(Associate) Product Manager

CareerOS is a B2B2C career platform serving 100+ top universities worldwide, including Oxford, INSEAD, London Business School, Georgetown, and Notre Dame. We help 500K+ users land jobs they love. We're a small, high-output team based in Barcelona, operating with American startup intensity. We ship fast, own our decisions, and push each other to do great work.

We work in small squads, each owning their own area of the product end-to-end.

We're looking for a Product Manager to own our university-facing features. This is a unique opportunity to own a complete side of our marketplace: the fast-growing university segment where we're adding 150+ new institutions in 2026 alone, enabling millions of students to optimally perform in their job search. You'll work directly with customer success, engineering, and design to ship enterprise features that our university partners depend on.

What you'll actually do

You'll own the full lifecycle of university features, from discovery to launch.

• Own the university side of the platform - You'll manage and execute on features that universities need to serve their students effectively. This includes career management tools, data and analytics capabilities, engagement features, and integrations. Your job is to ship high-quality enterprise features that drive adoption and retention.

• Manage stakeholders at universities - Join customer calls, gather requirements from career services teams, coordinate feature requests across multiple institutions. You'll translate what universities need into clear product requirements and ship solutions that work at scale.

• Execute end-to-end - You'll create user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation. You'll work side-by-side with engineers to ensure features ship on time and meet enterprise standards (GDPR compliance, SSO integrations, data exports, etc.). This is not a role where you write slides for stakeholders. You own it end-to-end.

• Leverage AI tools for speed - You'll use cutting-edge AI tools (Claude, Cursor, v0, Lovable, etc.) to move faster: prototyping interfaces, generating documentation, automating workflows, and occasionally shipping features yourself when it makes sense.

• Track adoption and usage - Monitor how universities use features, identify problems early, coordinate with customer success on training and rollout. You'll use SQL and analytics tools to understand feature performance and iterate quickly.

What we're looking for

Must-haves:

• 1-4 years in product management - You've shipped B2B or enterprise features before. You understand stakeholder management, requirement gathering, and working with customers who pay real money.

• AI-native product approach - You're completely on top of the latest AI technologies for product management: Claude, N8n, Zapier, Lovable, Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, v0. You use these tools daily to move from ideation through design to execution faster than traditional PMs. This is the pace we work at, and it's demanding but extremely rewarding.

• Strong execution skills - You're detail-oriented, organized, and can manage multiple features in parallel. You don't need hand-holding to get things done.

• Comfortable with enterprise B2B dynamics - You understand things like SSO, GDPR, data exports, customizations, and why enterprise customers need these. Bonus if you've worked with universities or educational institutions.

• SQL and analytics experience - You can query data yourself, build dashboards, and understand how features are being used without waiting for someone else.

• Excellent stakeholder management - You can talk to customers, gather requirements, say no when needed, and manage expectations. Universities can be demanding. You need to handle it professionally.

• Fluent English - Written and verbal. Essential for this role.

Strong signals:

• You've worked in B2B SaaS or educational technology before

• Experience with localization/internationalization of products

• You've managed integrations or technical B2B features

• Background in customer success or account management before transitioning to product

• You're comfortable working with remote dev teams

• You've used AI tools to ship product features independently

What this role is NOT

Let's be clear about expectations:

• ❌ Not a job at the bottom of the org - You'll work closely with the CPO, customer success team, and need to join university calls during European hours.

• ❌ Not a laid-back 9-to-5 - Universities have deadlines (semester starts, recruitment seasons, academic calendars). When they need something, we ship. That means occasional intense periods.

• ❌ Not a corporate PM role - We're a startup. This is not a role where you provide slides to "stakeholders." You own end-to-end execution. You'll have more freedom and ownership than a big company, but also more ambiguity and higher expectations. We ship fast and iterate.

What you get

• Competitive salary

• On-site role in Barcelona with a small, focused product team

• Report directly to the CPO (co-founder) - real mentorship and visibility into strategic decisions

• Clear ownership - you'll be THE person for the entire university side of our marketplace

• Work with top global universities (Oxford, Georgetown, INSEAD, etc.) as we scale to 250+ institutions

• Unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in a massive sector (higher education career services)

• Exposure to AI-native product development and modern tooling

• Room to grow as we expand to more markets and institutions