Senior Product Manager, Open Science Platform

Frontiers Media, LLC; Madrid; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Frontiers is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own a defined product, platform, or workflow within its publishing ecosystem. You will define the roadmap, collaborate with engineering and design, and be accountable for outcomes, operating within the one-platform strategy to enable scalable, data-driven solutions.

The role requires 5+ years in product management, strong cross-team collaboration, and the ability to drive adoption and business impact across submissions, peer review, production,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Management
• Experience owning end-to-end roadmaps and delivering outcomes
• Ability to partner with engineering, design and operations to ship value

Responsibilities

• Roadmap ownership: Define and drive the roadmap for your product area, balancing user needs, business priorities, and platform constraints into a clear, sequenced plan.
• Requirements discipline: Gather, document, and reconcile requirements from multiple stakeholders into a coherent, scalable product definition.
• Cross-team delivery: Work with engineering, design, and other product teams to ship your roadmap and manage dependencies.
• User- and stakeholder-facing discovery: Engage with authors, editors, reviewers, partners or internal teams to uncover real needs and validate solutions.
• Creative, pragmatic solutioning: Propose scalable, simple configurations over bespoke branches to satisfy intent without fragmentation.
• Evidence-led decisions: Define and track metrics; adjust course based on data.
• Quality and risk ownership: Define acceptance criteria, test with real users, and own post-launch quality.
• Product vision: Set a clear vision aligned with Frontiers' one-platform strategy.
• Business outcome ownership: Build the business case, set investment and expected returns.
• Team leadership: Lead your squad towards shared goals, coaching and guiding without formal lines.
• AI and automation: Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and measure impact.
• Launch and adoption: Plan rollout, train users, then track usage and iterate.
• Resourceful problem-solving: Define what you need to move forward when data is missing.
• Clarity of thought: Bring structure and rationale to ambiguous problems.
• Experience: 5+ years in Product Management

Skills

Roadmap ownership

Requirements discipline

Cross-team delivery

Discovery

Data-driven decisions

Quality and risk ownership

Product vision

Business case

Team leadership

Managing up

AI and automation

Launch and adoption

Clarity of thought

Job description

Frontiers is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own a defined product, platform, or workflow within its publishing ecosystem. You will define the roadmap, collaborate with engineering and design, and be accountable for outcomes, operating within the one-platform strategy to enable scalable, data-driven solutions.

The role requires 5+ years in product management, strong cross-team collaboration, and the ability to drive adoption and business impact across submissions, peer review, production,