Product Manager New Ventures

As a part of our successful Brand & Portfolio team, you deal with the planning, management, and control of significant parts of the overall product portfolio – from product development to commercialization. You own the developing portfolio and growth strategy, always with the approach to create outstanding customer experience! Join our team in Munich, now.

*** This role is required in Munich, Germany ***

Your responsibilities

• You develop proof of concepts, MVPs, business cases and growth strategies by exploring areas of opportunities, identifying key growth levers, and building hypothesis around scent-based technology - in collaboration with know-how from consumer insights and market representatives.
• You are responsible for product discovery sprints to create clarity for new product developments. You steer your team's effort based on critical hypotheses and make use of build-measure-learn cycles. Release planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing customer and product requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with product design, engineering, sales & marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.
• You collaborate with consumer research and other research functions and enable early-stage testing to steadily create confidence and central marketing channels and regional sales to maximize the cultural relevance of our brand and product portfolio.
• You are responsible for specific parts of air up’s future product portfolio – from product discovery to product development and its customer impact.
• You guarantee that the product vision supports the company’s overall strategy and goals.
• You ensure that we work on the right problem and that new products are "viable, desirable, sustainable & feasible" by collaborating with all relevant stakeholders and asking the right questions.
• You work as the Product Owner and Product Manager with a cross-functional team of experts, and facilitate key SCRUM rituals (incl. ongoing backlog refinement, dailies, retros, sprint planning)
• You lead the project team by defining priorities, deliverables, and milestones, as well as serve as a facilitator and conflict manager.
• You connect closely with other PMs and the Head of Brand & Portfolio to ensure overall alignment and value maximization across the whole portfolio.

That's you

• You are familiar with the dynamics of product development, lean start-up methodologies and product discovery sprints and have ambition to change and break industry paradigms.
• You bring entrepreneurial know-how, especially in assessing brand fit, as well as financial know-how, especially P&L understanding and business case modelling.
• You are an experienced product or program manager for a physical D2C product portfolio in an innovative environment, managed in a fast-paced, agile setup.
• You have outstanding communication skills in English (oral, written, empathic, winning others over, across hierarchies).
• You have strong lateral leadership skills (emotional intelligence, situational leadership competencies, stakeholder management).
• You bring entrepreneurial skills or experience.
• You are curious, a fast learner, collect relevant input and are a strategic thinker who easily connects the dots. Best cast, you like uncertainty and know how to navigate in it.
• You have an agile mindset, agile product development know-how and a deep understanding and experience with agile methodologies.
• You have experience with the definition of minimum marketable features and minimum viable products.

air up® have developed an innovative and world-first drinking system. Through scent alone, the air up® bottle brings flavour to simple tap water and can be enjoyed without any single-use plastic bottles, sugar, or additives. air up is a young, fast-growing company filled with ambitious and creative minds from various backgrounds.

But what’s in for you?

🏖 30 days of vacation 💻 remote-first approach 🏷 discount on our products 💰 employer-funded pension 👟 discount on Urban Sports Club 📈 personal development 🎉 regular team events 🏁 start-up spirit 🌍 workation

air up® is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an equal opportunity environment for all persons free of discriminatory behaviour. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.­