Lead Product Manager

We're partnering with an established, private-equity-backed German B2B software business to recruit a Lead Product Manager focusing on FP&A propositions. This is a particularly interesting opportunity for someone who sits at the intersection of FP&A expertise, product leadership and emerging AI capability.

The business is entering a significant period of product transformation and wants to substantially strengthen its FP&A/xP&A proposition across planning, forecasting, consolidation, reporting and controlling. Importantly, you won't be inheriting a finished roadmap but will instead have the autonomy to help define what the future product should look like: understanding how customer needs are changing, where the market is heading, what should be built internally versus bought or partnered for, and how GenAI and agentic AI can genuinely improve FP&A workflows for their customer base.

We're looking for someone who can move comfortably between shaping the long-term proposition, speaking directly with customers and sitting with developers to clarify exactly what needs to be built.

The key selling point with this role is the level of ownership. You would be joining at the point where the business knows the strategic importance of FP&A but is still defining exactly what the future proposition should become. You'll have access to an established customer base, significant internal finance expertise and senior leadership support, all whilst being given real autonomy to create the product direction.

What you’ll be doing

• Define the future product vision and roadmap across FP&A/xP&A
• Lead customer and market discovery
• Translate complex FP&A processes into clear, buildable product requirements
• Work closely with Engineering and technical leads from strategy through to delivery
• Decide where AI and agents add meaningful value
• Shape build vs buy vs partner decisions across the product area
• Develop MVPs and validate new propositions with customers

What we’re looking for

You will ideally bring:

• Deep knowledge of FP&A, planning, forecasting, consolidation and/or controlling
• Senior product management experience, with genuine ownership of product vision, roadmap and prioritisation
• Experience creating a new product, proposition or significant capability rather than only managing an established roadmap
• Strong customer discovery and requirements-management experience
• The ability to translate complex finance processes into technology and product decisions
• A practical understanding of GenAI / KI and agentic AI, with the judgement to distinguish real customer value from hype
• Experience within B2B SaaS, enterprise software, EPM/CPM or another relevant technology environment
• Language: Business-fluent German is essential given the customer base and level of direct customer interaction.
• Location: This is a hybrid role with in-office presence requested a minimum of 2 times per month.

If you have a strong FP&A background and enjoy the challenge of building products where the answer isn't already known, I'd be very interested in speaking.