Principal Product Manager at Mind Detect

Cutting-edge API-driven investment infrastructure platform client is searching for a Principal Product Manager to join their world-class product team in Berlin (hybrid) or Germany (hybrid options). The platform covers self-service, accounts, digital custody, trading, and technology infrastructure for Banks & EMIs, Brokers & Wealth Managers Software platforms and more.

As Principal Product Manager (Enterprise), your core mission is to establish the product direction and strategic direction for the Enterprise product which is powered by the joint capabilities between the business and its banking partner. This is a high-impact, newly created role that sits across product strategy, product management and cross-organisational collaboration and drives opportunities from concept to launch and adoption.

This is a unique opportunity to shape our enterprise strategy, delivering a direct and measurable impact on the business’ future growth.

Responsibilities

• Shape and drive forward the business’ Enterprise product offering by identifying, evaluating and prioritising customer needs through a deep understanding of the market, organisational context, existing capabilities and the new capabilities that are needed.
• Take a critical view of current product opportunities, group opportunities and propose a clear roadmap
• Act as the primary product interface between the business and the banking partner for Enterprise opportunities, managing stakeholders at all levels including senior leadership.
• Lead by example, demonstrating strong product craft across the product development lifecycle by providing clear product direction, clarifying scope, making key priority calls, distilling alignment and creating clarity on new product and partner launches.
• Work cross-function and cross-domain across engineering, operations, compliance, risk and business development to scope solutions and ensure execution.
• Support org-wide craft standards and build scalable frameworks for how Enterprise product work is structured, documented and measured.
• Manage and develop your direct report, fostering their growth and ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Anticipate market and regulatory shifts that affect Enterprise opportunities and proactively adapt the strategy.
• Drive decision-making with data, continuously forming hypotheses, running experiments and measuring impact.
• Represent the product function externally with partners, vendors and enterprise clients where appropriate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related field, or equivalent experience from a top-tier university
• 7+ years of product management experience, with a strong track record building and scaling complex, mission-critical platforms in financial services.
• Hands-on experience working in a highly regulated environment and understand what “regulated” means day-to-day (risk, compliance, controls, auditability).
• You are able to navigate complex stakeholder landscapes across multiple companies, create leadership-level buy-in, and drive alignment with a strong writing culture (clear docs, decisions, narratives).
• You’re effective at bridging a fast-moving scale-up and a long-standing industry leader, working across organisational boundaries, diverse stakeholders, and different working cultures (your path into PM can have taken some twists and turns).
• You shape product strategy across domains, find cross-domain opportunities, connect delivery to company strategy, and thrive on ownership, defining ambiguous problem spaces, creating structure where there is none, mentoring and developing others, working data-driven with measurable impact, and embracing change/experimentation (incl. leveraging AI) end-to-end.
• You thrive on ownership and building from scratch. Defining a new problem space, creating structure where there is none and seeing it through to tangible results is what gets you going.
• You are based in Germany, have the right to work in Germany, and are professionally fluent in English and German.

Benefits

• Generous compensation package
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work set-up: you can work from anywhere in Germany within a hybrid model, usually up to 4 days a month in the Berlin office
• Strong personal development/career framework
• Generous perks and benefits inc a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts
• Workation: you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time, and up to 60 days per year in total.

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This position is open to people already eligible for work in Germany

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