Product Manager

Please only apply if you are business fluent German language. At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for job seekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match, in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring. Join our team of 4,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and become the world's leading job-tech platform.

As a Product Manager at The Stepstone Group, you'll cooperate closely with other Product Managers, Product Directors, Designers, Researchers, Data Scientists and Analysts, and in partnership with our Software Engineering Teams, deliver products that contribute significantly to our company mission: make successful hires happen. You will be part of a team that has a 'user first' approach and increasing work effectively within a product organization that has a high degree of user obsession, with a discovery led approach for building better products. You'll be expected to initiate prototype and experiment with AI-powered solutions to validate hypotheses and accelerate product development. This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everyone. Your responsibilities: Product vision: Drive the vision of your products and understand how it is embedded in the overall product and corporate strategy, with particular focus on identifying opportunities that can transform user experiences and create competitive advantages. Ownership: Own the prioritisation of your backlog, the discovery of strategic opportunities, enabling and empowering your team by creating productmaps and consistently with a 'can do' attitude within a context of high alignment and high automation. Rapidly prototype AI-enabled features using available tools and platforms to test concepts before full development. Stakeholder management: This job is an individual contributor role. You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, customers, and key executives, through your use of data and thought process. Communication: proactively drive your communication flow, updates, etc about the status of the development and initiatives to partners and main stakeholders, offering transparency; enthusiastically communicate on your achievements and the product vision. Be able to finetune the content of your comms to audiences with various degrees of technical skill, or of seniority.

A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative or technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery. Proven experience of product incubation, incrementally building and scaling up high traffic products. 2+ years working on technology-powered products as a Product Manager. Demonstrated ability to learn multiple functional areas of business e.g marketing, engineering, design, finance, sales, etc. Business fluent German language is essential AI-Specific Requirements: We are looking for Product Managers that are therefore Product Builders: you have hands-on experience building user experience- or data- product prototypes using AI-enabled tools. You are proficient in at least one of the following areas: User-centric AI: hands-on experience with prototyping user experiences using platforms like Figma, Lovable or similar. Comfortable with prompt engineering and AI workflow design. AI assisted coding: experience with prototyping backend data products via assisted code writing, using agents or integrations like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc. For example, you vibe-coded your own AI agents. AI foundational knowledge: Good understanding of machine learning concepts, model training, AI/ML cloud infrastructure, and experience working with data science teams on AI product R&D.

We're a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you're with us. Because your job shouldn't take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays Private medical and dental healthcare Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%) 24/7 Employee Assistance Programs Life Assurance Cover Cycle to work scheme Hybrid working model (3 days working from the office) Volunteering days and you can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays! Our commitment: Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, supply, age, family parental status, and any other characteristic. As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognized for our work - both locally and internationally renowned, including: Armed Forces Covenant: Bronze Award, Employer Recognition Scheme EcoVadis: Bronze Award Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024 Stonewall: Gold Award Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)