Director of Product Management (m/f/d)

• Own product strategy
• Take full ownership of your team's outcomes: adjust strategy, roadmap, or process proactively when results aren't tracking, and spot diminishing returns before they bite.
• Define clearly what your team should focus on, why the investment matters, and what outcomes Usercentrics can expect
• Contribute meaningfully to pillar-level strategy and connect your team's work to the priorities of the management team
• Identify novel areas of investment that advance the product vision, and build the case for new strategic initiatives
• Drive product execution
• Set and uphold high standards for specification, delivery, and quality across your team, reviewing and shaping key product work
• Make the tough trade-off calls between projects and investment areas to maximize the value your pillar delivers
• Build and maintain best practices for specification, delivery, and quality, and hold your team accountable for outcomes
• Anticipate your team's resourcing, skills, and tooling needs based on the roadmap ahead, and act before gaps become blockers
• Stay close to the domain
• Align market insight across teams and pillars, grounding strategy in a deep understanding of customer needs, competitive dynamics, and market opportunity
• Partner closely with engineering leadership to align technical strategy and address cross-functional challenges
• Lead cross-team efforts to address industry trends and regulatory challenges, ensure compliance across product areas, and help position Usercentrics as an industry leader
• Turn insight into direction
• Make sure your team has the data, user feedback, and market insight it needs to make informed decisions, and use that data to set and communicate quarterly goals
• Coach your product managers to use data and customer insight to shape recommendations and roadmap direction, not just to report on results
• Strengthen the relationship between PMs and design, and push for design that keeps pace with how AI is changing product experiences, not just how it's changing engineering
• Lead and grow your people
• Identify strengths and development areas for each team member, and proactively close skills gaps across the team
• Manage your team's careers, not just their performance, and look for opportunities to help them grow into product leaders
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across the company, keeping key partners informed and avoiding last-minute surprises
• Influence prioritization and resourcing decisions at the pillar level, and ensure your team's progress has visibility and support at the VP level.

Must-haves

• Proven experience leading product management teams, including hiring, coaching, and developing product managers into stronger leaders
• A track record of owning product strategy and outcomes for a significant product area, including making and defending hard trade-off decisions
• Strong ability to use data, user feedback, and market insight to set direction and inform a roadmap
• Experience driving product-led growth (PLG) motions, using product usage and adoption signals to fuel acquisition, retention, or expansion
• Demonstrated success building and influencing relationships with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Design, Go-To-Market teams and company leadership
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate strategy and connect team-level work to company-wide priorities

Nice-to-haves

• Domain experience in AdTech, MarTech, or privacy/consent management (e.g. CMPs, tracking/consent infrastructure)
• Experience operating in a multi-product or multi-brand organization
• Familiarity with regulatory or compliance-driven product environments

We offer

• Hybrid (minimum of 2-3 days a week from the office) Benefits Why join Usercentrics?
• Joining Usercentrics means becoming part of a fast-growing, diverse and international team of tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurially-minded who build our success story together
• Company culture is important to us - we strive to continuously develop a positive, vibrant and inspiring environment that enables everyone to thrive both personally and professionally
• Get involved! We have plenty of initiatives and love to see people from all department enthusiastically participating and shaping our future together in different cross-department projects
• Your work-life balance is important to us too - we offer flexible working hours, hybrid working and the possibility of workcations (in accordance with our company policy)
• We always remember to have fun along the way, both in our day-to-day work and at our regular team events on site in our offices in Munich, Copenhagen, Odense, Lisbon, New York and Buenos Aires or online
• You are the most valuable asset to our company which is why we’re happy to offer awesome benefits like our personal development budget, job-related language courses and a lot more (depending on your location) to focus on your well being.

We are looking for a Director of Product Management to own the strategy, outcomes, and people of one of our product pillars. This is a fully accountable leadership role: you'll set the direction for your team, develop product talent, and make sure the work your team ships connects clearly to company-wide goals. You'll combine hands-on team leadership with pillar-level strategy, working closely with peers across Product, Engineering, and the broader business.As a Director, you're expected to actively drive AI-native ways of working within your team: using AI to speed up research synthesis, discovery, spec writing, and prototyping, and building the judgment in your PMs to use it well rather than uncritically. This is a real, current expectation on how you'll run your team from day one, not an aspirational nice-to-have.