Senior Product Owner

• Own the matching funnel end to end - invite, accepted match, transferred match, interview, hire. Every step is measured today and every step leaks.
• Analyze business requirements and break them down into roadmaps, timelines, epics, tickets and tasks - and defend the cut list.
• Document, analyze and improve the whole user journey on both sides of the marketplace: candidates and employers have competing interests, and those trade-offs are yours to make rather than escalate.
• Create actionable concepts for new products and features, estimate effort and ROI, own the process from ideation to delivery.
• Decide where AI belongs and where it does not. Run experiments with the expected outcome written down first, then verify and iterate.
• Define KPIs, track them, improve them, revise them. Within 90 days we expect one metric you moved, with a baseline, a number, and a read you can defend to the leadership team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, developers and the data team, and use data-driven storytelling to align them., * Search and SEO, including the AI-answer variants (AIEO, AEO, GEO) - a growing share of our traffic.
• Matching or recommendation systems: you know why offline metrics and business metrics disagree.
• Healthcare hiring workflows and empathy for the field - shift work, qualification recognition, and why a nurse does not read email at 14:00.
• SQL. Not required, but the people who enjoy this role usually have it.

Must have

• 5+ years in Product Ownership/Management, shipping with cross-functional agile teams.
• Experience building or scaling marketplaces, job boards, or recruitment platforms - two-sided funnels behave differently and we would rather not teach that from scratch.
• Data-driven by default: you write your own analytics questions, read an experiment result, and say “this did not work” out loud. Analytics, A/B testing, experimentation.
• Strong ability to define product vision, roadmaps and priorities against business goals, customer needs and technical constraints - including clear epics, user stories and acceptance criteria for complicated workflows and funnels.
• Excellent written German and English. Our users, employers and support team are German-speaking; our codebase and documentation are English.

• Decision authority. Flat hierarchies with short decision paths are not a slogan here: you will not need a committee to ship, and you will not get to blame one either.
• Direct access to the data - our own data lake, dashboards and product analytics. You query it yourself instead of filing a ticket and waiting.
• Budget and room for experiments that are allowed to fail, provided the expected outcome was defined up front.
• Regular feedback conversations with empathic and experienced leadership.
• An open corporate culture with helpful, communicative colleagues and a genuinely cooperative working atmosphere.
• Central Berlin office in a beautiful old building, plus flexible remote