YOUR JOB
Are you a product leader driven by growth, adoption, and customer retention through AI-first product innovation? Are you excited by defining and driving core capabilities that solve complex problems at the intersection of compliance, security, and intelligent automation? Are you up for the challenge of strategically steering the evolution of one of Europe's leading AI-powered compliance and security platforms? Then this role is for you!
WE PROTECT THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE DATA
We are a fast-growing security and compliance tech company with a clear purpose: we protect the people behind the data. With over 250 team members worldwide and offices in Munich, Berlin, London, Stockholm, and Vienna, we help more than 4,000 global customers get certified fast and build a strong and scalable risk posture. With AI-powered automation, self-serve capabilities, and additional tailored expert advice, we offer our customers a seamless security and compliance experience to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving security landscape and challenges like the surge in cyberattacks.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
Strategic Problem Definition: Transforming customer challenges into coherent narratives and actionable initiatives to inform a roadmap that advances our AI-first platform strategy.
AI-First Product Innovation: You will use security & compliance insights, customer behaviours and market opportunities to identify new opportunities for intelligent automation.
Multi-Area Product Leadership: Work with the team to define a living 12-month roadmap across multiple product areas within our security and compliance platform, proactively communicating strategic direction and achievements across the organisation.
Customer-Centric Discovery: You will conduct monthly customer calls across target segments, which, combined with your research, uncover deep customer needs align with the company vision.
Cross-Functional Execution: You will influence and embed stakeholder engagement into team rituals to ensure 80% of critical projects are delivered to expectation, on time and within budget.
Market Intelligence & Competitive Strategy: You will regularly evaluate market health, competition, and win/loss data to shape product strategy, translating regulatory shifts into product opportunities and positioning our platform for sustainable competitive advantage.
AI-Augmented Product Practice: You will leverage AI tools for your own productive needs and share lessons learned with the broader team spanning our areas of work, including but not limited to scoping, research, QA, demo scripting, prototyping, and ideation.
Data-Driven Product Health: You will lead periodic analysis of metrics, activation signals, and adoption data, owning outcomes while experimenting with new feedback capture methods to continuously improve product performance.
WHAT YOU'LL GET IN RETURN
Access to the latest tooling and capacity to work with an ambitious international team with diverse skill sets.
Enjoy the freedom and trust to bring in and execute your ideas with a quick pace, autonomy, and the ability to make impactful decisions across multiple product areas.
Gain strategic insights into management topics, contributing and working closely with leadership and peers on platform-wide initiatives that impact our customers and enable them to get their jobs done with our solutions.
Rapid development opportunities, attractive performance bonuses, and the opportunity to strengthen your leadership skills and AI-first product expertise.
Step into a stable, forward-looking role within a dynamic scale-up poised to shape the fast-growing Security & Compliance industry through intelligent automation and intelligent interaction experiences.
THE QUALITIES YOU'LL NEED FOR A SUCCESSFUL CAREER AT DATAGUARD
6+ years in Product, including 2+ in B2B SaaS, with experience managing platform capabilities areas or product slices.
Proven experience automating product workflows, leveraging AI for prototyping and ideation, and implementing AI-feature strategies with measurable customer adoption and business impact.
Skilled in defining problems across multiple product areas and building modular roadmaps that deliver scalable, step-by-step value.
Track record of conducting 10+ monthly customer conversations across segments, · forecasting future customer needs to drive product strategy and roadmap prioritisation.
Strong command of analysing sales, usage and product metrics whilst ensuring an outcome-focused experimentation approach.
Experience in engaging and leading regular data reviews with cross-functional partners and influencing alignment on joint improvement initiatives.
Willingness to develop a deep understanding of Privacy, InfoSec & Compliance domains while staying current with regulatory shifts and industry best practices.
Obsession to lead with product demonstrations, that tie product releases to business outcomes, and communicate roadmap milestones with consistency across all stakeholder levels.
Comfortable experimenting with emerging AI tools and lightweight testing methods.
Strong understanding of software development processes, design principles, and ability to work effectively with Engineering teams on platform architecture decisions.
Ability to debate, disagree and commit, challenge assumptions, and ensure exploration is broad yet focused and demonstrable, while maintaining empathetic stakeholder relationships.
Be a reliable executor and deliver 80% of critical projects on time and within budget.
C1-level German for smooth collaboration with DACH stakeholders.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST. FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS:
No matter your origin, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, or individual requirements, at DataGuard, all that counts is the person you are. As Guards and Guardettes, we are united not only by our dedication but also by our shared belief in our purpose: Protect the people behind the data. Convince us with your personality and your skills, and together we will make great things happen. We are looking forward to meeting with you!
