(Senior) Product Manager

Posted Sep 8

(Senior) Product Manager Residential Real Estate (m/f/d)

Description

Your role

In EU households, heating and hot water alone account for 79% of total energy use. By making heating smart we make a difference for the planet and people’s lives: Our products empower our customers to significantly reduce energy consumption while improving their comfort.

As (Senior) Product Manager Residential Real Estate you will create and continuously improve connected devices for the housing industry (“Wohnungswirtschaft”) which save energy and costs in large residential buildings.

Your responsibilities

Your main responsibility is making sure we’re building “the right thing” (market positioning and requirements). You will closely collaborate with an Engineering Manager focused on “building the thing right” (delivery) and a Technical Product Owner focused on technical specification. In close collaboration with your team, you will be responsible for:

  • Customer value: Engaging with customers ( landlords), users (tenants), and various stakeholders in the Proptech space to fully understand their needs and challenge our own assumptions
  • Business value: Making sure all products we’re building are backed by a strong business case and will help us grow a profitable company
  • Prioritization: Deciding what to build next (from small features to larger opportunities) based on structured, data-driven analyses
  • Project management and negotiation: Coordinating the overarching project management to ensure we are meeting customer contractual obligations and milestones as well as negotiating changes to contracts and milestones
  • Stakeholder management: Structure communication with internal (e.g. Management, Sales, Supply Chain) and external stakeholders (e.g. large customers, technology and business partners) to facilitate transparency and decision making
  • Product strategy and vision: Forming a clear product vision, strategy, and priorities and aligning them within your team and the company
  • Measuring success: Defining and tracking success metrics to relentlessly measure if your team is creating value for our customers and business

Requirements

Must Haves

  • Minimum of seven years of relevant work experience in project and/ or product management
  • Experience in product management of electronic hardware products
  • Experienced in difficult negotiations with very senior stakeholders and able to represent tado’s best interests in such settings
  • Very good with numbers and familiar with analyzing data (market/ financial/ customer/…)
  • Able to model quantitative business cases in excel to drive big and small decisions
  • Strong entrepreneurial mindset and business acumen
  • Experienced in agile methods for planning, testing, and collaboration
  • Able to explain and discuss complex topics in excellent English and German
  • Based in Germany and willing to travel to Munich for 1-2 day every few weeks

Big Plus

  • Work experience in PropTech or housing industry, including being familiar with the relevant trends and regulations in this industry
  • You are familiar with the IoT industry's main challenges and trends

Benefits

  • Be part of a fast-growing and cutting-edge company that makes a positive impact in the world
  • Grow your career in an agile, innovative, and open-minded working atmosphere with highly skilled and motivated colleagues from diverse cultural backgrounds
  • Competitive compensation package
  • Flexible remote work policy. Work remotely within Germany from wherever you have a fast Internet connection or meet with colleagues in our Munich office. We care about your contribution, not your location.
  • Personal development budget for training, courses, coaching, conferences, books, etc.
  • 30 days of paid vacation and a company pension scheme to support your retirement
  • Health care services including skin cancer screening, flu vaccinations, mental health support, and more. We have e.g. been amongst the first companies to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to all employees
  • Discounted access to gyms and fitness offers through “Wellpass”
  • Weekly free lunch at the office, a bright & modern space 10 mins from Munich Central Station
  • Company-wide events and various sporting events organized throughout the year

About tado°

tado° is the European market leader in developing and selling smart products and services to control your climate at home, having sold >3mio Smart Thermostats to date. We are internationally recognised for our unmatched compatibility, our award-winning elegant design and for being truly open with major smart home platforms. Over 200 employees contribute every day to the success of our company and we want to find new colleagues who are just as passionate about our products as we are!