Chief Product Officer – ERP System for the Housing Industry

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Create a long-term product vision for WOWIPORT.

• Convert customer insights, market dynamics, and technological advancements into a strategic product roadmap.

• Prioritize projects based on customer value, alignment with strategic goals, business justification, and required effort.

• Cultivate strong relationships with housing companies and cooperatives while representing WOWIPORT in the marketplace.

• Consistently engage customers in discovery sessions, discussions, advisory boards, feedback loops, and solution validation.

• Integrate AI agents into the phases of discovery, prototyping, and specification.

• Create interactive prototypes and assess solution variations with customers.

• Collaborate with the CTO to establish a process for identifying customer problems and developing tested features.

• Define business rules and acceptance criteria for implementation packages utilized by coding agents.

• Ensure functional acceptance of features, with the CTO maintaining technical responsibility and approval authority.

• Advance WOWIPORT into an AI-driven ERP platform.

• Identify and prioritize AI applications.

• Assess strategic product partnerships and execute relevant initiatives.

• Enhance product management, leadership capabilities, and organizational frameworks.

• Promote ownership, transparency, customer-centricity, and commercial acumen.

• Evaluate product initiatives, investments, and the portfolio based on KPIs, usage metrics, customer value, and business justification.

• Collaborate with the CTO to further refine success measurement metrics.

• Provide the product perspective in key business decisions as part of the management team.

• Actively contribute to the strategic development of Dr. Klein Wowi Digital AG.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of experience as a CPO, VP of Product, or Head of Product in a B2B SaaS environment, preferably within the ERP sector.

• Proven experience in managing complex software products, platforms, or product portfolios.

• Demonstrated ability to translate business objectives and market, customer, and technology trends into product strategies and priorities.

• Practical experience in utilizing AI agents in real-world product development and facilitating their adoption within a team.

• Capable of developing testable, interactive prototypes with AI agents and validating them with customers.

• Proficient at differentiating between a demo, customer value, and readiness for production.

• Understanding of how specifications, coding agents, testing, and reviews interconnect.

• Ability to craft clear, precise, and verifiable implementation packages in collaboration with Engineering.

• Experience working closely with enterprise customers.

• Knowledge of modern software and platform models, as well as AI applications.

• Experience in building or further enhancing product teams and organizations.

• Proven ability to lead teams through change and transformation initiatives.

• An entrepreneurial mindset with experience in setting and achieving goals and KPIs.

• A strategic vision paired with robust execution capabilities.

• Willingness to engage in customer discussions, validate product concepts, and drive prioritization decisions.

• A responsible approach to data handling.

• Eagerness to thoroughly understand the processes employed by housing companies and cooperatives.

• Ideally, experience in real estate, the housing sector, or the PropTech industry.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours based on trust.

• Remote work options.

• Opportunities for workation.

• Sabbatical options.

• 30 days of vacation, plus the flexibility to take an additional 20 vacation days.

• After-work gatherings.

• Foosball table for recreational activities.

• Access to a fitness room and various sports offerings through Wellhub.

• Table tennis facilities.

• Kids' office available.

• Refrigerators stocked with drinks, snacks, and fresh fruit.

• Portafilter coffee machine for coffee enthusiasts.

• Financial support for a HypoBike.

• Subsidy for the Deutschlandticket.

• Choice of hardware.

• Employee discounts.

• Company pension scheme.

• External employee counseling service.

• Option to bring your dog to the office.