[Hiring] Associate Product Management Consultant @Product People

Role Description

When people think of streaming, they think of Netflix. For music, it’s Spotify. When they think about Product Management, they should think of us.

You’ll jump into high-impact client projects, helping post-product market fit digital-first companies tackle strategic and executional challenges. Our clients include category leaders and companies navigating growth, innovation, or transformation.

• Solve problems for clients and for Product People.
• Prioritise, zoom in and out, and make a real impact.
• Bring clarity to chaos and orchestrate seamless execution.
• Manage discovery and delivery for three streams at once, internally and externally.
• Comfortable with both strategy and hands-on work.

Work with strong personalities and diverse teams.

• Adapt to communication styles and integrate quickly.
• People enjoy working with you, even when you push back.
• Approachable, constructive, and always professional.

Support Senior Product Management Consultants who serve as Interims.

• Support client-facing PMs who drive complex cross-functional initiatives in B2C or B2B products.
• Assist in setting and reaching quarterly OKRs at a scale-up.
• Engage in Continuous Discovery/Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) or A/B tests.

Craft and communicate compelling product narratives.

• Answer key questions about features or capabilities:
• What job/problem does this solve?
• For whom?
• How big is the market/problem?
• What does success look like?
• Why does solving this matter?
• Share and help shape strategic context with clients’ CPOs, VPs, Directors, or Heads of Product.

Rinse and repeat.

• Go on a new mission with a new client or in a new team, new domain, new product, or initiative every 3-6 months.
• Continue sharpening your edge and actively helping Product People's internal initiatives.

Qualifications

• Ability to thrive in chaotic environments.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience in product management or related fields.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams.
• Commercially minded with a focus on business growth.

Requirements

• Experience in managing complex projects.
• Proven ability to craft compelling product narratives.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adapt to various communication styles.
• Experience with B2C or B2B products.

Benefits

• Transparent salary structure based on location and level.
• Tenure-based compensation increases.
• Uncapped bonuses (quarterly).
• Profit participation (yearly).
• Wellness Budget, Home Office/Coworking perks, and a 3-year anniversary gift.
• Learning and networking budgets.
• Generous leave policies including unlimited unpaid time off and a paid sabbatical every 3 years.
• 4-day workweek.

Company Description

Product People is the premier destination for Product Management services in Europe. We cover parental leaves, discover/deliver great products, and accelerate transformation by acting as bar-raising pacesetters. Our in-house recruitment process has a 0.3% acceptance rate.

We empower our Product community of 60,000 members to share knowledge generously whilst managing the unglamorous hands-on work of a Product/Program Manager or Product Ops, on an interim/fractional basis (3-12 months). Selected clients include Amazon, eBay, Miro, FreeNow by Lyft, DeepL, and the World Health Organization.