Product Manager (part-time)

Intro

BidX is looking for a Product Manager in part-time (~16 hours/week) to own the bridge between our commercial teams and our developers. You'll turn a stream of business needs - from account managers, clients, and leadership - into a prioritized, well-specified backlog the development team can execute against, and you'll own the system that decides what gets built next.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who is energized by building order out of ambiguity. You won't be slotting into a mature product machine - you'll be building the machinery: the intake funnel, the scoring model, and the cadence that make prioritization fast, consistent, and defensible.

Your area of responsibility will include the following

• Own prioritization end-to-end. Design and run a repeatable system to score, sequence, and communicate what gets built - replacing case-by-case decisions with a transparent, defensible process.
• Translate in both directions. Take business cases from account managers and clients and turn them into clear specs for developers; translate technical constraints back into terms the business understands.
• Spec features and close gaps. Write clear specifications for new features and improvements - from campaign-creation flows to reporting and automation.
• Coordinate migrations and dev dependencies. Keep multi-step technical initiatives moving, manage exceptions, and chase blockers before they stall.
• Own request intake and triage. Run backlog review, deduplicate tracking across boards, and evaluate a public roadmap/upvote tool so clients and Account Managers have a clear front door.
• Support strategic product bets. Contribute specs, feedback loops, and coordination for major initiatives - including our AI product layer.
• Keep product operations honest. Maintain status alignment across boards, clear release notes, and a trustworthy backlog.

What You Need To Bring

Must-have

• Structured thinking. You can take a messy stream of requests and impose order - categorize, score, sequence, and defend the sequence. This is the single most important trait.
• Strong communication across audiences. You write clear specs, run a clean backlog, and can hold a conversation with a developer and an account manager in the same afternoon without losing either. You're comfortable pushing back and saying "not now" with a reason.
• Ownership and follow-through. You chase blockers, keep things from going silent, and close loops.
• Comfortable operating under direction. You bring structure and a point of view while executing against priorities set by leadership. You want autonomy on how, not final say on what.
• Fluent AI usage. You work AI into your daily workflow - not as a novelty, but as leverage. You understand agents and MCPs (Model Context Protocol), can design and run AI workflows to automate research, spec-writing, triage, and reporting, and can reason about where AI fits (and where it doesn't) in a product process.

Strong bonus

• Amazon Advertising knowledge.

Nice to have

• Technical literacy - enough to talk credibly with engineers about APIs, data models, migrations, and feasibility. You don't need to code, but you shouldn't be intimidated by a technical conversation. Familiarity with SQL/MariaDB, data pipelines, and third‑party APIs is a plus.
• German - the dev team is Darmstadt-based and much internal communication is in German; Account Managers are international. Bilingual DE/EN is a practical advantage, not a must
• B2B SaaS product experience, ideally in ad-tech, e-commerce, or the Amazon ecosystem.
• n8n (or similar workflow automation) - hands‑on experience building automations in n8n, Make, Zapier, or comparable tools, especially wiring AI steps into multi‑step workflows.

The prioritization mandate

No formal prioritization system exists today — building one is the core deliverable. In your first weeks we'd expect you to stand up:

• A single intake funnel for requests from Account Managers, clients, leadership, and dev, so nothing lives only in a chat thread.
• A scoring model weighting business impact, reach, effort/feasibility, and strategic fit (a RICE- or weighted‑scoring‑style framework is a reasonable start).
• A review‑and‑communicate cadence tied into existing product and Customer Growth rhythms.
• Transparency back to the business so Account Managers and clients can see where a request stands.

Leadership keeps the final call on priorities; you own the machinery that makes those calls fast, consistent, and defensible.

Who Thrives Here

Someone unusually organized who writes well and is energized by building order rather than needing a mature product org to slot into - who has been the connective tissue between engineering and a commercial team before. This role is roughly 70% execution and ordermaking, not vision decks. If you love backlog craft, clear specs, and closing loops, you'll do well.

Why us?

• Hybrid work - we offer you the perfect blend of flexibility and in-person interaction.
• An ambitious and open-minded team that works together on innovative solutions and supports one another.
• Modern workplace equipment with Apple devices, so you can work efficiently and comfortably at all times.
• A varied workday - with us, exciting tasks are guaranteed, but boredom is not.
• Regular team events in a relaxed atmosphere to strengthen team spirit and celebrate successes.
• An international, diverse team that brings together different perspectives and learns from one another.

Contact

Your contact, Dalia from the People & Organization team, looks forward to getting to know you.

Diversity is our strength - a work environment free of prejudice!

We value the uniqueness of each individual and promote a respectful and appreciative work environment.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team!

About Us

BidX offers a software solution for automated and optimized advertising for merchants on Amazon. Through rule-based and self-learning algorithms, keyword management and bid adjustments can be automated. This allows sellers and vendors to use their advertising budgets more efficiently, increase their profits, and significantly reduce their workload. Relative advertising costs are reduced by an average of 32 percent in the first 8 weeks alone. Numerous international retailers and agencies from 42 countries already rely on the BidX software solution.