Product Manager

BidX

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

BidX is looking for a Product Manager in part-time (~16 hours/week) to own the bridge between our commercial teams and our developers. You'll turn a stream of business needs - from account managers, clients, and leadership - into a prioritized, well-specified backlog the development team can execute against, and you'll own the system that decides what gets built next. This is a high-ownership role for someone who is energized by building order out of ambiguity. You won't be slotting into a mature product machine - you'll be building the machinery: the intake funnel, the scoring model, and the cadence that make prioritization fast, consistent, and defensible. Your area of responsibility will include the following Own prioritization end-to-end. Design and run a repeatable system to score, sequence, and communicate what gets built - replacing case-by-case decisions with a transparent, defensible process. Translate in both directions. Take business cases from account managers and clients and turn them into clear specs for developers; translate technical constraints back into terms the business understands. Spec features and close gaps. Write clear specifications for new features and improvements - from campaign-creation flows to reporting and automation. Coordinate migrations and dev dependencies. Keep multi-step technical initiatives moving, manage exceptions, and chase blockers before they stall. Own request intake and triage. Run backlog review, deduplicate tracking across boards, and evaluate a public roadmap/upvote tool so clients and Account Managers have a clear front door. Support strategic product bets. Contribute specs, feedback loops, and coordination for major initiatives - including our AI product layer. Keep product operations honest. Maintain status alignment across boards, clear release notes, and a trustworthy backlog.

Requirements

Structured thinking. You can take a messy stream of requests and impose order - categorize, score, sequence, and defend the sequence.
Strong communication across audiences. You write clear specs, run a clean backlog, and can hold a conversation with a developer and an account manager in the same afternoon without losing either. You're comfortable pushing back and saying "not now" with a reason.
Ownership and follow-through. You chase blockers, keep things from going silent, and close loops.
Comfortable operating under direction. You bring structure and a point of view while executing against priorities set by leadership. You want autonomy on how, not final say on what.
Fluent AI usage. You work AI into your daily workflow - not as a novelty, but as leverage. You understand agents and MCPs (Model Context Protocol), can design and run AI workflows to automate research, spec-writing, triage, and reporting, and can reason about where AI fits (and where it doesn't) in a product process.

Nice To Haves

Amazon Advertising knowledge. Familiarity with Sponsored Products/Brands/Display, DSP, bidding strategies, budget/lookback mechanics, ASIN structures, and AMC.
Technical literacy - enough to talk credibly with engineers about APIs, data models, migrations, and feasibility. You don't need to code, but you shouldn't be intimidated by a technical conversation.
Familiarity with SQL/MariaDB, data pipelines, and third-party APIs is a plus.
German - the dev team is Darmstadt-based and much internal communication is in German; Account Managers are international. Bilingual DE/EN is a practical advantage, not a must.
B2B SaaS product experience, ideally in ad-tech, e-commerce, or the Amazon ecosystem.
n8n (or similar workflow automation) - hands-on experience building automations in n8n, Make, Zapier, or comparable tools, especially wiring AI steps into multi-step workflows.

Responsibilities

Own prioritization end-to-end.
Design and run a repeatable system to score, sequence, and communicate what gets built - replacing case-by-case decisions with a transparent, defensible process.
Translate business cases from account managers and clients into clear specs for developers; translate technical constraints back into terms the business understands.
Write clear specifications for new features and improvements - from campaign-creation flows to reporting and automation.
Coordinate migrations and dev dependencies.
Keep multi-step technical initiatives moving, manage exceptions, and chase blockers before they stall.
Own request intake and triage.
Run backlog review, deduplicate tracking across boards, and evaluate a public roadmap/upvote tool so clients and Account Managers have a clear front door.
Support strategic product bets by contributing specs, feedback loops, and coordination for major initiatives - including our AI product layer.
Maintain status alignment across boards, clear release notes, and a trustworthy backlog.