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Senior Product Operations Manager

  1. Germany
  2. Engineering

Germany (Remote)

Job description

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We are looking for an outstanding Senior Product Operations Manager to join our team and help drive the evolution within our product suite.

This role is for you if you like to sweat the details, drive data-informed decisions within product development, and love creating new processes to drive more efficiency and better outcomes, not just for the product team but ultimately for the benefit of the broader business.

Your ability to look at our tools, and processes and work with product leadership to communicate with other stakeholders and keep our teams aligned with the SmartRecuiters mission will be critical to success. 

This is an opportunity to focus on strategy and process improvement. The ideal candidate is able to identify opportunities early, cut through complexity, and pragmatically develop thoughtful solutions.  

If you enjoy tackling both strategy and day-to-day execution and are ready to roll up your sleeves on day one, come work with us. You will be joining a team that is eager to improve daily and excited by the opportunities this person will uncover to support a progressive product environment.  

You’ll join a supportive, diverse group of talented Product Managers, Designers and Engineers in Europe and the US. We are looking for someone who will love recruiting technology innovation as much as we do!


Company Description

SmartRecruiters is a values-driven, global-minded, and well-funded tech employer on a mission to connect people to jobs at scale. As a global leader in enterprise recruitment software, SmartRecruiters offers a cloud-based global Hiring Success platform that allows teams to attract, select, and hire the best talent. 4,000 companies worldwide rely on SmartRecruiters to achieve hiring success—including brands like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa—using recruitment marketing, CRM, AI, ATS, and a marketplace of 600+ connected vendors all within one scalable platform.

SmartRecruiters was recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Employers in 2020. We are proud to offer a collaborative, diverse, and remote-friendly work environment, as well as competitive salaries and generous equity. We believe in promotion from within, so high performance can lead to upward mobility. Needless to say, we make sure you’re taken care of. Our inclusive office environment welcomes and respects all.


Qualifications

Responsibilities:

  • Using cross functional data to correlate trends
  • Interfacing with all aspects of the business to ensure data availability
  • Managing our vendor relationships
  • Automating data correlation, analysis, and reporting at every opportunity
  • Work as a right hand and extension to the VP of product
  • Manage Product team initiatives and strategic business objectives
  • Coordinate and drive effective execution of key projects and initiatives
  • Lead scoping and follow up of strategic initiatives across the product team
  • Oversee entire team's progress in achieving KPIs and OKRs
  • Lead the improvement and process enhancement, including how we engage with our users and customers
  • Contribute to vision and strategy of the Product team
  • Improving how our product tools work (Productboard, UserVoice, Pendo, etc.) and the processes around these to support improved outcomes
  • Coordinating with PMM and enabling successful release management 
  • Engaging with stakeholders across the business in relation to evangelizing product processes and engagement models 
  • Managing a team of technical writers and product analysts

Additional Information

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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