Senior Product Manager (m/f/d)

If you enjoy defining product strategy, taking ownership of cutting-edge AI features, and building high-impact tools for a fast-moving global team, this role is for you.

About Lano

Lano is a global payroll platform enabling companies to standardize and manage multi-country payroll operations through a unified technology layer. 

Your Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager (m/f/d) to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of AI-native features and smart automation across Lano’s product suite. In this role, you will work at the intersection of product, engineering, and data science to transform how international workforce operations are handled.

Please note: This is a hybrid position based at our office in Berlin, Germany.

Main tasks:

• Form AI Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the vision, strategy, and execution for AI-native features and smart automation across Lano's product suite.
• Identify High-Impact AI Use Cases: Uncover operational friction in global payroll and HR workflows (e.g., automated document parsing, payroll anomaly detection, smart data normalization, AI agent workflows) and translate them into scalable product features.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Work tightly with Engineering, Data Science, Design, and Operations to prioritize, build, ship, and iterate on high-quality features.
• Customer & Market Discovery: Deeply understand user personas (HR leaders, payroll ops, finance teams) through continuous user research, customer feedback, and market analysis.
• Define & Measure Impact: Track key product metrics (feature adoption, task automation rate, user retention) to ensure features drive bottom-line impact and customer value.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to ensure seamless rollouts, clear documentation, and enablement.

Your profile:

• Product Management Experience: 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager in a fast-paced B2B SaaS environment, shipping customer-facing digital products.
• Practical AI Expertise: Demonstrated understanding of applying AI/ML technologies (LLMs, NLP, structured data extraction, AI agents) to solve real business or workflow problems.
• Analytical & Solution-Oriented: Highly structured thinker with an ability to simplify complex data workflows and make data-informed decisions.
• Location: Based in or willing to relocate to Berlin, Germany (Hybrid setup at our Berlin HQ).
• Communication: Exceptional written and spoken business English.

Nice to Have:

• Payroll or HR Tech Domain: Experience or strong familiarity with global payroll, HR Tech, HRIS, or FinTech platforms.

What we offer:

• A flexible work environment that values work-life balance.
• Fitness membership with Classpass.
• 26 days of vacation per year.
• 2 social impact days to support a charity or non-profit of your choice.
• Career development and growth within a dynamic start-up.
• Collaborative and inclusive company culture and a diverse, international team!

We value humility and we're as interested in your character as we are in your talent. Please apply, even if you feel you only meet part of our listed criteria. Diversity drives innovation and we offer an international and friendly work environment with an energetic company culture. Just be yourself and maybe you’ll bring something valuable to the role we didn't initially think of.

At Lano we want to maximize the individual’s potential for all employees and reinforce an inclusive culture  and environment of continuous learning that empowers people to succeed as a team. In addition to humility, we value commitment, team spirit, respect, and kindness to build trusted relationships across teams.

If you have any questions or problems please reach out to us at [email protected]. However, we do not accept applications via email.