Product Manager

Das ist der Job

You know how to keep a squad moving, when to step in, when to step back.

Darum lohnt es sich

Modern AI tools are part of your daily craft—for discovery synthesis, prototyping, writing, coding. Set the pace, manage tradeoffs, keep the team focused on what matters. Requirements 2-3 years of product management experience, ideally at an early-stage B2B SaaS company that shipped at a high pace Strong prioritization is your superpower.

You can hold customer escalations, internal stakeholder asks, and long‑term bets in your head at the same time, and decide what gets done first. You communicate those decisions clearly to engineers, designers, customers, and leadership alike Comfortable leading engineering and design.

You can hold a productive conversation with both an engineer and a designer in the same hour Some technical understanding. You do not need to write production code, but you should be able to reason about systems, data models, and the tradeoffs that affect what is feasible Appetite to go deep.

Agricultural emissions methodologies are not light reading. You should be the kind of person who gets curious, not bored, when the conversation turns to calculators and data sources Builder mentality. You enjoy shipping. You would rather have something live and imperfect than perfect and unshipped AI-fluent.

You also have a point of view on how AI reshapes the products we build Bonus: a genuine interest in farmers, agriculture, or the food system. Not required, but it will make Monday mornings a lot more fun You don't feel like you fulfill all the criteria? We get it: confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But guess what?!

There is no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. The only thing you need to ensure along the recruiting process and beyond is that the problem that we are solving with Root is one you cannot wait to get out of bed for on Monday morning!

What the job involves Build on top of Europe's #1 primary data collection platform and bring it to new heights—new markets, new commodities, ready for action You will own our core product line end-to-end Today it is the leading platform in Europe for collecting farm‑level data at scale Tomorrow it needs to be the foundation that powers the next decade of agricultural decarbonization That means making the product ready for action, expanding into new commodities, and bringing it to new geographies across Europe Own the product line end-to-end.

From discovery to delivery to ongoing maintenance. You decide what gets built, when, and why Lead an engineering and design squad. Routines, rituals, prioritization— that is on you Prioritize across competing demands. Customer escalations, internal stakeholder asks, methodology updates, expansion bets.

You will rarely have enough capacity for all of it. Make the calls that move the needle, communicate them clearly Go deep on methodology. Calculators, data sources, agricultural emission factors. The product is only as good as the science underneath.

You will become one of the most knowledgeable people in Europe on how farm‑level emissions get calculated Drive expansion into new markets and commodities. Run discovery in new geographies, pressure‑test our offering with local customers, decide where we double down and where we pull back Make it action‑ready. Data collection is the foundation.

Reduction is where customer value compounds. Shape how our primary data product becomes the launchpad for everything we build on top of it Ship. We are still early stage. Time‑to‑customer‑value beats perfection.

Builder mentality is non‑negotiable You will report directly to our Head of Product Some of our angel investors that will actively mentor you: Jan Philipp Thomsen (VP Product @Celonis) – scaling enterprise B2B SaaS Vassili Samolis (Director Product @Doordash, ex‑Instagram, ex‑Pinterest) – product discovery at scale It is important to us to give you the best conditions for learning and career growth.

This is why we have designed our cap table in a way that all our early employees get functional experts as mentors by your side #J-18808-Ljbffr