Product Manager, Fides
Corporate governance & entity management
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Corporate governance & entity management
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
Fides is on a mission to enable good governance globally.
Role
Who you are
- One of two backgrounds:
- Product management: typically 3+ years of experience, ideally in B2B SaaS, legal tech, or another domain with complex workflows
- Legal practice: experience as a lawyer, ideally in corporate law, governance, or an in-house legal team, with a clear motivation to move into product. You may have less formal PM experience, but can demonstrate how you have improved processes, introduced technology, or helped deliver digital solutions
- Practical exposure to AI: you have used AI tools meaningfully in your work, experimented with LLMs, or contributed to an AI-related initiative. You are curious about their potential and thoughtful about their limitations
- A hands-on approach: you take initiative, test assumptions, and turn ambiguous problems into concrete next steps
- Strong analytical judgment: you can break down complex requirements, weigh competing priorities, and explain your decisions
- Clear communication and collaboration: you can connect customer, business, and technical perspectives and work effectively with engineering
- Customer focus and commercial awareness: you care about solving real problems and understand how product decisions contribute to business outcomes
- Experience with prototyping, workflow automation, or developing AI-powered features is a plus
- English: professional fluency required
- German: an advantage
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Product Manager to help shape and scale Fides across EMEA, Japan, and the US
- Fides helps legal and corporate teams manage company information, ownership structures, and governance workflows—from board meetings and resolutions to documents and signatures. We make complex legal work easier to navigate, with AI creating new opportunities to simplify everyday tasks
- Now part of LegalOn, a global legal technology company, Fides retains a dedicated product and engineering team. We combine the ownership and fast decision-making of a focused startup team with the reach and resources of an international organization
- You will work closely with the Head of Product, engineering, and colleagues across the business to understand customer problems, set priorities, and turn ideas into useful, well-designed features
- We welcome both experienced product managers and lawyers with relevant domain expertise who want to move into product management. What matters is your ability to understand complex problems, make sound decisions, and work with a team to deliver solutions
- Own product initiatives from discovery to launch: speak with customers, explore problems, define solutions, and follow through on delivery and adoption
- Turn complex workflows into intuitive experiences: translate legal and business needs into clear requirements, working closely with engineering to make thoughtful trade-offs
- Help shape our roadmap: contribute to product strategy and prioritization alongside the Head of Product, balancing customer value, business impact, and development effort
- Explore practical applications of AI: identify where AI can improve legal work, test ideas, and help evaluate the usefulness and reliability of solutions
- Collaborate across the business: work with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success on customer insights, positioning, launches, and product adoption
- Learn from results: use customer feedback and product data to assess whether improvements solve the intended problem and decide what comes next
- Improve how we work: help develop product practices that support a growing international business while keeping the team pragmatic and adaptable
Application process
- Our hiring process is designed to be collaborative and transparent, and typically includes:
- 20 min Intro Call with Hiring Manager
- Hiring Project including 30 min Call
- Gatekeeper Interview (in person)
- Reference Call
- Offer Call
Our take
Fides offers general counsels, and other legal and compliance staff, the tools to manage all their corporate governance tasks on one digital platform. Though only launched in 2021, the company has a number of well-known customers including luxury watch merchant Chrono24 and VC fund Headline.
While corporate governance demands are growing rapidly, especially from investors, the space is still heavily dependent on lawyers who, given the laborious nature of the work, are prone to human error. The founders behind Fides have identified quite a gap in the market, pointing out that though demand and workload is growing, laws don’t change very often and can be more effectively managed digitally.
Having raised significant VC funding, Fides is now set on growing its team and refining the AI element of its software in a bid to automate as many parts of the governance workflow as possible.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2022
$4.3m
SEED
Aug 2022
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $5.3m
Company benefits
- Remote-first but super cool and cozy HQ office in Munich (Luisenstraße 51!)
- Mobility Budget (Bike or MVV)
- Company bootcamps in remote work locations
- Regular professional and fun events online and IRL with the whole team
- State-of-the-art laptop
- Every employee, independent of their function, can get shares in the company
- Urban Sports Club membership grant
Company HQ
Maxvorstadt, Munich, Germany
Leadership
Lisa Gradow
(CEO)Previously co-founded and was CPO of Usercentrics. Is a Startup Angel Investor as well as an Executive Board Member and Vice President for the German Startups Association.
Philippa Peters
(COO & Chief Legal Officer)Specialises in Corporate and Insolvency Law, previously working for high-profile law firms Freshfields, Noerr, and Möhrle Happ Luther.
Vincent Bobinski
(CTO)Previously founded and was CTO and MD of housekeeping startup Call Jeffrey (acquired by Helpling, 2021).
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