Product Owner/Manager
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Job description
As our Product Manager/Owner, you will sit at the intersection of AI platform development and sustainable packaging innovation. You will own the product lifecycle end-to-end, from discovery and validation to delivery and adoption, ensuring our AI-driven platform delivers measurable business and sustainability impact for customers in the packaging value chain (material suppliers, converters, brands etc.) You will report directly to our Co-founder and will work closely with Engineering, Data, Design, and Go-to-Market teams, translating real customer problems into scalable, high-impact product solutions. This role requires end-to-end (design and execution) management and ownership of Product cycle. Further details below. We are open to remote candidates within Europe (+/- 2hrs CET), with a preference for Spanish or German based candidates who can be directly employed. Any other locations would be managed through Employer of Record services. How you'll help build one*fıve
- Product Discovery & Strategy
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Customer & Problem Discovery: Lead continuous discovery with external stakeholders (brand owners, R&D, manufacturing, sustainability teams) to deeply understand workflows, constraints, and decision-making processes.
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AI Value Identification:Identify and prioritise opportunities where data, AI, and software can deliver the highest ROI, balancing customer impact, feasibility, and scalability.
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Hypothesis-Driven Validation: Partner with Engineering to test assumptions through prototypes, experiments, and MVPs before committing significant development effort.
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Outcome Ownership: Define and track product success metrics, focusing on: o User adoption and engagement o Product-level data quality and reliability signals o Quantifiable ROI and environmental impact improvements for customers
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Strategic Alignment: Contribute to product vision and roadmap discussions, ensuring alignment with company strategy and customer value.
- Product Execution & Delivery
- Roadmap & Backlog Ownership: Develop the product roadmap and translate it into a clear, prioritised backlog in collaboration with Engineering and Data leads.
- Decision-Making & Trade-offs: Manage scope, timelines, and trade-offs, clearly communicating risks, dependencies, and options to stakeholders and leadership.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Serve as the primary product contact for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to ensure consistent expectations around releases and capabilities.
- Enablement & Adoption: Partner with Customer Success/Sales to ensure customers have access to regular updates, customized training and support to adopt the platform.
- Technical Feasibility & Engineering Alignment
- Collaborate with Engineering, R&D, and Data Leads during discovery and backlog refinement to assess the feasibility of proposed AI features, ensuring key assumptions and constraints are surfaced early.
- Align product backlog priorities with technical debt and platform needs in partnership with Engineering Leads, making trade-offs between new functionality and system maintenance.
- Support coordinated releases by aligning backlog readiness, documentation, and stakeholder communication across teams.
Requirements
- Experience: 3-6+ years in a Product Owner or Product Manager role, preferably in B2B SaaS or R&D-oriented platforms. Early stage start up experience is a must.
- Discovery-Led Mindset: Proven experience leading user research, problem framing, and solution validation with external stakeholders.
- Technical & AI Literacy: Comfortable discussing software terminology, data based product ideas, and AI concepts (e.g., model, data and agent-specific technical concepts) without needing to code.
- Sustainability Motivation: Strong interest in circular economy, materials science, or sustainability-driven innovation
- Collaboration & Communication: Able to align diverse stakeholders and translate complex technical topics into clear product decisions.
- Language: Professional fluency in English; additional languages are a plus.
- Tools: Experience with Agile and discovery tools (Jira, Confluence, Figma, Miro, or equivalents).