Senior Product Manager - Live (all genders)

Babbel is driven by a purpose: Creating mutual understanding through language. This means building an ecosystem of language learning offerings that helps people connect across cultures. Babbel, Babbel Live and Babbel for Business provide users with the most effective solution to be able to communicate with real people, in real situations. The key is a blend of humanity and technology. More than 60,000 lessons across 14 languages are hand-crafted by 150+ linguists, with user behaviours continuously analysed to shape and tweak the learner experience. And it works: Studies with Yale University, City University of New York and Michigan State University prove its effectiveness.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Product Management team in Berlin.

As a Product Manager at Babbel, you will create and deliver an amazing learning experience for our learners, guided by a user-centered design based on clear KPIs and data. You will facilitate collaboration within cross-functional teams in an agile environment,  ensuring that we’re building experiences that solve important learner problems in creative, scalable and measurable ways.

You will be:

• Leading a cross-functional agile team working on our high-growth Live product, driving engagement and product-led growth to achieve our strategic ambitions. 
• Prioritizing opportunities & managing the end-to-end product development process within your cross-functional product team, informed by strategy and OKRs.
• Setting strategic direction by sharing learner and data inspired insights, to inform product strategy & vision.
• Developing strong partnership and collaboration with your key product functions (Design, Engineering, Research, Didactics) and relevant parts of the business. 
• Building data-inspired hypotheses, and after measuring, monitoring and analyzing metrics to optimize existing features and to learn from minimum viable features. 
• Together with your Engineering partner, continuously improving your team’s engagement & ways of working, drive decision-making & increase velocity.

You are:

• Passionate about improving language learning, and knows when to apply attention to detail, when to make raw prototypes quickly, and when to consult experts
• An advocate for delight and emotion in your products
• Motivated to achieve business goals
• Data driven, business-oriented, and eager to innovate and learn continuously through rapid testing

You have:

• 5+ years experience working as a product manager, or similar role, in high performing, cross functional teams that have shipped products at scale
• You can influence and partner effectively across all levels of an organization, and regularly use these skills to improve the work going on around you.
• You are experienced with working with agile cross-functional development teams to build world-class software applications - experience with continuous discovery and delivery techniques is a strong plus.
• You are a compelling storyteller who can communicate in succinct and inspiring ways to a variety of audience types
• You have experience delivering marketplace software solutions - and have deep empathy for both the buyer and seller experiences
• Delivered initiatives against engagement KPIs 
• Experience with product-led growth is a plus

Some perks of becoming a Babbelonian:

• 30 vacation days and flexible working hours 
• BVG card or Swapfiets bike 
• Jobbatical and Sabbatical options
• Many internal & external learning opportunities to choose from
• A yearly Learning & Development budget
• Visa and relocation assistance 
• Full access to Babbel & Babbel Live classes 
• Modern office in the heart of buzzing Berlin equipped with a family, music, faith and nap rooms 
• Various internal communities to be part of including the Femgineers, DEI Ambassadors, Accessibility & Disability Group and more

Diversity at Babbel

As part of our ongoing journey towards building a diverse, equitable and inclusive company, we welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in tech. We are a learning company, inside and out, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not fit all the technical requirements - all candidates are assessed based on skills, qualifications and on our business needs. Please state your pronouns in your application, and let us know if you’d like to be addressed by a name other than the one appearing on your official documents. If you have a disability or special need, feel welcome to inform us, so that we can provide you with the proper assistance in the application process.

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