Hybrid Product Owner – Startup

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About the role

  • Product Owner responsible for the complete product development cycle in an AI-first SaaS startup. Focus on user-centered product development and collaboration with a founding team.

Responsibilities

  • Own the entire product development lifecycle — from discovery to delivery
  • Define, prioritize, scope, and deprecate features — you help make the decisions
  • Define new features: create PRDs, user stories, workflows, and UI/UX designs — always focusing on exceptional UX and accounting for all edge cases
  • Facilitate roadmap planning and prioritization — based on impact, not on who shouts the loudest
  • Lead product meetings, refinements, sprint kick-offs, and review meetings (we do not have a Scrum Master)
  • Conduct user research with real customers and use analytics to understand and improve user needs and processes
  • Perform high-level bug/root-cause analyses and reproduce critical issues
  • Perform manual QA and testing as the final quality gate
  • Experiment with AI tools to accelerate discovery, analysis, and delivery
  • Continuously improve our product workflows and team processes

Requirements

  • Experience as a Product Owner / Product Manager in a SaaS startup or scale-up (ideally B2B)
  • Proven track record of building/rebuilding products from scratch and successfully bringing them to market
  • Strong UI/UX skills: confident in creating wireframes, mockups, and design flows
  • Hands-on user research experience and an analytical mindset
  • Excellent prioritization skills and the ability to manage trade-offs in a fast-paced environment
  • Curious and AI-minded: willingness to try new tools, follow the AI ecosystem, and apply it to your work
  • Technical expertise: high-level understanding of APIs, system integrations, and SaaS architecture; ability to collaborate with engineers in technical discussions
  • Strong communicator who can work effectively with founders, engineers, and customers alike
  • Based in the Düsseldorf area (or willing to travel regularly) — hybrid working with flexibility
  • Fluent in German, both spoken and written

Benefits

  • Freedom to shape the product and take ownership
  • Opportunity to own product management in a growing startup and directly shape our product rebuild
  • Close collaboration with the founders and an ambitious development team
  • Startup culture: fast learning, high impact, no bureaucracy
  • Hybrid setup: preferably based in Düsseldorf, with flexible remote options
  • Competitive salary + equity options — grow with us as we develop Evolute together

Job title

Product Owner – Startup

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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