Senior Product Manager - Parental Leave Cover (Fixed-Term, 12 Months)

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our team for a 12-month fixed-term role. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on Staffbase's expansion into operational territory, with senior leadership support and real revenue backing. If you thrive in a fast-paced, 0-to-1 environment and want to tackle a high-stakes problem, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Own Tasks: Shape it from an early build into a scalable solution for thousands of frontline locations, and drive the roadmap and prioritization.
• Partner with Experts: Collaborate with operational-retail domain experts and internal solution designers to solve complex real-world problems.
• Engage with Customers: Work directly with flagship enterprise customers to understand their operational realities and translate them into product features.
• Maintain Actions Surface: Ensure the health of the Actions surface, including forms, HR actions, and the existing widget/plugin estate.
• Define Success: Establish what success looks like for operational products, prioritizing frontline worker adoption over corporate reporting.
• AI-native Approach: Apply an AI-native lens to ensure intelligent layers genuinely unblock workers.
• Strategic Decisions: Help land strategic decisions, such as the integration depth of Tasks into the core product.

Requirements

• 5+ years in Product Management: Strong commercial/business orientation, focusing on customer value and outcomes.
• Generalist Skills: Ability to own products end-to-end across discovery, delivery, GTM, and stakeholder management.
• Thrive in Ambiguity: Comfortable in greenfield situations, preferring to shape new problems rather than optimize mature ones.
• B2B SaaS Background: Understanding of enterprise customers and scaling products at enterprise level.
• Fast and Pragmatic: Ability to work efficiently under deadlines without losing sight of the end user.
• Confident and Opinionated: Ability to hold your ground with senior engineering teams and leadership on priorities and strategy.
• AI-native Mindset: Approach to work and product thinking that is inherently AI-native.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Deskless/Frontline Products: Experience with task management, retail/hospitality operations, or field service.
• Hands-on Understanding: Familiarity with Microsoft 365 actions, ServiceNow, HRIS, or task-management products.
• Scaled Enterprise Rollout: Experience taking a product from early build to scaled enterprise rollout.
• Permissions/Hierarchy Models: Understanding of who creates, assigns, and executes tasks across an organization.

We Offer

• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary package.
• Flexibility: Flexible working time models and hybrid work options, supported by a yearly flex work allowance of €1560.
• Recharge: 31 vacation days annually, including one floating holiday, and fully paid Fridays off during August.
• Volunteers Day: One day off per year for supporting a social project.

About the Company

At Staffbase, we inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first AI-native Employee Experience Platform. Our industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels - intranet, employee app, and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.

Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 550+ employees supports 1,500+ customers-reaching over 14 million employees-in transforming their employee experience. We are proud to be a Unicorn company-privately valued at over $1 billion-demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.

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