Product Management Lead, Sharpist
Digital coaching provider
Job no longer available
Digital coaching provider
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
Drive the growth of organisations and their people through 1:1 digital coaching and personalized learning journeys.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: Several years of experience as a Product Manager in agile environments
- Ownership: You drive your domain independently, proactively challenging leaders around you in their assumptions with data-driven business cases; you are well-organized and do not need or want to be micro-managed
- MVP mindset: For the purpose of juggling with stakeholder needs, you must be a champion of the MVP concept, distilling the product down to what is desirable, viable and feasible
- Collaborative ideation: You should be an ideas person who enjoys healthy sparring, values being a strong thought partner and celebrates that great solutions are conceived through collaboration
- Discovery: Experience in gathering product feedback through surveys, concept testing, analytics tools, and A/B testing
- Reaching hearts: A track-record in building products that users love
- Empathy: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Language: A strong command of the English language is a requirement, German is a plus
- Passion for Learning & Development: Deep interest in or openness for the topics of for life-long learning, personal and professional development, general and experimental psychology, as well as coaching. Bonus: experience in these fields
- Based in Berlin: While you can choose a hybrid model between working from home and from our office, you should be based in Berlin
What the job involves
- Understand, care for, and balance the needs of this full range of Sharpists users
- Have a dedication to personal development and growth - both in the form of personal self-awareness, as well as an eagerness to assist others in cultivating an effective learning journey
- Have the ability to judge when incremental product improvements are needed and when it’s time for step-change big bets – with your own style but grounded in data-driven evidence and an evolved product sense
- We consider this a unique challenge to a curious product person. You will report to the CTO and also work very closely together with our Lead Designer and Agile Coach
- To tackle the challenge with confidence, you will work together with all departments and become a close advisor to our C-level
- Define product strategy: You will ensure that Sharpist's purpose (mission, values, vision) is adequately reflected in the Product 1-3 year strategy horizons and provide input to company planning sessions
- Lead discovery on cross-functional product initiatives: You will drive user research and become closely aligned with our customers, who are mostly HR leaders at large enterprises
- Be deep in the data: You will work closely with our Data Scientist and use evidence around user behaviour help create business cases and inform your product decisions
- Drive user experience: You will work very closely with our Design Lead to support her decision-making around the user experience across corporate clients, learners, coaches and internal users
- Breakdown and specification of Product features: You will provide feature epics and guide the breakdown to user stories
- Maintain healthy portfolio backlog for several platforms: Based on the product KPIs that you set and monitor, you will groom and prioritize our backlog and product roadmap
- Train teams on the Sharpist product: You make sure that the entire organisation, from commercial teams to operational teams, understands the current product and product vision
- Communicate product externally: You consult our Product marketers on how to explain, frame, and sell our product
- Manage stakeholders: You will assess and coordinate stakeholder needs and expectations in close exchange with our C-level, while acting as the voice of our users
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Sharpist are looking to capitalise on the $300-billion worth corporate learning and development market with a curated marketplace of 1:1 coaching experts available to employees. Enterprises who purchase the service from Sharpist are attracted by the startup’s attention to customer experience, with a learner engagement of more than 90%.
The digital coaching provider counts some of Germany’s biggest businesses as its clients (BASF, Allianz, Porsche). It is now looking to use new funding to expand its services to new markets, including the UK and Ireland.
While the organisation has had great success in its home markets, it will be interesting to see whether it can replicate its impressive growth amongst employers with noticeably different workplace cultures and L&D practices.
Insights
63% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2022
$23m
SERIES A
Feb 2020
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $29.1m
Company benefits
- Have your own certified coach
- Flexible working hours
- Free mate, beers & muesli
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Language classes
- Employee library
- Sustainable company discounts
- Visa & relocation support
Company HQ
Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Founders
Dominik Lahman
(Co-Founder)A Computer Scientist and Mathematician, Dominik founded and was director of bitkraut, a Berlin-based IT startup. They also worked as a Research project Leader at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems.
Fabian Niedballa
(CCO)Previously scaled operations in high-growth environments including as Head of Supply Operations at German startup, GetYourGuide. Also previously worked as a strategy consultant at L.E.K.
Hendrik Schriefer
(CEO)Built and led various teams in human resources, from headhunting to leading the HR department of their previous company, Motius. Also worked as a Global Venture Development Manager at Rocket Internet.
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