Associate Product Manager, Delivery (m/f/d)

About the Role

We are seeking an Associate Product Manager, Delivery to bridge the gap between product vision and engineering execution. Working under the guidance of our Product Lead, you will play a crucial role in translating product priorities into actionable tasks for our engineering and design teams. This position is ideal for someone who is organized, curious, and eager to develop their product management skills through practical experience and mentorship.

What You'll Do (Tasks)

• Draft feature scopes, requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with guidance from the Product Lead.
• Help maintain and organize the product backlog.
• Prepare features and tasks for refinement and sprint planning.
• Coordinate requirements and open questions between product, engineering, and design.
• Track sprint status, delivery progress, dependencies, and blockers.
• Keep the team and relevant stakeholders informed about progress and changes.
• Support planning, refinement, reviews, and other product-delivery meetings.
• Document product requirements, decisions, and changes.
• Gather the information needed for prioritization discussions.
• Contribute recommendations while the Product Lead retains final prioritization responsibility.
• Help improve the team’s product-development and delivery processes.
• Take on greater product ownership as your skills and experience develop.

What Success Looks Like (First Six Months)

• Upcoming features and tasks are documented clearly and prepared on time.
• Sprint progress, dependencies, and blockers are visible to the team.
• Product decisions and requirement changes are consistently documented.
• Engineering and design know where to find the information they need.
• Open questions are identified and brought to the right people early.
• The Product Lead has reliable support across planning, prioritization, and delivery.
• You begin handling smaller features with increasing independence.

Requirements

• Approximately 1–3 years of relevant experience in product management, project coordination, business analysis, software delivery, design, QA, or a related area. Relevant internships and working-student experience may count.
• Some experience working with software engineering, design, or other multidisciplinary teams.
• The ability to turn discussions and ideas into clear written requirements and action items.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Clear and thoughtful written and verbal communication.
• Confidence in following up on open questions, dependencies, and commitments.
• Curiosity about users, technology, and how digital products are built.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to ask questions and learn.
• Basic familiarity with agile product development and tools such as Jira, Linear, Notion, or Confluence.

Helpful, but not required

• Experience writing user stories or acceptance criteria.
• Familiarity with sprint planning, backlog refinement, or software-release processes.
• Enough technical curiosity to learn about APIs, data flows, system dependencies, and implementation trade-offs.
• Experience working in a startup, scale-up, or another quickly changing environment.

We welcome applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. If the role interests you but you do not meet every listed qualification, we still encourage you to apply. We care about your potential, judgment, communication skills, and willingness to learn.

Benefits

• Work with an excellent international team on varied tasks with extensive opportunities to learn and grow.
• An attractive and competitive salary.
• A monthly learning budget.
• Support for an Urban Sports Club membership.
• Support for your preferred means of transport—we help finance your new bike or public transport subscription.
• A startup office in one of Berlin’s cultural hubs, where you’ll never get bored.

We welcome applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. If the role interests you but you do not meet every listed qualification, we still encourage you to apply.