Product Management Consultant
Job description
Interim/fractional Product Management Consultant (L4) delivering product management services to post-product-market-fit digital-first client companies on 3-12 month missions. The role involves managing discovery and delivery across multiple streams, crafting product narratives, and coaching Associate Product Managers.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Pay
- EUR 40,000 – 80,000 / year
What you'll do
- Manage discovery and delivery for three streams at once, internally and externally
- Drive complex cross-functional initiatives in B2C or B2B products, from setting and reaching quarterly OKRs at a scale-up to Continuous Discovery/Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) or A/B tests, or unblocking stuck initiatives
- Craft and communicate compelling product narratives for every feature or capability (what job/problem it solves, for whom, market size, success criteria, why it matters)
- Share and help shape strategic context with clients' CPOs, VPs, Directors, or Heads of Product
- Train, mentor, and delegate to help Associate Product Managers strengthen their skills; 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
- Go on a new mission with a new client or in a new team, new domain, new product, or initiative every 3-6 months
- Actively help Product People's internal initiatives
What we're looking for
- Comfortable arriving when things are messy and leaving behind clarity, structure, and order
- Thrives in chaos and makes it fun
- Optimistic, calm during meltdowns, delivers difficult truths with a smile and a plan; relentlessly polite, cheerfully persistent, immune to drama
- Driven, collaborative, and charmingly direct; gives and takes feedback kindly
- Able to context switch across engineer Slack threads, exec pitches, and roadmaps; finds signal in the noise across shifting priorities; creates boundaries that support effective collaboration
- Thinks commercially: understands how businesses grow, where money comes from, and which bets matter; speaks in impact, measures outcomes, ships value without gold-plating the roadmap
- Adapts to communication styles and integrates quickly into teams
- Approachable, constructive, and professional even when challenging unrealistic demands
How to get hired
- 1Hiring process includes an unbiased blind review
- 2A questionnaire is ranked higher than CVs
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About Product People
The premier destination for Product Management services in Europe
Product People covers parental leaves, discovers/delivers great products, and accelerates transformation by acting as bar-raising pacesetters. It empowers a Product community of 60,000 members to share knowledge generously whilst managing the hands-on work of a Product/Program Manager or Product Ops on an interim/fractional basis (3-12 months).
Key facts
- Product Management services
- In-house recruitment process has a 0.3% acceptance rate
- Product community of 60,000 members
- Interim/fractional engagements of 3-12 months
- Operates in Central European Time
- Default is a 5-day workweek with optional 4-day workweek
- Offers Germany relocation to Berlin after 24+ months for L4+ levels
Partners & customers
What they value
- Share knowledge generously
- Be excellent and candid with each other