Senior Product Manager - Limited contract (all genders)

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager (all genders) to join our team in Berlin!

This is a fixed-term position from October 2024 until December 2025 (maternity leave replacement).

Babbel is the world’s first and most sold online language learning platform, driven by the purpose to create mutual understanding through language. This means building an ecosystem of language learning offerings that helps people connect across cultures. Babbel, Babbel Live and Babbel for Business provide users with the most effective solution to be able to communicate with real people, in real situations. Babbel’s team consists of 750 Babbelonians representing over 65 different nationalities working in Berlin and New York.

For more information, visit www.babbel.com or download the apps in the App Store or Play Store.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the Engagement department in the heart of buzzing Berlin!

Specifically, we are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the Engagement team working on the motivational mechanics and progress tracking system to help our users form a language learning habit.

You will:

• Focus on the outcome: translating company OKRs into more specific team KPIs, and analyzing feature-level metrics to derive targets for next areas of improvement.
• Work closely with the other members of the product trio (Product Designer and Engineering Manager) to prioritize opportunities, define experiments to de-risk the four big product risks: value, usability, feasibility, business viability, build hypotheses, prototype and scope solutions to implement.
• Build strong partnership and collaboration with key product functions beyond the product trio (Product Analytics, Engineering, User Research, Learning Content) to discover, test and release each feature.
• Engage the team in the discovery process, bringing the focus on the business outcomes and empathy for Babbel learners.
• Together with the Engineering Manager, maintain a product backlog to facilitate a constant stream of valuable work for the team; continuously improve the team’s ways of working (agile ceremonies, best practices, team agreement).
• Collaborate with other teams and functions to maintain a holistic view of the product experience.
• Communicate decisions and releases to the rest of the company.

You are:

• A lifelong learner, someone who can unlearn and learn quickly, and wants to create an impact for our learners
• Comfortable with giving and receiving feedback for continuous improvement
• Motivated to achieve business goals and make an impact
• Data informed, and business-oriented
• Eager to innovate, prototype and learn continuously through rapid testing
• A compelling storyteller who can communicate in succinct and inspiring ways to a variety of audience types
• Comfortable navigating uncertainties and adapting to the changes expected in a fast-paced tech company

You have:

• 5+ years experience in working as a Product Manager in a cross-functional team.
• Pragmatic approach and bias to action
• Experience with continuous discovery
• A track record of delivering business value
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Experience in habit-building products
• Experience in ed-tech
• Experience in personalisation or recommendation systems