Senior Product Manager

Job Description

Your mission

As a Senior Product Manager at deepset, you will join our early product team and have a big impact on building out our SaaS product ​deepset Cloud. Our typical users are Machine Learning Engineers in an enterprise and their "job to be done" is to make text information in the organization easily accessible for a variety of use cases.

Our mission

We are an open source startup that empowers developers to build flexible and powerful semantic search systems to query all types of data using our Haystack framework.

deepset is at the forefront of ​natural ​language ​processing (NLP) and we are on our way to becoming a standard for ​semantic search. Come join our team and ​work with tech experts on real-world cases, in a fast-paced and high-impact environment, and shape the NLP space together with us.

Life at deepset

At deepset you will find an environment ​with equal opportunities to grow, share ideas, build relationships, and succeed. We believe every employee is important and generates a direct impact on our team’s success.

We are certified by Flexa® Careers as a flexible employer, and our remote first culture is designed to provide work-life balance, autonomy, and flexibility.

Our daily meetings, the quarterly in person "Re.Base", and the social events allow us to work with great synergy. We would like to invite you to visit our life page to learn more about our culture.

Your impact

Our Product team is driven by the desire to ship an excellent software that makes people’s lives better:

• You’ll build strong empathy with our customers/the developers using our products, and have an understanding of the problems they want to solve
• You’ll work closely with internal & external stakeholders to define what we want to work on next and why
• You’ll be an ambassador for our product vision in daily discussions - Understand the big picture of our product, the market, the customers, the problems, and connect the dots in discussions
• You’ll own the full PM lifecycle from exploring early ideas, investigating new product features, moderating team discussions, breaking down complex topics into clearly scoped chunks, iterating closely with the engineering team, and collecting user feedback once it’s shipped
• You’ll shape the next generation of MLOps platforms and help developers and companies all around the world to access information via language

Your profile

• You are an experienced PM/PO - ideally building an enterprise SaaS product
• You can relate to Python Developers, Data Scientists, and Engineers, and you have an understanding of their workflows, needs and pain points
• You have demonstrated experience covering the whole product lifecycle, from an early idea to a shipped feature
• You are an excellent communicator and a good listener, who can steer complex group discussions towards a pragmatic outcome, and communicate the product vision to different target audiences
• You are passionate about user experience, and assertive in choosing the steps towards a long term vision
• Previous experience with ML/NLP will be considered a plus

Perks

• Remote-first: You can choose to work from home or any other workspace that suits you. We offer a home office budget for equipment and furniture, and we would be happy to sponsor a co-working spot.
• Grow: Personal and professional growth is important to us. We have a budget to learn and develop new skills, the chance to speak at conferences, and our team-favorite is the monthly “Hacky Friday”.
• Connect: We have a virtual office, a monthly social budget to reconnect virtually or in person, regular walk and talks with colleagues from other teams, and a flexible travel policy that enables you to meet colleagues in-person when needed.
• Re:base: Once every few months we meet in person. We believe it's great to still see each other occasionally in real life. We have good discussions, we do workshops, we brainstorm, we have lunches together, and we have fun. We cover travel expenses for sure.
• You are an owner: We offer every employee the opportunity to be enrolled in the employee stock option plan and own a part of the company.
• Personal time off: If you want to recharge and travel the world - there are 27 days of paid holidays.
• Choose your tech: Linux, Windows, or macOS? Laptop or PC? The choice is yours and we will provide what you need.
• Health and/or pension fund fitting with your main working location: E.g. Company pension scheme for Germany, Health insurance for the US

What colleagues say

• "At deepset, I have regained the joy of being part of a fascinating project with an inspiring vision. The team is a highly talented, enthusiastic, and caring group of human beings. I look forward to helping our experts solve the exciting challenges of providing practical NLP on a large scale.” (Ivan, DevOps Engineer)
  
  
• "Joining deepset has been rewarding from day one: I could work right away on challenging, interesting topics at the cutting edge of NLP with a really talented and welcoming team of engineers.” (Sara, NLP Engineer)