Senior Product Manager – EMEA
Job Description:
- Independently lead discovery and clarification with requestors, stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and other relevant parties to define business needs and product direction
- Apply design sprint methodologies and product lifecycle management practices to explore, validate, and shape initiatives
- Use prototyping and visualization tools to support product discovery, concept validation, and requirement definition
- Manage and prioritize backlogs and lead requirements engineering across complex or multi-product initiatives
- Lead product discussions and coordinate major cross-team developments involving multiple stakeholders or delivery groups
- Work with Development, Technical Lead, UX, QA, and adjacent teams to resolve ambiguity, dependencies, and delivery blockers
- Collaborate with Technical Leads on technical design and UX designers on formal UI/UX mockups
- Maintain clear and auditable product documentation, decision records, and communication changes
- Support rollout planning, training readiness, adoption tracking, and post-release feedback
- Act as a senior point of contact for product-related questions, bugs, escalations, and stakeholder concerns
- Prepare and communicate status updates covering progress, risks, blockers, decisions, and escalation needs
- Participate in leadership meetings when product representation, escalation, prioritization, or clarification is required
- Drive resolution of major issues, cross-team conflicts, and ambiguous topics
- Contribute to continuous improvement of product management ways of working and operational processes
- Support, guide, and mentor less experienced team members
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in product development, product management, or localization
- Proven experience managing complex products, multiple products, or high-dependency product initiatives with high independence
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, software delivery, requirements engineering, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder communication
- Strong design sprint knowledge and practical experience with prototyping and visualization tools for discovery and validation
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and navigate shifting priorities with a structured, delivery-oriented approach
- Proven track record of cross-team coordination, conflict resolution, and communication across senior stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and technical teams
- Experience working with Jira, Asana, Outline, Confluence, or similar tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical and product concepts to non-experts
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Product Management, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Linguistics/Localization Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Benefits: