Principal Product Manager or Head of Product, Central Product & Platform (x/f/m)

The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio

At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive our customers’ outcomes by designing, developing and delivering innovative and high quality products. Be empowered to take ownership of your areas and make an impact on your team, our product, and our customers. 

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to join our Central Product & Platform product area working on a series of critical horizontal initiatives for the company. These include teams owning the Mobile experience (on both iOS and Android), the Search, Navigation, Dashboard and Settings experiences and the Personio Design System.

This is a strategic and rewarding role that will shape the vision, strategy and execution of core surfaces for Personio. We believe in a low level of managerial overhead where our senior product people are hands-on in building. This role involves close collaboration with the department leadership group, working with a world-class product team, and (optionally) growing a small team of product managers. 

You have spent 7+ years building incredible product experiences for B2B or B2C platforms with diverse product offerings. You are great at working with designers and engineers to identify and develop performance and scalable experiences that users love. You can drive collaboration autonomously on cross-platform initiatives with other product teams and are a great communicator.

Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Develop and execute a comprehensive global strategy for core horizontal products for Personio, including Mobile, Home, and Search, with your design and engineering counterparts
• Develop a scalable design system and front-end technical system for other teams to build into
• Align your team around strategic goals, relevant KPIs, and measures of success
• Identify new business opportunities by addressing unmet user needs and delivering differentiated solutions. Develop an opinionated command of our product differentiation strategy and its associated expression on Home and Mobile surfaces 
• Utilize usability studies, data analysis, and industry trends to generate insights for informed decision-making.
• Define and track appropriate goal metrics for the various product areas. Align your team around strategic goals, relevant KPIs, and measures of success
• Set high standards for product quality and craftsmanship within the team and set an example by directly contributing towards the product.
• Effectively resolve cross-team tradeoffs in a timely manner
  Directly own and contribute towards products owned by the team

• Shape team efforts to drive superior customer and product insights.
• Actively manage and coach reports to enhance their skills and deliver business value for Personio.
• Take ownership of the team's well-being by actively monitoring individual and collective morale, and addressing issues proactively.
• Maintain a high bar for talent, attracting, hiring, and integrating top-notch professionals

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in product management in a B2B or B2C multi-product company, specializing in the development of global customer-facing products
• Have experience thinking about or creating systems for other teams to adopt or build into
• Work in a complex product area using analytical problem-solving skills to make decisions
• Demonstrated success in conceptualizing, developing, launching, and scaling platform-backed products within a fast-paced environment.
• Have a business, technical or design background, a highly collaborative mindset, and direct experience implementing best-in-class solutions with design and engineering counterparts 
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to leverage data and metrics to support assumptions, formulate business cases, and establish OKRs
• Ability to think big yet pay attention to details, exhibiting a strong bias for action and the capacity to manage multiple competing priorities, fostering a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment  
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership; ability to work collaboratively in a result-orie