Product Manager (m/f/x) - carbon negative materials
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Full time
Experience required:
Intermediate
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About the company:
Made of Air is a climate-focused materials company transforming waste biomass into high-value, carbon negative materials for industrial use.
Made of Air’s materials replace fossil materials and other composites in manufactured products. Composed of carbon sequestered from the atmosphere, the materials permanently remove CO2 and are thermoformed by standard industrial processes to meet millions of building and consumer product applications. Storing carbon in products enables manufactured goods to become an engineered carbon sink.
Our mission is to provide carbon negative materials to enact and inspire urgent, scale reversal of the climate crisis.
Made of Air’s materials replace fossil materials and other composites in manufactured products. Composed of carbon sequestered from the atmosphere, the materials permanently remove CO2 and are thermoformed by standard industrial processes to meet millions of building and consumer product applications. Storing carbon in products enables manufactured goods to become an engineered carbon sink.
Our mission is to provide carbon negative materials to enact and inspire urgent, scale reversal of the climate crisis.
Our mission is to provide carbon negative materials to enact and inspire urgent, scale reversal of the climate crisis.
How you’ll make a difference:
As a product manager (m/f/x), you will develop and own the product roadmap for a portfolio of carbon-negative materials. Working closely with the Business Development, R&D, and Production teams, you will be responsible for maximizing profitability and product market fit. The Product Manager is accountable for the full lifecycle of the products, from ideation and strategy through continuous value management.
What you will be doing:
- Own the product roadmap for a portfolio of carbon-negative materials, including overseeing testing and certification, leading material qualification with our customers, and continuously refining our value proposition.
- Gather technical and commercial requirements to develop new products and improve our existing market position.
- Provide market and product intelligence and benchmark competitor’s materials.
- Business context and objectives analysis - Learning what could bring additional value to value recipients via understanding of business domain, external practices, innovation research and direct observation in the field.
- Product strategy and vision - Developing a high-level product (group) strategy and vision that ties to the overall business strategy and identifying potential business value increase.
- Stakeholder orchestration - Orchestrating internal and external multi-functional stakeholders, including R&D, Production, Business Development/Sales, and Marketing, to define, validate and refine product (group) vision, strategy, definitions and roadmaps.
- Adoption & communication material - Preparing the strategy and communication material for creating a shared understanding of the product (group) including how to market and sell, deliver and operate and measure its success.
- Act as the business partner for the designated business stakeholder representatives to manage and control the pipeline and priorities of all business demands (incl. requests for change/improvement - from initial assessment to project execution to solution adoption)
- Continuously qualify and propose new innovation opportunities through active market intelligence
- Responsible for the budget - from creation to spend control (actual/forecast vs. planned)
- Drive optimization and rationalization of the application portfolio & landscape
We’re looking for:
- 3+ years in product management or similar roles
- Experience in materials or plastics strongly preferred
- Track record in shaping and managing product/product strategy
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Diligence in managing of different stakeholders inside and outside the company
- Technical knowledge of material compounds and thermoforming processes
- A proactive and multidisciplinary spirit, stress-resilience, and diverse thinking
- A drive to participate in an urgent climate mission
- BSc or Master’s degree in Engineering, Materials or Chemistry or equivalent experience
If you do not have all of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply anyway and tell us why your personal experience makes you an excellent candidate
We’re offering:
- An ambitious team with a shared passion for the climate. You will work in a transparent, fast-growing, and inspirational environment in which you are able to innovate and be challenged on a daily basis.
- Integration into a highly creative and interdisciplinary environment, with opportunities for financial and operations career development.
- The chance to be a pivotal member of a groundbreaking company.
- 28 paid days off on a full-time basis
- A permanent contract and a short probationary period of 3 months
- Mission-driven work that enacts the urgent reversal of climate change.
Our Values:
- Put People and Planet First
- Create Tangible Impact
- Build Trust through Transparency
We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion / worldview, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity
If you have questions you can call Franziska at +49 30 2237 4830 or write her at [email protected]
We are looking forward to getting to know you!
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