Zenjob

product manager in staffing

In short

Senior Product Manager role at Zenjob, an AI-powered flexible staffing platform connecting companies with temporary workers and students with part-time jobs. The role owns product vision and delivery for marketplace dynamics (demand forecasting, job matching, shift engagement), working across Engineering, Design, Ops, and Commercial. Requires 6+ years of product experience with real-world coordination products (staffing, logistics, fintech, healthcare), marketplace/allocation experience, strong analytical skills, and fluent English plus German at C1+. Hybrid role based in Berlin with up to 2 remote days per week.

About Zenjob
Zenjob is an AI-powered flexible staffing platform that connects companies with temporary workers. Companies use the platform to book ready-to-work staff in real time, while students use the app to find part-time jobs that fit around their studies.
Responsibilities
•Define and execute a product vision that balances marketplace dynamics by optimizing demand forecasts, matching jobs with Zenjobbers, and engaging students in working more shifts
•Translate business goals and user problems into solutions that increase revenue
•Talk directly with Zenjobbers, clients, and internal teams to identify opportunities
•Analyze data independently and derive insights
•Turn ambiguous problems into defensible plans, defining what to solve, what not to solve, and in what order
•Design and run tests by forming hypotheses, defining falsification criteria, shipping the smallest viable test, and evaluating results honestly
•Drive product development from concept to launch, coordinating Engineering, Design, Ops, and Commercial through hypothesis, build, rollout, and post-launch decisions
•Own project outcomes, define success metrics upfront, and assess whether targets were met
•Communicate clearly through actionable executive memos, engineer-ready specifications, and explanations of trade-offs to Commercial
Requirements
•6+ Years in product, including meaningful experience with products where software coordinates real-world processes such as staffing, logistics, fintech operations, or healthcare, with substantial business impact
•Experience with marketplace dynamics and allocation problems
•End-to-end delivery experience with complex products, including the ability to explain what went wrong
•Strong analytical skills and ability to derive answers independently and communicate fluently with data scientists
•Experience influencing cross-functional teams without formal authority
•Clear written and spoken communication
•AI is already part of your work; you can explain where it helps and where it does not, and can ship small features with little to no help from Engineers
•Fluent English
•German proficiency at C1 level or higher, with strong spoken and written fluency
Conditions / Benefits
•28 days of paid vacation, increasing by 1 day for every 2 calendar years of service up to 30 days
•1 day of special leave for community service
•5 days of paid educational leave, and the possibility of unpaid leave
•Remote work up to 2 days per week; 1 day per week during the first 6 months for onboarding
•Dogs are welcome in the office
•Annual training budget of EUR 750, mentoring opportunities, and ongoing career development conversations
•EUR 30 Urban Sports Club grant and an office sports room
•EUR 40 monthly credit for NAVIT, a sustainable mobility tool for public transport, bike sharing, and more
•Quarterly team events, winter and summer parties, and budgets for employee birthdays and anniversaries

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