Product Owner Data - Hamburg (m/f/d)

At FREE NOW we are at an exciting point in our history - we are building a world-class product that is being used daily by more than a million people. We are a part of one of the most dynamic spaces for innovation in the world today: shaping mobility. Our daily business is solving large-scale, complex problems – and we love it! 

We are keen on hiring a Product Owner (m/f/d) for liaising with our stakeholders and shaping our data products. You will be guiding a dedicated workstream that is analysing our marketplace and designing and implementing the models that define how we effectively steer our marketplace and enable our business to make even smarter and more efficient pricing decisions. Being part of the Pricing workstream, you will work closely with data analysts, data scientists and machine learning engineers, while collaborating with business stakeholders and market specialists on a daily basis.  

You will stretch, learn, grow, and have fun doing it in a creative, diverse and collaborative environment that spans more than 70 nationalities and 11 markets across Europe. Don't join FREE NOW because of our perks or great office locations, join us if you can't wait to disrupt the mobility industry with us!

Your responsibilities:

• Proactively identify key opportunities to independently scope, prioritise and lead their validation and execution end-to-end
• Develop overall data product strategy for pricing, manage the roadmap and lead its execution to drive sustainable user engagement
• Provide leadership in defining MVPs or Experiments that allow us to test our hypotheses while delivering a delightful customer experience
• Work closely with data analysts, scientists and machine learning engineers. Mediate between technical and business matters, backing up your opinion with data and drive decisions forward when needed
• Identify, understand, structure and solve complex problems in the fast-moving world of urban mobility, specifically focusing on the pricing side of the marketplace.
• Communicate effectively with business end-users to identify pain points, use cases and problem definitions
• Present your work to both internal and external stakeholders as well as at meetups and conferences
• Align with other data workstream representatives and collaborate with them in order to act as efficient as possible and achieve even more

Your profile:

You are a problem solver, detail-oriented and self-motivated. You let data inform your thinking rather than relying on gut feeling. You thrive working with ambiguity and believe in lean experimentation. You are an effective communicator, a team player and avid learner.

• Agile: You’re an experienced advocate in agile project management
• Fluency with Data: Analytical mindset and ability to independently leverage data for prioritisation and decision making, plus experience working with data tools (e.g. Tableau, Mixpanel) 
• Stakeholder Management: Strong collaboration, and superb communication skills (both written and oral) and ability to synthesize information quickly
• Commercial Understanding: Proven record of taking complex business problems and coming up with innovative and effective product solutions. Understanding of marketplace dynamics will be a plus.
• Impact: You have a solid track record of driving concrete results at consumer-facing start-ups/large organizations and experience delivering web or mobile products of a significant scale and complexity, shipping on a regular basis across different platforms.
• You feel comfortable handling uncertainty and operate independently
• While we typically look for candidates with advanced University degree in Maths, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or other quantitative disciplines, we're happy for you to prove us wrong and show that these degrees aren't necessary 
• You can communicate in English. We are a very diverse team with people from all over the world and English is our language of communication.
• You are passionate about harnessing data science and have the will to play an essential role in the future of urban transportation.

There are certain skills that we love in our candidates but they aren’t really deal-breakers for us. 

• Prior experience with pricing in multi-sided marketplaces
• You possess a sound understanding of statistical analysis and data-driven modelling
• A/B Testing: Strong knowledge of Experimentation at scale
• Enthusiasm for geo-spatial data is a big plus!
• Prior experience working with notebooks and DataBricks stack is a big plus

Diversity and inclusion:

At FREE NOW, we commit to being an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We celebrate diversity and have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and do their best work. Together with passionate, creative and collaborative colleagues, we are following our purpose of making mobility available for everyone.

Move like you

At FREE NOW we have colleagues from over 70 nations! We value open communication and welcome everyone as they are. We are all one team and follow the same goals – that’s why we share our insights and results to get on track together every month. 

Your wellness and work-life balance matters to us. We offer trust-based and flexible working hours as well as the option to work from home. In the office, you can enjoy our free drinks and daily fresh fruit. Do you like to be active? Take part in our subsidised gym membership. Bigger plans? Take a sabbatical leave and get out there!

Let’s grow together! We believe in a transparent career growth plan, quarterly development sessions with your team lead as well as regular 1:1s to help you thrive! For your own ideas, you’re welcome to set up initiatives and projects.

Need a lift? We offer Udemy e-learning platform, subsidised language classes, internal peer-to-peer trainings and more to support your learning & development opportunities.

More Benefits? ? Monthly mobility budget for FREE NOW rides, quarterly team events, company-wide onboarding days at our HQ in Hamburg, relocation assistance for internationals, birthday-off, kudos and many more!

About FREE NOW:

FREE NOW is Europe’s leading multi-mobility platform backed by BMW Group and Daimler AG. Next to ride hailing, FREE NOW also offers micro-mobility services such as e-scooters, e-bikes, e-vespas as well as car sharing. It consists of the services FREE NOW (10 European markets) and Βeat (5 Latin American and 1 European market). Summed up, those services currently attract 50 million users in 16 markets and more than 150 cities. FREE NOW is therefore the biggest multi-service mobility provider in Europe and the fastest-growing ride-hailer in Latin America. FREE NOW works with various third party providers to offer their customers an even wider range of options to get from A to B. In total, around 1,900 employees in around 35 offices work for the services of FREE NOW, which is led by CEO Marc Berg.