Product Manager, API

DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 100,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals worldwide to make sense of the world and express their ideas.

Our goal is to become the global leader in Language AI, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and make a real-life impact. To achieve this, we need talented individuals like you to join our exciting journey. If you're ready to work with a dynamic team and build your career in the fast-moving AI space, DeepL is your next destination.

What sets us apart is our blend of modern technology, competitive benefits, and an open, welcoming work culture that enables our people to thrive. When we share what it's like to work at DeepL, the reactions are overwhelmingly positive. This may be because of our products that have helped countless people worldwide or our shared mission to improve communication for individuals and businesses, bringing cultures closer together. What we know for sure is this: being part of DeepL means joining a team dedicated to innovation and employee well-being. Discover what our teams have to say about life at DeepL on LinkedIn, Instagram and our Blog.

Meet the team behind this journey

We seek an experienced Product Manager for our API & Partnerships team to collaborate with diverse internal and external stakeholders and build best-in-class programmatic interfaces for DeepL’s powerful AI capabilities. The API track currently has three mission teams—API Core,API Enterprise, and Partnerships.Although these teams collaborate closely, we need a skilled PM to lead the mission and growth of API capabilities within the Core team. This sub-team's mission is to expand API features that enable developers to integrate DeepL translations into any software product.

Your responsibilities

• Contribute to the mission, strategy and roadmap for API Core.

• Lead a collaborative team process to translate user and business needs into development requirements that drive impact

• Define metrics and KPIs to measure and report progress

• Ensure the maximum Return on Investment for all of your team’s efforts

• Communicate strategy, ideas and concepts clearly, aimed at the right audience, with the help of insight and data

• Identify opportunities for new features and products that leverage the global scale of our user base and data

• Cooperate with the team of engineers, the Engineering Manager and counterparts in other DeepL departments to foster a culture of trust and maintain a healthy team with predictable delivery performance

Qualities we look for

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager on a technology product

• Strong technical background: a computer science degree and/or previous software development experience and/or previous experience working specifically on an API product

• Experience in driving the product lifecycle– research, prototyping, iterative development and testing, launch, and continuous improvement

• Consistency in using qualitative and quantitative insights to define strategy, goals and

  roadmap

• Data focus. You base your decisions on facts, not opinion, and always seek to validate any hypothesis both before and after implementation

• Experience working on a product at scale, with an international footprint

• Strong communication and presentation skills with the help of insight and data

What we offer

• Diverse and internationally distributed team: joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities. We're more than just colleagues; we're a group of professionals with a shared mission to connect diverse cultures. Our global presence is growing–we've doubled in size nearly every year, with our employees based in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and we continue to expand our network.

• Open communication, regular feedback: as a language-focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication. We value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy makes us better together.

• Hybrid work, flexible locations and hours: whether you're near or in our hubs in cities like Cologne, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, or NYC, you decide where your office is. We offer hybrid opportunities (3 days in office), flexible working hours and trust in your productivity, all in sync with your team's general locations and time zones to foster effective and seamless collaboration. Our aim is to integrate your work with your lifestyle, ensuring a balance that respects both your needs and our operational requirements.

• Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are as unique as our team, from local team and business unit gatherings, to new-joiner onboardings, to company-wide events that bring us all together–literally.

• 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind. With 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources, we make sure you're as strong mentally as you are professionally.

• Annual learning budget: because we never stop learning, we’ve set up an annual budget for your professional development—pick a learning path which contributes to your career development and we'll back you up.

• Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role. We believe everyone should share in our success, and that’s why every employee receives Virtual Shares, linking your contribution directly to DeepL’s growth and rewarding you with a stake in our future.

You are welcome at DeepL for who you are—we appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our diversity that we will find the power to break down language barriers in the world.