Senior Product Manager - Legacy maintenance and migration (M/W/D)

Senior Product Manager – Legacy maintenance and migration (M/W/D)

You’ll be joining one of the world’s largest privately owned real estate tech companies and a subsidiary of Axel Springer. Our mission is to unlock everyone’s perfect place! You’ll work across some of Europe’s best-known digital real estate brands including: Meilleurs Agents, Groupe SeLoger, Immoweb, Immowelt, Housell, and Yad2.

You’re most productive when you have the freedom to work with true flexibility.

WHAT WE DO IN SEEKER:
The mission of the Seeker domain at Aviv is to make finding your home a joyful process. We accomplish that by building a multi-brand, multi-market platform across web and app that guides seekers effortlessly to their happy place. We are structured into Pillars to reflect the customer journey (Attract, Engage, Connect, Retain). Each pillar has 4-5 impact teams focused on solving a specific set of customer problems. This role reports into the Director of Product of the Connect Pillar.

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to take ownership of legacy products primarily in the German and Austrian markets. This role is critical in ensuring the smooth operation, optimization, and maintenance of existing solutions while preparing for their eventual migration to new, scalable platforms. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure continuity for our users and partners during this transformation.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO CAN:

• Ownership of legacy products:
  • Manage the day-to-day operations and performance of existing products.
  • Collaborate with customer support, technical teams, and business stakeholders to address bugs, usability issues, and technical debt.
• Stability and optimization:
  • Ensure availability and reliability of legacy products by working closely with engineering teams on incident resolution and improvements.
  • Optimize processes, workflows, and features to maintain efficiency and user satisfaction.
• Migration strategy and execution:
  • Assess legacy product functionality, user needs, and dependencies to plan for smooth migration to next-generation systems.
  • Provide recommendations for enhancements or replacements that align with business objectives and user needs.
  • Contribute to the definition of best practices for maintaining and transitioning legacy products.
  • Partner with the engineering teams to define a migration roadmap that minimizes disruptions.
• Cross-team collaboration:
  • Liaise with internal teams, including engineering, legal, and analytics, to ensure the alignment of legacy system updates and migration efforts with broader company goals.
  • Work with external vendors and partners involved in legacy systems to ensure ongoing compliance and performance.
• Monitor core KPIs for legacy products and report on performance.
• Leverage quantitative and qualitative insights to prioritize updates and guide migration plans.

AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS:

• Several years of total Product Management experience.
• Strong understanding of software lifecycle management, including technical debt, bug prioritization, and system migrations.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple systems and competing priorities.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and make informed decisions, understand business levers and be outcome-oriented.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and facilitating smooth collaboration.
• Entrepreneurial, fast, and highly motivated; you don’t need too much direction.
• English fluent (C2 or native), German a plus but not mandatory.

NEXT STEPS:

Unlock your perfect job with us today and make an application. The recruitment process includes:

• Phone call with recruiter (expectations and circumstances).
• Case Study.
• Meeting with the team.

BENEFITS:

• 30 days annual leave.
• Hybrid or remote working options.
• Company pension scheme.
• €50 public transport allowance.
• €100 allowance for glasses.
• A mix of Health and Wellbeing benefits.
• Bicycle leasing (Job Rad).
• Berlin only – Subsidised canteen.
• Berlin only – Kindergarten.

At AVIV, we are an equal opportunities employer and an organization where everyone is welcomed to be their authentic selves. We strongly encourage individuals with visible and non-visible disabilities, all educational backgrounds, people from minority backgrounds, those from the LGBTQIA+ community, and parents and carers to apply. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, or wish to discuss part-time or flexible working requirements, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example – she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).
Our ambition is to be the leading Employer in PropTech across Europe and this is a pivotal time to join us and unlock your perfect job!