Product Manager

Xebia is a global AI-first, digital transformation, and engineering partner with over 25 years of experience and a team of 5,000 professionals across 16 countries. In the CEE region, it employs nearly 1,000 experts delivering modern applications, data platforms, and AI solutions for clients including Millennium, ING, Play, and others. The company specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Data and Cloud, Intelligent Automation, and Digital Products, working with leading technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, and Snowflake.

• Proven experience as a Product Manager, including work on new digital products or product capabilities.
• Practical experience leading rapid prototyping, MVP, or proof-of-concept initiatives with software engineering teams.
• Strong product discovery skills, including customer interviews, problem identification, hypothesis validation, and feedback analysis.
• Experience working directly with customers to validate early product concepts and assess their business value.
• Ability to translate customer needs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and prioritized development scope.
• Experience testing prototypes or early product versions with real users and using feedback to inform product decisions.
• Ability to assess customer value and commercial potential, including willingness to pay.
• Ability to work closely with software engineers and technical stakeholders without being responsible for hands-on implementation.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to work independently, make pragmatic product decisions, and manage uncertainty in short development cycles.
• Practical experience using AI-powered assistants (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot Chat, or similar) to improve productivity, quality, or decision-making in analysis and software delivery.

• Leading product discovery, prototyping, and customer validation for an AI initiative.
• Working closely with a dedicated team of two software engineers to guide rapid prototyping and iterative product development.
• Understanding customer workflows, identifying key problems, and defining product hypotheses to validate.
• Engaging with 2–5 existing customers acting as design partners during the initial development cycle.
• Planning and facilitating customer interviews, prototype testing sessions, and feedback discussions.
• Translating customer insights and business needs into clear product requirements, acceptance criteria, and a prioritized scope.
• Collaborating with engineers and the client’s technical experts to assess feasibility, dependencies, and integration constraints.
• Coordinating validation of the working solution using real customer projects and data.
• Evaluating customer feedback, product usability, business value, and willingness to pay.
• Participating in weekly planning sessions with the client’s product counterparts and presenting progress during regular product demos.
• Ensuring product decisions and prototype scope support future integration with the client’s existing products.
• Presenting validation findings and recommendations to stakeholders to inform go/no-go decisions.
• Supporting further development and integration if the initiative passes the initial validation phase.

Work from the European Union region and a work permit are required.