[Paris] Product Manager (PO/PM)

<h1><strong><u>About Dedale:</u></strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Dedale is a fast-growing intelligence company. We are the go-to source for investment and strategic intelligence in the B2B technology market. Our product supports private-equity investors, corporate strategy teams and M&amp;A advisors make sense of complex markets: proprietary intelligence on 50,000+ companies across 500+ Tech segments supported by market and deal data, expert perspectives.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our product is growing fast with more than 1,500 clients already relying on it and an ambitious roadmap to scale fast.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong><u>About the role:</u></strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">As our Product Manager (PO / PM), you will own product delivery across the <strong>full scope of the Dedale platform</strong>, end-to-end, from discovery to shipped feature. You will join our <strong>product and engineering team</strong>, report directly to the <strong>CPO</strong>, and work closely, day to day, with our 30+ data team, our research team, and our external design partner.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You own your product area end-to-end: talk to internal and external users, shape the roadmap with the CPO, write the specs, guide the engineering team and drive delivery to launch. <strong>You own outcomes, not hand-offs</strong>: you decide what ships, define what “good” looks like, and make sure it lands. High-impact, high-autonomy, with a clear path toward Lead Product Manager and Product Director.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">One specificity of product at Dedale: our software is only as strong as the data beneath it. So part of the role is keeping the product and data roadmaps in step and working with our <strong>Head of Data</strong> and <strong>Senior Data Engineer</strong> so features and the data they rely on are ready together.Staying curious about new tools and approaches, and bringing that curiosity to the team.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong><u>Your first 3 months:</u></strong></h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>First 2 weeks:</strong> get to know the platform, the users and the team, and take the backlog in hand</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>First month:</strong> own the backlog and ship your first releases, at a steady cadence</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>By month 3:</strong> run your product area end-to-end, discovery to launch; owning the roadmap, the quality bar, and the outcomes for your area</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><u>Your Key Responsibilities:</u></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Product Ownership &amp; Delivery</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the roadmap and a well-groomed backlog for the product, set with the CPO and prioritized on user value and impact</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write crisp user stories, specs and acceptance criteria the engineering team can build from</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with the engineering team to ensure they have all they require to ship in an agile and pro-active approach</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">In alignment with the Head of Engineering, make scope and trade-off calls transparently, balancing value, effort and readiness</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Discovery &amp; User Value</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Talk to users (investors, analysts, research and go-to-market teams) and turn their pain points into problems worth solving</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Validate ideas quickly (user interviews, prototypes, data spot-checks) before committing build effort</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Brief and partner with our <strong>external design agency</strong>; frame the problem, review designs in <strong>Figma</strong>, keep the bar high</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define success metrics and track them post-release in <strong>PostHog</strong> (adoption, usage, satisfaction)</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Quality &amp; Reliability</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the <strong>definition of done</strong> and release acceptance: the product works, and the data behind it is correct, before it ships</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Hold a high quality bar: catch regressions, triage and prioritize bugs, fix root causes</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Monitor releases post-launch (usage, errors, data quality) and close the loop fast</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with the engineering team to maintain a buffer for continuous improvement of the product and ensuring an increasing quality day-by-day</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with engineering and data on test coverage and release readiness</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Keeping Tech &amp; Data in sync</strong><em> our specificity, with the Head of Data and Senior Data Engineer</em></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Co-plan releases so each feature and its data land together: no feature waiting on data, no data with nowhere to go</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Keep a shared view of what data (pipelines, enrichment, tagging, taxonomies) must be ready for which feature, and by when</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Communication &amp; Stakeholder Management</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Keep leadership, go-to-market and research stakeholders aligned on roadmap, progress and trade-offs and be the reliable translator between technical, data and business audiences</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong><u>What we are looking for:</u></strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Must-haves:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>3 to 6 years</strong> as a Product Owner and/or Product Manager on a <strong>software product</strong> (ideally B2B SaaS)</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong <strong>agile delivery</strong> track record: backlog ownership, clear specs, and a habit of shipping regularly</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Solid product and business sense</strong>: you run discovery, understand needs and usage, prioritize well, and define and track success metrics</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Comfortable with data</strong>: you have worked on a product with a real data layer and can hold your own with data engineers on coverage and quality</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Fluent English is essential</strong>: it is our common working language, and many of the team don’t speak French. French is a plus, not a requirement</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Exposure to <strong>AI / LLM-powered features</strong>, search or retrieval products</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Nice-to-haves:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with <strong>private equity, financial services, market intelligence or data-provider</strong> environments</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Analytical and hands-on: comfortable checking things yourself in <strong>SQL</strong> or a BI/analytics tool</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with taxonomies, metadata, knowledge bases or content-heavy platforms</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Who you are:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You treat a feature as unfinished until it is genuinely done (working, tested, and the data correct) while balancing pace of shipping</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You are proactive and curious, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><u>What we offer:</u></h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">High autonomy and direct impact from day one</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A collaborative, intellectually stimulating environment at the intersection of data, AI and decision-making</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Competitive compensation package</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">High proximity with all teams at Dedale, benefitting from our startup/horizontal organization</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Flexible, remote-friendly working and an international, English-speaking team, based in Paris</p></li></ul><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.fr/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in France</a> on Arbeitnow</a>