[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.
• You’ll prioritise, zoom in and out, and make a real impact.
• You bring clarity to chaos and orchestrate seamless execution.
• You’ll manage discovery and delivery for three streams at once, internally and externally.
• You're comfortable with both strategy and hands-on, unglamorous work, and you know when to go deep or stay broad.

• Work with strong personalities and diverse teams.
• You adapt to communication styles and integrate quickly.
• People enjoy working with you, even when you push back.
• You're approachable, constructive, and always professional, even when challenging unrealistic demands.

• Support Senior Product Management Consultants who serve as Interims.
• You’ll be supporting the client-facing PMs who drive complex cross-functional initiatives in B2C or B2B products.
• It can be anything from setting and reaching quarterly OKRs at a scale-up to Continuous Discovery/Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) or A/B tests elsewhere.

• Craft and communicate compelling product narratives.
• For every feature or capability, you can answer:
• What job/problem does this solve?
• For whom?
• How big is the market/problem?
• What does success look like?
• Why does solving this matter?
• You’ll 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

• You Fix the Mess (and kind of love it).
• Your emotional operating system is set to “can-do.”
• You’re Driven, Collaborative, and Charmingly Direct.
• You Context Switch like it’s a superpower.
• You think commercially.

Requirements

• Most clients don’t bring us in during the calm; they call when it’s “uh-oh” o’clock.
• You thrive in chaos and somehow make it fun.
• You stay calm during meltdowns, and you deliver difficult truths with a smile and a plan.
• You speak human, not jargon.
• You know how to create boundaries that support effective collaboration.

Benefits

• Based on the location, tax of residence and level.
• Tenure-Based Compensation Increase: A 5% increase after 12 months and a 10% increase after 24 months of tenure.
• Uncapped bonuses (quarterly).
• Profit participation (yearly).
• Wellness Budget, Home Office/Coworking perks, and a 3-year anniversary gift.
• Annual workations, 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 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.