Leader of the Incubation team (m / f / d)

Vollzeit
Munich, Germany
vor 7 Monate
SHAPE THE FUTURE OF PRIVACY WITH USERCENTRICS

Usercentrics is a global leader in the field of consent management platforms (CMP). We follow our company vision to build a world where user privacy enables a thriving digital ecosystem. Our mission is to provide privacy solutions that empower organizations to embrace data privacy while building trust with their users through freedom of choice. With our product, businesses can collect, manage and document user consents on websites and apps, and achieve full compliance in accordance with global privacy regulations while facilitating high consent rates and building trust with their customers.We’re growing rapidly on a global scale riding the wave of privacy-led marketing, data compliance awareness and regulations. On top of growing double digits Usercentrics is profitable and expanding its team in our Lisbon, Munich and Prague offices.To fuel this growth and build our innovation capability in the mid-term, Usercentrics has the ambition to build and boost its incubation team. This is a highly agile team responsible for MVP-ing and validating multiple new propositions (product ideas) per year in parallel. The team will consist of approximately 6-7 contributors with product, marketing and development capabilities. Your job is to build, lead and manage this team towards success with a highly entrepreneurial/ bootstrap mindset. The goal is that the incubation team will eventually be at the core of product and feature expansion, M&A decisions and new products in our portfolio. 

Your Tasks

Team Leadership

  • Build and manage the incubation team at Usercentrics and make sure it stays connected to the broader UC organization 
  • Determine priorities, mentor and guide the energy of the team members and keep the vibe hands-on, curious and agile
  • Manage your own budget and resources
Deliver new validated propositions
  • Fill the pipeline with great new (B2B) proposition ideas, prioritize them based on potential and easiness to validate
  • Deliver at least four validated propositions per year ranging from MVPs, mock-ups, partner-products or any form that helps validating a proposition
  • Create awareness interest and action on your new propositions leveraging marketing expertise and -budget in your team
  • Validation goes beyond freemium, we are looking for customers showing willingness to pay
  • Keep an eye on the balance between speed and quality of validation 
  • Work with the Usercentrics product team in hand-over of successful propositions
Business cases
  • Prioritize your actions based on analysis of the proposition potential and easiness to validate 
  • Create a mini business case for each successfully validated proposition
  • Present the business case and convince stakeholders of further investment to go from MVP to full fledge product development

You Bring

  • An entrepreneurial mindset with hands-on energetic curiosity: you love to create something from nothing
  • Proven experience as an Incubation leader/(Senior) Product Manager/Tech Founder or in a similar role, preferably in a SaaS environment, together with a strong product sense
  • Expertise in managing an agile team, keeping them focused and energized
  • Business development experience, not afraid of creating pragmatic business cases
  • You can fall in love with an idea yet also say goodbye to it if it does not work
  • Great in prioritizing and making quick decisions
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions, yet continue to listen to gut feel as well
  • Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly changing scale-up environment. Self-starters and innovators with a positive, collaborative can-do attitude and bias for action are required
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Usercentrics we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why join Usercentrics?

  • Joining Usercentrics means becoming part of a fast-growing, diverse and international team of tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurially-minded who build our success story together
  • Company culture is important to us - we strive to continuously develop a positive, vibrant and inspiring environment that enables everyone to thrive both personally and professionally
  • Get involved! We have plenty of initiatives and love to see people from all department enthusiastically participating and shaping our future together in different cross-department projects
  • Your work-life balance is important to us too - we offer flexible working hours, hybrid working and the possibility of workcations (in accordance with our company policy)
  • We always remember to have fun along the way, both in our day-to-day work and at our regular team events on site in our offices in Munich, Copenhagen, Odense, Lisbon and Prague or online
  • You are the most valuable asset to our company which is why we’re happy to offer awesome benefits like our personal development budget, job-related language courses and a lot more (depending on your location) to focus on your well being