Product Manager

StepStone Group; Düsseldorf; Vor Ort; EUR 65.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading recruitment solutions company located in Düsseldorf is seeking an experienced Product Manager to drive product vision and enhance user experiences. You will work closely with various teams to prototype AI-powered solutions, ensuring the delivery of innovative products. Ideal candidates hold a relevant degree and possess business fluent German along with strong analytical skills. This full-time role offers a hybrid working model and a range of attractive benefits.

Leistungen

29 days holiday allowance

Private medical and dental healthcare

Matching pension contribution

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance Cover

Cycle to work scheme

Volunteering days

Bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays

Qualifikationen

• Demonstrated understanding of modern product discovery and delivery techniques.
• Proven experience of product incubation for high traffic products.
• 2 years working on technology-powered products as a Product Manager.
• Business fluent German language is essential.

Aufgaben

• Drive the vision of your products with a focus on transforming user experiences.
• Own the prioritization of your backlog and create product roadmaps.
• Influence stakeholders using data and insights.
• Proactively communicate updates about development and initiatives.

Kenntnisse

Time Management

Data Analytics

Analytical

Agile

Requirement Gathering

Strategic thinking

Communication

Problem Solving

Market Research

Cross Functional Teams

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative or technical field

Tools

Figma

Lovable

Jobbeschreibung

As a Product Manager at The Stepstone Group youll collaborate closely with other Product Managers Product Directors Designers Researchers Data Scientists and Analysts and in partnership with our Software Engineering teams deliver products that contribute significantly to our company mission : make successful hires happen.

You will be part of a team that has a user first approach and consequently work effectively within a Product organisation that has a high degree of user obsession with a discovery led approach for building better products. Youll be expected to actively prototype and experiment with AI-powered solutions to validate hypotheses and accelerate product development.

This is so important to us. By joining our team you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities

• Product vision : Drive the vision of your products and understand how it is embedded in the overall product and corporate strategy with particular focus on identifying opportunities that can transform user experiences and create competitive advantages.
• Ownership : Own the prioritisation of your backlog the discovery of strategic opportunities enabling and empowering your team by creating product roadmaps and deliver consistently with a can do attitude within a context of high alignment and high autonomy. Rapidly prototype AI-enabled features using available tools and platforms to test concepts before full development.
• Stakeholder management : This job is an individual contributor role. You will need to be able to influence your teammates as well as colleagues stakeholders customers and key executives through your use of data and thought process.
• Communication : proactively drive your communication flow updates etc about the status of the development and initiatives to partners and main stakeholders offering transparency; enthusiastically communicate on your achievements and the product able to finetune the content of your comms to audiences with various degrees of technical skill or of seniority.

Qualifications

• A Bachelors or Masters degree in a quantitative or technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery.
• Proven experience of product incubation incrementally building and scaling up high traffic products.
• 2 years working on technology-powered products as a Product Manager.
• Demonstrated ability to learn multiple functional areas of business e.g marketing engineering design finance sales etc.
• Business fluent German language is essential.

AI‑Specific Requirements

• User‑centric AI : hands‑on experience with prototyping user experiences using platforms like Figma Lovable or similar. Comfortable with prompt engineering and AI workflow design.
• AI assisted coding : experience with prototyping backend data products via assisted code writing using agents or integrations like Claude Code Cursor Copilot etc. For example you vibe‑coded your own AI agents.
• AI foundational knowledge : Good understanding of machine learning concepts model training AI / ML cloud infrastructure and experience working with data science teams on AI product R&D.

Additional Information

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when youre with us. Because your job shouldnt take over your life it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer :

• 29 days holiday allowance bank holidays
• Private medical and dental healthcare
• Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)
• 24 / 7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance Cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Hybrid working model (3 days working from the office)
• Volunteering days
• and you can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays!

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company so we want to recruit develop and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone regardless of background gender identity sexual orientation disability status ethnicity belief age family or parental status and any other characteristic.

As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally including :

• Armed Forces Covenant : Bronze Award Employer Recognition Scheme
• EcoVadis : Bronze Award
• Fertility Friendly Employer accredited by Fertility Matters at Work
• RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards : Inclusive Technology Award 2024
• Stonewall : Gold Award
• Stonewall : Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Time Management, Data Analytics, Analytical, Agile, Requirement Gathering, Strategic thinking, Visio, Communication, Problem Solving, Market Research, UML, Cross Functional Teams

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1