Associate Product Management Consultant (f/m/x)

Product People is the premier destination for Product Management services in Europe. Our in-house staff helps cover parental leaves, discover/deliver great products, and accelerate transformation by acting as bar-raising pacesetters. We empower our Product community of 50,000 members to share knowledge generously whilst managing the unglamorous hands-on work of a Product/Program Manager or Product Ops, on an interim/fractional basis (3+ months).

We onboard fast, align teams and deliver outcomes.

About The Role

1. Help Product People be category-defining in the consulting space. When people think of electric cars, they think of Tesla. For music, it’s Spotify. When thinking about Product Management, they should think of Product People. You’ll own or contribute to initiatives to lead us there: playbooks, product management knowledge sharing, networking, process automation, etc. 
2. Support Senior Product Management Consultants who serve as Interims. Our clients are usually post-product market-fit from series B to publicly listed. You’ll be supporting the client-facing PMs who drive complex cross-functional initiatives in B2C or B2B products. It can be anything from setting and reaching quarterly OKRs at a scale-up to Continuous Discovery/Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) or A/B tests elsewhere. 
3. Solve for the clients and our company. Prioritize, zoom in and out. Make an incredible impact, bring clarity in chaos, and orchestrate flawless execution. Support the client-facing PMs to manage discovery and delivery for at least three parallel streams (internally and externally). You are good at unglamorous hands-on work and strategy. You understand how deep or wide you need to go when that’s the case and when it’s not. 
4. Effectively manage various groups consisting of strong personalities. Help the client-facing PMs adapt to their communication preferences. Integrate quickly and feel part of any team in days, not weeks. People love working with you and would work with you again despite you saying “no” to them a lot.  Always come off as friendly, helpful, and accommodating, even when pushing back on irrational demands.
5. Rinse and repeat. Go on a new mission with a new client or in a new team, new domain, new product, or initiative every 3-6 months. Continue sharpening your edge and actively helping Product People's internal initiatives. 

About You

1. You like fixing the mess. Like Marie Kondo, we come in when there’s a mess. People go to the doctor too late; clients bring externals when they are in pain. And very few do preventive care. Create structure from chaos, and you’ll find these adventures exciting while having the time of your life.
2. Driven, collaborative, and kind. People would leave higher-paying jobs at larger companies to work with you again. Clients you work with recommend us to other clients. You influence everyone with your pragmatic, kind, and effective style. 
3. High cognitive flexibility. In most cases, you’ll need to absorb a lot of knowledge and new ways of working within a few days. And we won't have all our clients' context on internal priorities and politics. You’ll be surprised often, especially since clients are not always the most organized. 
4. Optimism as an Operating System. You have a relatively high happiness set point. You are rarely rattled and handle high-pressure situations with timely, composed, and candid reactions. Our job is “humans all the way down” - no client wants to bring in a pessimistic, cynical, or attacking consultant. 
5. Direct feedback and open communication. We give timely, kind, and immediate feedback to help each other grow and do excellent work for our clients. We expect that you give/accept it graciously, learn and adapt quickly. 

Compensation

1. Based on location tax of residence and level. The exact level is defined based on the skills and knowledge demonstrated within the hiring process, which includes unbiased blind review (more about our hiring process). People with prior work experience tend to get leveled as L3. To ensure fairness, the salaries are the same for everyone within the same Level and Location Tier. 
   
   1. Associate Product Management Consultant II (L3) 
      1. Location Cluster 1 (High cost of living countries: Germa