Senior Product Manager

Background

Beams mission is to enhance safety across industries, beginning with aviation safety. We use state of the art in-house and third party Machine Learning models and LLMs to identify and monitor risks and hazards facing the airline industry. Our platform analyses safety reports at scale, enabling faster decision making, deeper safety insights and proactive risk management.

Headquartered in Berlin and with an office in Barcelona, Beams operates within GDPR-compliant European data centres, offering peace of mind to its partners. Our international team champions a remote work culture with frequent in-person meet-ups. We value cross-functional collaboration, rapid feedback from short feedback loops and continuous improvement.

We are looking for our first product manager who is experienced in agile planning and lean principles, and will thrive in a fast-paced, early stage and innovative startup environment.

Responsibilities:

• Gain a deep understanding of user problems through activities such as user interviews and, in consultation with design and engineering, formulate and prioritise pragmatic solutions which delight our customers
• Develop and maintain the customer-facing product roadmap and internal engineering backlog, balancing the needs and desires of customers, internal business goals, technical feasibility and implementation cost
• Communicate the product roadmap and set expectations with customers
• Drive product decisions through short user centric feedback loops
• Validate that solutions delivered by our Engineering and Design team meet our internal quality standards
• Externally validate that solutions delivered meet user needs
• Conduct market research to understand industry trends and the competitive landscape, in order to define strategic and market positioning
• Work with Sales and Customer Success teams to develop product marketing strategies and assist in sales, deployment and customer support activities
• Stream product and customer insights back into the product development process
• Define and own product success metrics to measure impact and performance of released features
• Communicate product plans, status updates and key milestones to stakeholders across Beams
• Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement of the product process

Attributes:

• At least 6+ years experience in product management creating exceptional technical products, ideally in B2B SaaS
• Experience building products from 0 to 1
• Demonstrated experience working closely with designers and engineers in balanced teams
• Analytical, data-driven decision maker with strong product intuition
• Able to assess technical feasibility of proposed product features at a high level while simultaneously understanding the commercial impact to a customer
• A pragmatic attitude to getting things done
• Excellent facilitator of internal and customer meetings and user interviews—especially in remote work settings
• Excellent written and verbal communicator, able to convey complex technical ideas to non-technical audiences
• Understanding of capabilities and limitations of AI technology including Large Language Models and other transformer-based machine learning architectures
• Knowledge of risk management domain and practices (HFACS, risk matrices, bowties) and airline industry a bonus

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Equity in a rapidly growing company.
• Annual company offsite and modern offices in Berlin and Barcelona.
• High-end equipment to facilitate your best work.
• A flexible hybrid remote work policy.