(Senior) Product Manager - all genders

About Us

Imagine having to live with only 60% of your salary from one day to the next. Don't worry. This is not what we're offering candidates applying to this role. But it is what will happen to the vast majority of people in Europe on the day of their retirement – if they rely only on public pension.

At prosperity solutions, we're tackling this problem – the so-called pension gap – through digital experiences.

To succeed, we are looking for an eager Product Manager (all genders) with mid-to-senior experience, based anywhere in Germany or Portugal (remote), to join our team. This position is full-time.

Foreword

A word before you dive right in: We know how it feels! Scanning countless job postings, cutting through the copy-pasted, meaningless, cliché, and buzzword-ridden mumbo jumbo, desperately searching for that one thing that could somehow spark interest in a role:

"Dynamic and flexible environment," "sunny office," "competitive salary," "diverse and international team," "democratising the access to X," "we are a family" – have you ever heard stories of a toxic workplace, where this stuff hasn't been a part of the careers page anyway?

Our promise to you: We try to avoid the "empty phrase" game in our job postings (and being a toxic workplace, too, of course). If in doubt: Please apply, and in an interview, we will find out how the collaboration could look like.

The Role

We’re looking for a (Senior) Product Manager to own the core product—the foundation that makes everything else possible. You’ll work on both our Partner Portal (supporting our partners) and Consumer App (for our clients) and thereby have a crucial role within the company with lots of responsibility. The ability to reach our goals as a company is largely dependent on the core product working seamlessly. We’re looking for somebody who thrives on this real ownership and the impact that comes with while remaining a pragmatic team-player to get their hands dirty.

Your mission: ongoing improvement of the core user flows & key features, keeping product hygiene, increasing the quality of the team’s work, and elevating the overall user experience. Think annoying bugs, the last 5% to really nail something, the change that would make the UX so much better — the things that usually get pushed aside. If you see the value in getting the essentials right and making sure everything seems to just work™️, this could be the role for you.

This role requires to go deep into the details often while keeping the big picture in sight. You’re pragmatic, knowing when “good enough” is, in fact, good enough, and where it’s worth polishing. You’ll work with designers, developers, and other teams to make sure everyone’s on the same page—even without formal authority.

You will mainly contribute in three distinct stages:

1. Framing – You are understanding our product, industry, partners and consumers down to the T and always monitor our technical support. Through this, you are able to spot the areas where our core products need improvement and can make a case why it should be tackled or why not, combining the size of the problem, our current strategy and the effort of a potential solution.
2. Shaping – After we’ve determined a problem is worth solving, you support the product team in shaping what solution to build. You act as guardrails to ensure everybody understands the why & what and make sure that what we’re planning to build really targets the problem. You are continually providing knowledge about the business and user saying things like: “That’s certainly helpful, because from our user’s feedback this is the real pain point” or “This is related, but ultimately not the problem we want to solve here”. This stage is both explorative and abstract.
3. Building – Once the development starts, you keep collaborating closely and help to prioritize, making trade-offs if needed. Your main tool for this is sharing context about our business, users and regulations with the team. You empathize with our users and test from their perspective. You also help the other members remember the goal of the work when they might have been lost in the details. You’ll communicate the status of work internally, keep stakeholders updated and might even demo it after it has been released

In order to be able to do this, you’ll need to become a power of user of our products and know all the ins-and-outs of our business, organization and industry. Our favorite tool to give you a head-start there is to have you spend time in customer support shortly after joining.

Requirements

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Hard-Requirements

• Existing EU work permit
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Professional experience in product management, preferably in maintaining or improving a core product
• Native level language skills in either one of these languages: German, English, Italian, French

The Skills we’re looking for

• You have multiple years of professional experience in building software products, either in product management or a closely related role.
• You are able to deconstruct complex things into simple explanations, especially in writing, and can give examples for having done that in the past.
• You can bring designers, developers, and other stakeholders together on shared goals, guiding without needing formal authority.
• You are able to adopt & learn quickly, integrating what you’ve heard yesterday in today’s work while sharing all of your context with your teammates.
• Experience in industries like InsurTech, FinTech, or any tightly regulated field is a strong advantage, though not required.
• A background in product design, UX, or engineering is a plus.

The Person we are looking for

• You think in first principles, focusing on the outcomes you want to achieve rather than cargo-culting ideas from blog posts or insisting on certain rituals like story points and estimation sessions.
• You understand that every idea is only as good as its execution and therefore like to be down in the details of a solution to ensure it’s successful.
• You’re comfortable diving into the complexities of pension and insurance, understanding concepts to a degree where you can explain them to your teammates.
• You’re self-driven and cherish having responsibility for something. You act as a “manager of one” who can operate independently without close supervision.
• You enjoy working alongside teams, ensuring alignment and quality at every stage. You “win” when the entire team “wins”.
• You’re pragmatic, solution-oriented, and have a “bias to action” meaning you’d rather try something than make plans that might never get executed.

Benefits

Salary ranges

• L3 (Mid-Level): 65-75k
• L4 (Senior): 75-85k

To avoid confusion or disappointment: We have clear expectations for higher levels and the upper end of these salary bands. We will assess your seniority level during the interview process. These are our levels, so please don't expect having held a title previously is a guarantee for a certain level.

Bonus

We pay voluntary company-wide bonuses of an estimated 3-10%, if business performance permits, with a 100% track-record of doing so since 2019.

Benefits

• 40€/month VWL Cash value 480€/year
• Up to 50€/month internet cost reimbursement. Net cash value 600€/year
• Personal development budget
• Open Fridays: regular assigned work, work on things you want to work on, open source, personal education or don't work and recharge
• 22 vacation days (Fridays don't need a vacation day)
• Flexible hours
• Remote in Germany + 90 days per year work from anywhere (Berlin time +4h)

Process

Our process consists of four rounds. No homework. After them we are ready to offer.

If you fulfil the hard requirements we will respond to every application - positively or negatively.

We celebrate difference and diversity and pledge our commitment to an inclusive workplace.

We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.