manager (m/f/d)

Zeitgold was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin and Tel Aviv. Co-founders Stefan Jeschonnek (MBA, Stanford) and Jan Deepen (PhD, WHU) previously co-founded fintech company SumUp. Stefan and Jan teamed up with Kobi Eldar (8200 alum), who led a cybersecurity unit in the Israeli Defense Forces and had leading roles in several Israeli tech companies.
We are backed by Battery Ventures (investor also in GoEuro and N26), Holtzbrinck Ventures (investor also in Zalando, Flixbus and SumUp) and a number of well-known business angels from Germany, Silicon Valley, and Israel.
Join us in our office in Berlin Mitte!

Responsibilities

  • Figure out what people want; build it well with our amazing engineers and designers; ship it smoothly; make small business owners working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive
  • Identify needs through a combination of user research, collecting feedback from cross-functional teammates, diving into data, and competitive analysis
  • Define your product vision, strategy, and roadmap. And inspire people with it across the company.
  • Prioritize your and your teams work. Manage the backlog of features.
  • Ensure we ship a well-crafted product at a timely pace.
  • Define metrics for success and failure. Analyze and create dashboards for key metrics

Requirements

  • Experience in leading major product initiatives at a SAAS product company. Experience in a startup is a plus.
  • Demonstrated success owning technical products. Experience working on complex back-end systems and machine learning technology is a plus.
  • You love distilling the essence out of what you have learned and drawing conclusions and always have the big picture in mind.
  • You listen well and are deeply empathetic. You build consensus by default, but can drive hard decisions when you have to. You push the pace. You take the blame and pass on praise.
  • You are a self-motivated team player able to work in a small, fast-paced environment without much oversight. You can initiate and drive multiple projects concurrently.
  • Your solutions begin with a deep understanding of your customer. Past experience building customer-facing products is a plus.
  • Proficiency running SQL queries to quickly answer some of your data questions.
  • Able to accommodate infrequent travel to Berlin/Tel Aviv.

What we offer

  • A fast paced environment with meaningful work
  • A feedback-seeking culture that fuels personal growth
  • The chance to make a major difference in our team and in our customers’ lives
  • A super transparent information policy with flat hierarchies (we call this “we treat each other as adults”)
  • A great, international team of people passionate about technology and small businesses
  • Amazing offices in Berlin Mitte and Tel Aviv with healthy food and drinks provided—weekly Ping Pong tournament included ☺
Are you ready to start an exciting position in and Berlin's finest FinTech company? Then we are awaiting your application with interest!