[Hiring] Product Manager @Poland and Middle-Eastern Europe

Role Description

You will be:

• Leading product discovery, prototyping, and customer validation for an AI initiative.
• Working closely with a dedicated team of two software engineers to guide rapid prototyping and iterative product development.
• Understanding customer workflows, identifying key problems, and defining product hypotheses to validate.
• Engaging with 2–5 existing customers acting as design partners during the initial development cycle.
• Planning and facilitating customer interviews, prototype testing sessions, and feedback discussions.
• Translating customer insights and business needs into clear product requirements, acceptance criteria, and a prioritized scope.
• Collaborating with engineers and the client’s technical experts to assess feasibility, dependencies, and integration constraints.
• Coordinating validation of the working solution using real customer projects and data.
• Evaluating customer feedback, product usability, business value, and willingness to pay.
• Participating in weekly planning sessions with the client’s product counterparts and presenting progress during regular product demos.
• Ensuring product decisions and prototype scope support future integration with the client’s existing products.
• Presenting validation findings and recommendations to stakeholders to inform go/no-go decisions.
• Supporting further development and integration if the initiative passes the initial validation phase.

This is a freelance project expected to last approximately five weeks.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Manager, including work on new digital products or product capabilities.
• Practical experience leading rapid prototyping, MVP, or proof-of-concept initiatives with software engineering teams.
• Strong product discovery skills, including customer interviews, problem identification, hypothesis validation, and feedback analysis.
• Experience working directly with customers to validate early product concepts and assess their business value.
• Ability to translate customer needs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and prioritized development scope.
• Experience testing prototypes or early product versions with real users and using feedback to inform product decisions.
• Ability to assess customer value and commercial potential, including willingness to pay.
• Ability to work closely with software engineers and technical stakeholders without being responsible for hands-on implementation.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to work independently, make pragmatic product decisions, and manage uncertainty in short development cycles.
• Practical experience using AI-powered assistants (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot Chat, or similar) to improve productivity, quality, or decision-making in analysis and software delivery.
• Work from the European Union region and a work permit are required.

Requirements

• German language skills (nice to have).
• Experience working on AI-powered products or AI-enabled functionality (nice to have).
• Familiarity with AI capabilities such as speech-to-text, document extraction, or processing unstructured information (nice to have).
• Experience with early-stage product development and 0-to-1 initiatives (nice to have).
• Knowledge of construction industry workflows, construction management software, or tendering processes (nice to have).
• Experience introducing new capabilities into existing software platforms (nice to have).
• Experience applying GenAI in a more structured way within the SDLC, including defined workflows, prompt patterns, or tool integrations embedded into daily analytical and documentation work (nice to have).
• Interest in and familiarity with emerging AI-driven practices (e.g. automation of analysis tasks, AI-supported documentation, or workflow optimization), with a willingness to explore and experiment beyond standard approaches (nice to have).

Recruitment Process

• CV review
• HR call
• Interview
• Client Interview
• Decision