Principal Product Manager

About the role

As Principal Product Manager (Enterprise), your core mission is to establish the product direction and strategic direction for our Enterprise product which is powered by the joint capabilities of lemon.markets and dwpbank. This is a high-impact, newly created role that sits across product strategy, product management and cross-organisational collaboration and drives opportunities from concept to launch and adoption.

What you'll do

• Shape and drive forward our Enterprise product by identifying, evaluating and prioritising customer needs through a deep understanding of the market, our organisational context, our existing capabilities and the new capabilities we need.
• Take a critical view of current product opportunities, group opportunities and propose a clear roadmap and influence both lemon.markets and dwpbank to deliver it.
• Act as the primary product interface between lemon.markets and dwpbank for Enterprise opportunities, managing stakeholders at all levels including senior leadership.
• Lead by example, demonstrating strong product craft across the product development lifecycle by providing clear product direction, clarifying scope, making key priority calls, distilling alignment and creating clarity on new product and partner launches.
• Work cross-function and cross-domain across engineering, operations, compliance, risk and business development to scope solutions and ensure execution.
• Support org-wide craft standards and build scalable frameworks for how Enterprise product work is structured, documented and measured.
• Manage and develop your direct report, fostering their growth and ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Drive decision-making with data, continuously forming hypotheses, running experiments and measuring impact.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of product management experience, with a strong track record building and scaling complex, mission-critical platforms in financial services.
• Hands-on experience working in a highly regulated environment and understanding what "regulated" means day-to-day (risk, compliance, controls, auditability).
• Navigate complex stakeholder landscapes across multiple companies, create leadership-level buy-in, and drive alignment with a strong writing culture.
• Based in Germany, have the right to work in Germany, and are professionally fluent in English and German.
• Effective at bridging a fast-moving scale-up and a long-standing industry leader, working across organisational boundaries, diverse stakeholders, and different working cultures.

What they offer

• Competitive salary based on your experience and value-add.
• Flexible working hours with shared core hours 12:00 to 16:00.
• Hybrid work setup in Germany with required on-site days per month.
• Regular mentorship, stretch opportunities, career development framework and annual learning budget.
• Deutschlandticket sponsorship and 50% off Beatvest financial education.
• Workation: up to 10 consecutive days and 60 days per year remotely in the EU.