Your Responsibilities
Your Impact
As a Senior/Staff Product Manager, you will play a critical role in shaping our product vision and strategy to create future-proof supply chains for SMEs—the backbone of the European economy. Acting at the intersection of product management, UX design, and software development, you will coordinate and oversee the continuous improvement of our software, from concept to testing and implementation. You will identify customer needs and ensure our software is developed to address real-world challenges, delivers value to customers, and is commercially successful. Additionally, you will significantly impact the development of our organization, improving processes and structures to establish an excellent product organization.
Key Tasks:
- Product Vision & Strategy: Develop and implement a comprehensive product strategy and define a long-term product roadmap.
- Customer-Centric Prioritization: Prioritize product ideas aligned with our strategy based on quantitative data and qualitative feedback, ensuring our product provides value to customers.
- Product Positioning: Position our product in the market by highlighting its unique selling points in alignment with market trends and competitive developments.
- UX/UI Collaboration: Work closely with our UX/UI team, coordinating product discovery by validating ideas and ensuring we develop relevant solutions for customers.
- Tech Collaboration: Partner with our tech team to test new features and empower engineers to implement them.
- Stakeholder Management: Communicate with stakeholders inside and outside the organization to develop and test hypotheses.
- Organization & Structure: Establish processes and structures to facilitate better product decision-making.
Your Profile
What You Bring:
- You are motivated to build something from scratch and willing to roll up your sleeves.
- You have over 2–5 years of experience in product management, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment, and are ambitious about building an excellent product organization.
- You have at least 2 years of experience in a dynamic, high-paced environment (e.g., a well-backed VC startup or top tech company).
- Ideally, you have experience in scaling a successful startup or founding your own venture.
- You are passionate about industrial companies, SMEs, and supply chains—one of the most complex, unsolved challenges of our time.
- You possess a solid understanding of both technical and commercial aspects.
- You enjoy working with an interdisciplinary, diverse, and international team.
- You have strong communication skills in English and German, both written and verbal.
We know that perfect candidates don’t exist, and we don’t have specific “minimum qualifications.” We want to learn more about you and value your motivation and ability to help shape the future of the industrial world with us.
About Us
What We Do:
We are Tacto, a Munich-based startup on a mission to create future-proof supply chains for industrial SMEs—digital, efficient, and sustainable. Our intelligent supplier management platform strengthens the backbone of the European economy: industrial SMEs. We help our customers manage suppliers, optimize procurement processes, and ensure sustainable supply chains. Together with today’s hidden champions, we aim to digitally and sustainably transform the industrial world.
Why This Matters:
- We’re empowering the backbone of the European economy, industrial SMEs, with tens of millions of employees, to enter the digital age.
- We enable seamless collaboration across company boundaries in supplier networks, fostering future growth.
- We optimize the 50–70% of costs and emissions of physical products that come from suppliers, saving resources along the supply chain.
Why You Should Join Us:
- Timing: Our product already manages hundreds of millions of euros of materials for physical products, from bread slicers to medical devices. SMEs trust us, and we’re ready to scale! Shape the future of our company and product with us.
- Top Investors Believe in Us: We are supported by first-class investors such as Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Visionaries Club, UVC Partners, and the founders of Personio, GetYourGuide, Helsing & Forto. Join us and show them they made the right choice!
- The Team: We are an interdisciplinary and international team (from over six countries) motivated to scale Tacto while enjoying the journey. Work with us to grow personally and professionally!
- Impact: We are redefining industrial procurement, the largest value driver in the industry. No physical product exists without procurement's significant involvement. Help us secure the future of this crucial economic sector with over 10 million employees in Germany alone.
What We Offer
Aside from the people, our culture, and mission, we provide a workplace with above-average compensation and significant ownership opportunities. We aim to create an environment where you can grow both professionally and personally:
- Your Vacation: 26 paid vacation days per year, plus Christmas and New Year’s Eve off.
- Your Office: We foster an office culture where employees love coming to our beautiful space at Königsplatz in Munich. However, you can also work from home occasionally (our guideline is 3–4 days in the office, 1–2 days remote).
- Your Setup: Choose your preferred equipment and work environment—Mac/Windows/Linux—whatever suits you best.
- Your Team: We’re growing and having fun together with team lunches, coffee dates, chess games, bouldering sessions, and more.
- Your Safe Space: We value diversity and believe that incorporating different perspectives and ideas makes us stronger.
- Your Health: We offer company health insurance (if you’re new to the German job market) and memberships in Urban Sports Club or Wellpass.