Product Manager (German required)

what. AG is a consultancy that executes. We support our clients with their web presence, the creation of digital products, and their growth. All things digital are our playing field.

We build digital products both for startups and existing businesses. We help companies compete in new industries, adapt to an evolving competitive landscape, optimise processes, or to disrupt the way things have been done.

We are design driven. Our passion is to build products that scale. To bring things to market that succeed. Core to it all is the Build - Measure - Learn cycle from the lean startup and with our clients we take products from idea to product/market fit.

If you share our passion for building products the lean way, then this job offer is for you.

We want to strengthen our team with a Product Manager who will enrich our team with their skills and experience. Someone who truly cares about the quality of the things they work on. Someone who combines business, technology, and design to create well rounded experiences.

You are a process-oriented person, a structured thinker, have excellent communication skills and can integrate different views into a cohesive product vision. You are passionate about delivering results and understand the pragmatic balance that is needed between getting things right and getting them done. You know how to let designers be designers and how to let developers be developers.

As Product Manager you support multiple clients in their effort to bring ideas to market and to move them towards product market fit.

You help clients turn their problem definition into a validatable idea through running design sprints. You help define the scope of a product by running a scope workshop. You are the sparring partner to our designers in crafting the user experience, and you are the guide for our developers to turn the designs into a working product. All while you are the main contact to our customers ensuring their topic expertise is ingrained in the product and they are happy.

A few more things:

• We look for someone with a proven track record of creating working product concepts

• We look for someone with experience either in an Agency or a Startup

• We have found that programming or design experience (or both) helps a lot in understanding what’s possible

• A keen eye for what makes good design is important in this role

• Excellent spoken and written English and German is a requirement.

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At what. we believe that work should be fun and something you want to do and not something you have to do.

We help that along with the following:

• Excellent office location in Seefeld in Zürich, if you work in Switzerland.

• You take control of your availability - Need to take care of something in the morning and want to catch up later? No problem. We are results-oriented, we don’t micromanage.

• Flat hierarchy - Get decisions fast when you need them.

• You have a large amount of responsibility in your department. Do you want to change something? See possibilities to improve how we do things or what we do? The only thing needed is to speak up and we will discuss.

• Multicultural and multidisciplinary team with a focus on improving and learning. We want you to learn and grow which is why you will have access to individual training and guidance.

• 25 days holiday allowance for full time employees, and public holidays off too

• Fair compensation, with the possibility to join our profit participation scheme

• Opportunities to visit clients on-site in Switzerland

• Weekly remote pilates and stretching classes for all

Information for recruitment agencies: for this position, we only accept direct applications from candidates and will not consider applications from agencies.

If this sounds interesting and you would like to join our team, please send us a 1-2min intro video in German (we find Loom or YouTube work best), where you briefly introduce us to a product you worked on. Tell us about a hypothesis that turned out not to be true, and how you pivoted.

Please note that only applications with a cover note and an intro video will be considered.