(Senior) Product Manager - Gaming (m/f/d) at internationally growing educational gaming start-up

Festanstellung, Vollzeit · Remote, UK

About Edurino

EDURINO is a new way of educational gaming loved by kids and parents alike. We rethink how kids learn and play with our hybrid learning system that combines a digital app, real figurines and our ergonomic stylus. Our team is dedicated to creating innovative and interactive, game-based learning experiences for preschoolers between 4-8+ years old.
We have a strong investor backing (a.o. DN Capital, Tengelmann Ventures, FJ Labs, b2venture, and Emerge Education) and are about to expand our reach to more learners around the globe!

Role Purpose
We're on the lookout for a (Senior) Product Manager (m/f/d) who is passionate about creating educational games for children. This role is crucial in steering our game production teams towards developing engaging, user-centric games that not only entertain but also educate. You'll lead product decisions, ensuring our games are fun and engaging for our young audience while meeting the highest educational standards. This position requires strong leadership skills to guide and influence the product development process.

This role can be performed in our Munich office, Berlin co-working space and/or remotely in Germany or the UK. #LI-Remote #LI-Hybrid

Sounds exciting?
Then read on (CV is enough!)

The Product team is looking forward to meeting you!

Apply for this job if you are passionate about…

… transforming education through gaming.
… supporting us in scaling an innovative kids product.
… contributing in a fast-growing start-up environment.

Your mission at EDURINO

User-Centric Design: Guide our development process with a focus on our young users, incorporating feedback from children, parents, and educators to create intuitive and engaging game experiences.
Game Vision: Support our VP Product in crafting and executing a compelling gaming product vision that aligns with our educational goals and standards, ensuring our games deliver meaningful learning experiences.
Data-Informed Strategy: Define & utilise data analytics to guide product decisions, measure learning outcomes, and optimise game engagement and effectiveness.
Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate closely with project managers, game designers, developers, educational consultants, data analysts and our marketing team to ensure product decisions are aligned and executed seamlessly.
Market and Educational Trends: Stay on top of the latest trends in educational technology and gaming for children, leveraging insights to inform product strategy and innovation.
Product Advocacy: Champion the product internally and externally, ensuring all stakeholders understand its value and impact on children's learning.

It is a match if you…

... have 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in game development, consumer technology or a related field focused on children's products.
... possess a strong portfolio demonstrating experience in developing user-centric, educational content or games.
... demonstrate a proven ability to lead product strategy and innovation, influencing cross-functional teams to achieve product goals.
... have exceptional analytical skills with experience in using data to inform product decisions and measure educational outcomes.
... have excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate product vision and strategy to a diverse range of stakeholders.

Starting date

as soon as possible

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About us

What we believe in

We believe that, in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas and cultures leads to the creation of better products. We hire people who are passionate about the product and team, and we favor ability and willingness to learn over experience. EDURINO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender. We foster a work environment that enables personal and professional growth and always strive to find the truth in discussions, independent of seniority or position as all opinions are respected.

What makes us special

A start-up culture based on trust with flat hierarchies. Join an early stage start-up, take on responsibility from day 1 and be part of the ride.
A hybrid working mode. Work remotely from wherever you like within Germany or work from our office in Munich (Haidhausen).
Regular company events. We meet in Munich every 4 months and do fun stuff together. Travel expenses covered.
Regular team events (online and offline). While remote, we meet online for a pub quiz or a drawing game. While in Munich, we go hiking at Tegernsee, we meet at the "Biergarten" or we do an exit game.
A multicultural team and English first as our company language. We believe that a variety of perspectives, ideas and cultures lead to better products.
A share package for every employee. You benefit from the exit of a rapidly growing company.
Family-friendliness and work-life balance. We have trust-based working hours that offer a maximum of flexibility and self-management.
Development Opportunities. We offer personal development time during working hours and a yearly development budget of 1.000€.
Additional benefits. KITA allowance (Germany), the hardware you need (e.g. Mac or Windows), employee benefit offerings with exclusive discounts, bike leasing (JobRad), and a company pension scheme.

How to become part of the team

We look forward to receiving your application (CV is enough!). Once we have reviewed it and decide to invite you, we schedule a first 30-minute interview where we get to know each other. After our company presentation, you will have the space to tell us why you would be the perfect fit for us and we are happy to answer all of your questions.
Depending on the position, there is now a small homework for you - either an art/coding test or the elaboration of some questions within a case study.
We schedule another interview with the direct report of your position. You will elaborate the task or questions you have solved.
You (e-)meet one of the co-founders. Depending of the position, we will now ask you for some references.
After a couple of days, we will get back to you with the final decision and you become part of #teamedurino, yay!
The following onboarding steps include meetings with your onboarding buddy and your team members, getting to know everyone from both our business and tech team and of course receiving your EDURINO onboarding box!

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