Senior Product Manager - New Business
Join a fast-growing, listed company with a purpose! Fastned owns and operates a growing network of more than 300 fast charging stations across Europe, allowing electric vehicle drivers to charge their car with 100% green energy in just 15 minutes. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards sustainable mobility by giving freedom to electric drivers. Our goal is a European network of 1000 fast charging stations in prime locations, where all electric vehicles can charge with renewable energy from the sun and wind. We have recently been awarded “Best Charging Network” in the UK, France and the Netherlands. If you want to make a difference and work in an informal, international scale-up environment with future prospects, then read on!
Your role
Fastned enables EV drivers around Europe to charge their vehicle with renewable energy and leads the way in making mobility sustainable. In this role, you will create impact by bringing new and most scalable propositions to market, loved by our customers yet work for the business.
With your focus on both B2C and B2B audiences, strong partnering with our Commercial and Location teams, a keen eye for data and great prioritization skill, your team’s success shows through increasing driver and charging volumes at our charging stations; and increasing success in closing location contracts and winning tenders. You will work cross-functional as a member of a scrum team, together with UX, Engineering and relevant stakeholders. As an entrepreneur, you are guided by an in-depth understanding of business goals and user needs, ruthless prioritization efforts, but also follow your heart, intuition, curiosity, play, guts, and taste.
Your overall responsibilities include
Develop and drive product strategy through an aligned prioritized roadmap and backlog
Monitor and measure product performance and feed insights back into the product development lifecycle. Be ferocious and resourceful in improving performance metrics
Understand the needs of your users, key stakeholders as well as the business, and guide for the prioritization, validation and delivery of various new proposition types through product solutions.
Work with your users, key stakeholders, UX and Engineering through discovery and delivery lifecycle, taking full accountability for delivered outputs and outcomes for your team.
Meticulously chase and track bugs to guarantee a seamless experience for your users
Clearly communicate roadmaps, initiatives and results with your team, users & key stakeholders
Contribute to improving the product development lifecycle & implementation of best practices
Who we are looking for
You are an entrepreneur with a builders mentality, who thrives in building and iterating products! You have a strong commercial sense and excel in taking ownership of the user journey, understanding user pains, business requirements, and translating those into best fitting solutions. You own your main product metrics, iterating the product where it makes sense. Additionally, you tick the following boxes:
You possess a master's degree and bring analytical thinking to the job
You bring product thinking, and experience in making commercial business succeed in a B2C, B2B and sales environment, preferably in a fast-scaling startup or larger organization.
You think and talk in terms of assumption validation and hypothesis testing, driving business outcomes through rapid experiments, quick iterations & data-backed problem solving.
You have strong experience in stakeholder collaboration, understanding their needs with the customer in mind, and transforming those into problems to solve & stories to refine with the team
You are a great coach and communicator, building bridges with relevant stakeholders to guide prioritization, and developing a culture of validation and value delivery.
You leverage data to drive strategic decisions. You have proven experience of analyzing and using data to make key product decisions. SQL proficiency is highly desirable, or you are willing to learn it (we provide in-house SQL training!)
You have the ability to prioritize requests in a high paced and Agile work environment
Join us in building a better future
We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We put a focus on work-life balance, provide you with genuine work flexibility, and have family-friendly policies in place. Our benefits include:
Stock option plan -> we believe in shared value creation;
A training and development budget of €3,000 per year per employee, because development and training are important to us and our sector offers endless opportunities;
Daily vegetarian lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations;
Full access to our electric vehicle fleet with all charging expenses covered;
Next to fun events year-round, we throw notorious Christmas parties and organize an amazing yearly trip abroad with all employees;
Other perks include flexible working hours, full travel compensation and the working gear of your choice
Interested in making an impact?
We would love to have a conversation with you! Apply now, send us your CV and explain in your motivation letter why you’re excited about joining Fastned. Here’s the next steps of the hiring process:
Screening call with our Recruiter
Meeting with a Product Manager and Director of Product & Engineering
Meeting with our Data & Insights Lead and an Engineering Manager
Case Presentation
Then, it’s time to welcome you on board to Fastned! If you have questions or need further information regarding your application, please contact our recruitment team via recruitment(at)fastned.nl
Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.