Group Product Manager (in Leipzig)

About Staffbase

In a polarized world, we inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication so they can thrive in the Narrative Age. Our award-winning communications channels – intranet, employee app and email – deliver experiences that drive engagement and inspire hearts and minds.

We’re headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in many locations throughout the world, including New York, London, Berlin and Dresden. Our international team counts more than 750 employees from 45+ nationalities and we have a growing base of 2200+ customers that want to transform their employee experience. We are rapidly scaling, post-Series E ($115 million funding), have strong-growing revenue, and our customers love us.

Staffbase is looking for a Group Product Manager to contribute to the sustainable growth of internal communication intelligence and management platform. In this role you will be responsible for the teams contributing to one of our largest product areas which is used to create & understand internal communication, as well as administrate all our customer facing products. You will be leading a team of 3-4 product managers.

An outstanding team of passionate, curious and customer value driven product managers is critical to the success of our company, as well as the companies of our customers. As we are leading and growing the internal communications space, you and your team will have the opportunity to help redefine the importance and purpose of internal communications in the enterprise segment. To date we serve more than 2000 of the largest organizations, reaching millions of employees across the globe.

We are looking for an inspirational Group Product Manager driven by product thinking, a customer centric attitude and commercial excellence.

What you’ll be doing

  • Scale, lead and develop a passionate, diverse and inclusive team of product managers 
  • Build a shared vision for your product domain, together with Senior Leadership and your team, across the company by establishing consensus on strategies and priorities to further grow our market dominance
  • Together with your team, develop a deep understanding of the needs of your customers and obsess about how it can be improved
  • Guide and remove roadblocks for your team and domain, to ensure that your team is constantly able to deliver products our customers love
  • Drive the growth and evolution of our industry leading internal communications platform, that enables internal communicators to manage and understand communication across all of Staffbase’s channels in to a single unifying platform
  • Understand and influence Staffbase’s strategy and positioning and deliver domain specific innovative products that are recognized as best in the industry
  • Partner up with your product leadership peers to ensure your domain strategy is well aligned with our overarching company and product strategy

What you need to be successful 

  • 6+ years of professional experience in a product role
  • 3+ years in leading diverse and ambitious teams
  • Experience with different types of products (mobile, web, data) and segments (SME, B2B, SaaS)
  • Experience building and connecting products into one platform
  • Ability to communicate vision, plans and roadmaps to anyone be it an engineer the CEO, both visually and in writing as well as communication skills to drive alignment between various stakeholders in a growing multi-national organization
  • A passionate leader with a proven ability to hire and grow high-performing teams who will be a strong partner to our product design and go-to-market teams
  • Extensive knowledge in different agile product methodologies as well as experience formulating success metrics for different products
  • Knowledge in Internal or External Communications and Platform Businesses is a plus
  • Passion, experience and eagerness to coach and mentor product managers to become their best selves

What you'll get 

  • Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including an Employee Stock Option Plan.
  • Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560.
  • Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000, and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year).
  • Wellbeing - in addition to our yearly vacation of 30 days, we’re running a 4-day-work week every year in August with full payment.
  • Support - we’re offering a company pension scheme.
  • Sports & Health - join our sport courses in the offices or lease a bike with Staffbase. The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks.
  • Team Building - Regular team and office events including the yearly Staffbase Camp.
  • Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project. We will donate a small amount for that project in addition.
  • Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid.

 

Leipzig

Also available in Berlin, Chemnitz, Dresden

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