Senior Product Manager – Open Science Platform

Frontiers Media SA; Madrid; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extra wellbeing days

Paid volunteering days

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning & development support

Healthcare and pension provision

Job summary

Frontiers seeks a Senior Product Manager to own a defined product area within our publishing ecosystem. You will define the roadmap, work with engineering and design to ship it, and be accountable for outcomes across submission, peer review, production, partnerships, AI, or related domains.

You will apply Frontiers' one-platform strategy, emphasizing shared workflows over bespoke solutions, and drive data-informed decisions, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Management.
• Experience owning multi-stakeholder, operations-heavy, or platform-level products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the roadmap for your product area, balancing user needs and business priorities.
• Gather, document, and reconcile requirements from multiple stakeholders into a coherent product definition.
• Collaborate with engineering, design and other product teams to ship the roadmap and manage dependencies.
• Engage with authors, editors, reviewers, partners, and internal teams to uncover real needs and validate solutions.
• Propose pragmatic solutions prioritizing configuration over customization and shared workflows.
• Use data to define metrics, track progress, and adjust course as needed.
• Own quality and risk, set acceptance criteria, and ensure post-launch success.
• Set a clear product vision aligned with Frontiers' one-platform strategy.
• Build the business case for the product, including investment and expected return.
• Lead squads of engineers, designers and analysts toward shared goals.
• Provide updates to Head of Product and leadership with progress, risks and trade-offs.
• Explore AI and automation opportunities to reduce manual work and improve outcomes.
• Plan rollout and adoption, train users, and iterate until outcomes move.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability, even without formal reporting lines.
• Domain exposure in academic publishing, SaaS platforms, or AI products is a plus.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Team leadership

User-centric design

Cross-team collaboration

Critical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Ownership

Job description

Frontiers seeks a Senior Product Manager to own a defined product area within our publishing ecosystem. You will define the roadmap, work with engineering and design to ship it, and be accountable for outcomes across submission, peer review, production, partnerships, AI, or related domains.

You will apply Frontiers' one-platform strategy, emphasizing shared workflows over bespoke solutions, and drive data-informed decisions, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.