Associate Product Operations Manager

We're Celonis, the global leader in Process Mining technology and one of the world's fastest-growing SaaS firms. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock productivity by placing data and intelligence at the core of business processes - and for that, we need you to join us., Celonis helps some of the world's largest and most esteemed brands make processes work for people, companies and the planet. With over 5,000 enterprise customer deployments across nearly every industry, the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform uses process mining and AI to give you a living digital twin of your business operation. It's system-agnostic and without bias, and empowers companies to reduce waste, create value and benefit people across the top, bottom, and green lines. Since 2011, the Celonis platform has enabled its customers to identify more than $18 billion in value. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.

Ihre Aufgaben

Product Operations is a team in our Product & Engineering organization reporting into our Product Chief Operating Officer. The main objective of Product Operations is to help our product management function scale well. We do so by establishing consistent cross-functional practices and frameworks (e.g. for roadmap planning, product launches, feature requests,...), executing programs & projects to enable product managers to manage their tasks with low friction, as well as facilitating and aggregating business, customer, and market data & insights.

The Product Operations Manager acts as trusted advisor and business partner to Product Management while working cross-functionally with engineering operations, go-to-market and many more departments in the rest of the company (Marketing and Communications, Legal, InfoSec, Data Protection, Enablement, Partner Management, Customer Value Org, Finance, ..).

The Role: You will be owning the execution of some of our most important processes in the product organization. You will be responsible for running these processes as well as for making them more efficient by e.g. implementing automations.

Our most important processes include:

Feature request process = how we collect and manage requests for new product features from customers and our go-to-market (GTM) departments

Product review meetings = how we drive alignment make decisions regarding the product's development, features, and direction

Early customer engagement programs = how we interact with customers early in the development lifecycle for new product features to get their feedback and iterate quickly

Product launches = how we launch new products across 10+ departments including Technical Writing, Legal, Support, Enablement, Commercials, Marketing & Comms, and GTM Strategy

The work you'll do:

As a starting point, you will own the execution of our feature request (FR) process. Based on your capacity and your progress, your scope can increase over time to owning the execution of other important processes as described above.

The FR process allows our customers, partners, and our go-to-market (GTM) departments to submit requests for new product features to the Product & Engineering (PnE) team. The requests get regularly assessed by the PnE team. The FR process is a very important process for the company - it's the most popular feedback channel to the PnE teams and helps the product managers in making better roadmap decisions by getting more insight into what customers need and are asking for.

Your job is twofold. On the one hand, you are responsible for the day-to-day operations and executing this process end-to-end. On the other hand, you are responsible for increasing the efficiency of executing the process, as an example by means of simplifying particular steps in the process, implementing automations, etc. Given that Celonis has more and more customers with more and more users who are requesting new features, continuously increasing the efficiency of the process is absolutely essential to maintain a great customer experience.

The FR process is a great way to get started with your career in the product organization - it allows you to gain broad and deep insights into the product, understand what customers need and why, and interact directly with our product managers to understand how they are qualifying those requests and how they use them to inform their roadmap.

Ihr Profil

• Technical Bachelor's or Master's degree, such as in Computer Science, Big Data, etc.

• Strong communication skills with a keen interest in interacting with potential customers.

• Demonstrated ability to understand and empathize with customers' needs and challenges.

• Ability and willingness to tackle complex problems using both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

• A proactive attitude, taking initiative and driving tasks to completion.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. German is a plus.

Wir bieten Ihnen

What Celonis Can Offer You:

• The unique opportunity to work with industry-leading process mining technology

• Investment in your personal growth and skill development (clear career paths, internal mobility opportunities, L&D platform, mentorships, and more)

• Great compensation and benefits packages (equity (restricted stock units), life insurance, time off, generous leave for new parents from day one, and more). For intern and working student benefits, click here.

• Physical and mental well-being support (subsidized gym membership, access to counseling, virtual events on well-being topics, and more)

• A global and growing team of Celonauts from diverse backgrounds to learn from and work with

• An open-minded culture with innovative, autonomous teams

• Business Resource Groups to help you feel connected, valued and seen (Black@Celonis, Women@Celonis, Parents@Celonis, Pride@Celonis, Resilience@Celonis, and more)

• A clear set of company values that guide everything we do: Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future