Senior Product Manager, Zenjob
1-3 days a week in office
Automated staffing platform for temporary jobs
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Automated staffing platform for temporary jobs
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a world where people have full control over their work lives.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years in product, with meaningful time on products where the software coordinates real-world processes - staffing, logistics, fintech ops, healthcare, or similar, with substantial business impact. You have experience in marketplace dynamics and allocation problems
- You've shipped something complex end-to-end and can talk credibly about what broke, not just what launched
- You're analytically strong - comfortable getting to an answer yourself rather than commissioning one, and having a fluent conversation with data scientists
- You've moved teams you don't manage. Cross-functional influence without formal authority is most of this job
- You write and speak clearly. This is the strongest single signal we look for, because in a cross-team role, clear communication is most of how work actually moves
- AI is already part of how you work, and you can say specifically where it helps and where it doesn't, and you are already able to ship small features with little to no help from Engineers
- English fluency. German is a big plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Product Manager to join our team. In this role, you will play a key part in defining and executing a product vision that ensures Zenjob’s marketplace dynamics are well balanced, by optimizing our demand forecast, making sure jobs and Zenjobbers are matched optimally, and engaging students in working a high number of shifts
- This is not a role that owns one squad's backlog
- You'll work project-based: form a team around a problem, own it end-to-end until it delivers on the expected need
- You'll get problem statements, not requirements documents. Recent examples: how shifts get allocated across thousands of Zenjobbers each week, and how we get a new Zenjobber from signup to their first shift without human intervention
- This role suits a Product Manager who is energised by an open-ended problem, and who finds complex workflows genuinely interesting. You'll report to the Director of Product and work across our Supply, Demand and Staffing squads, depending on the problem to solve
- Bring our business goals to reality. Understand our financial goals, our users' problems and transform them into solutions that drive our revenue up
- Talk to users directly. Zenjobbers, clients, and our own internal teams. Most of the good opportunities come out of these conversations, not out of a backlog
- Do your own data work. You don’t wait until a data analyst gives you the insights, you dive into it and derive them yourself
- Turn ambiguity into a defensible plan. Take a problem nobody agrees on yet, and define what we're solving, what we're explicitly not solving, and in what order
- Design and run tests. Form a hypothesis, define what would falsify it, ship the smallest thing that gives you a real answer, and be honest about the result
- Drive product development from concept to launch. Pull together Engineering, Design, Ops and Commercial around a problem and keep them moving through hypothesis, building, rollout and post-launch decision making
- Own the outcome, not the output. Each project has a number attached. You define what success looks like up front, and you're the one who says whether it was hit
- Communicate clearly. A one-page memo an exec can act on. A spec an engineer doesn't have to interpret. A tradeoff explained to Commercial in terms they care about
Our take
Digital-first, flexible work gained traction with the rise of ride-sharing apps, but finding automated, on-demand talent for industries like grocery stores, events, and bars was still a major challenge - until Zenjobs came along. The company has revolutionised the space by making it easier for businesses to access the temporary staff they need.
Now, Zenjob is competing with other VC-backed startups like Tempo and Flexy, all vying to become the go-to flexible work marketplace across Europe. Despite the growing competition though, Zenjob has built a solid reputation with both companies and employees, positioning itself as a potential leader in this fast-evolving sector.
To stay ahead, Zenjob has invested its funding in expanding across Europe, with a focus on the UK. With fierce competition, Zenjob has managed to hold its ground and continue attracting investor interest, ensuring it can keep up with the market's rapid growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2022
$50m
SERIES D
May 2020
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $106.8m
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Fritz Trott
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked in Business Development for Germany's famous Rocket Internet GVD team. From there, worked in senior positions in SEO and CRM for Foodpanda and later as CMO for Treatwell.com a leading site for hair and beauty.
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