(Senior) Product Manager - all genders

<h3>About Us</h3><p>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.</p><p>At prosperity solutions, we're tackling this problem – the so-called pension gap – through digital experiences.</p><p>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.</p><h3>Foreword</h3><p>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:</p><p>"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?</p><p>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.</p><h3>The Role</h3><p>We’re looking for a <strong>(Senior) Product Manager</strong> to own the <em>core</em> 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.</p><p>Your mission: ongoing improvement of the core user flows &amp; 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 <em>so</em> 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 <em>just work</em>™️, this could be the role for you.</p><p>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.</p><p>You will mainly contribute in three distinct stages:</p><ol> <li> <strong>Framing</strong> – 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.</li> <li> <strong>Shaping</strong> – 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 &amp; 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.</li> <li> <strong>Building</strong> – 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</li> </ol><p>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.</p><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p>"Quick apply" is a great feature, but we appreciate people reading our job postings in full. Add the words "steady builder" in the summary field of the application form and we know