Senior Product Manager (m/f/d)

Why Nesto - why now?

Nesto builds workforce -management software for restaurants , where shift- based work demands more than office software adapted for frontline teams. Today, we help plan work for more than 100,000 employees across thousands of restaurants , including McDonald’s, L’Osteria and Lagardère. We are growing beyond scheduling and building an agentic system of action that can help restaurant groups plan shifts , flag risks and close gaps .

As Senior Product Manager for the HR Core System, you will shape the people , administration and payroll foundations behind this ambition . You will have direct ownership in a product area with much still to build , working closely with Engineering, Product Design, Customer Success and Support. We work honestly and take responsibility for mistakes . If you want to learn from real customer workflows and make evidence-based product decisions , you will find meaningful scope here .

Your responsibilities at Nesto

• You own the HR and administration product area and help to shape its strategy as a core part of Nesto’s overall product strategy.
• You run on-site discovery with HR teams , managers and employees including visits to customer restaurants , and distinguish one -off requests from core problems that affect many customers .
• You own the problem-roadmap for the HR Core System and make trade-offs between customer needs, legal and collective-agreement requirements, technical complexity and commercial value explicit.
• You work with Engineering and Product Design on data models , permissions , integrations and payroll interfaces and surface dependencies early , including where time data flows from workforce management into HR and payroll .
• You define measurable outcomes before major investments including the telemetry needed to track progress and evaluate whether a solution delivers the intended value .
• You analyse adoption and drop -offs after lau nc h and decide whether an initiative should be scaled , adapted or stopped .

Your background that sets you apart

You combine product ownership with the curiosity and technical judgement needed to make complex administrative workflows clear and valuable .

• You bring 3 to 5 years of productmanagementexperience withclearownership of a defined area in a B2B SaaS environment.
• Youhaveexperiencewith HR, payrollorcomparableregulated administrative processes throughyourworkor a substantial project.
• Youunderstand end usersthroughdirectexposure to theirwork and canexplaintheirday-to-dayworkflows, constraints and priorities.
• Youlearnnewdomains quickly askprecisequestions and break unclearproblemsintosmaller, solvable parts.
• You canreadlaws and collectiveagreementswellenough to informproductdecisions and knowwhen to involve legal orpayrollexperts. You do not need to be a lawyer.
• You bring practicaltechnicalunderstanding and candiscuss data models, APIs and integrationswithengineers. Youworkeffectivelywith AI-assisteddevelopmentworkflowswithoutneeding to write code.
• Youhavedefinedproductoutcomes and evaluatedthemwithusage data such as funnels, adoptionpatterns and workflowcompletion.
• Youcommunicatefluently in German and English withcustomers and cross-functionalcolleagues in writing and conversation.
• Youmakeprogresswithincompleteorcontradictoryinformation and stateclearlywhatyouknow, whatyou do not know and whatneeds to bevalidated.

Optional advantages :

• Youhavepracticalexperiencewithagenticor AI-assisted software development especially in discovery and refinement.
• Youhaveworkedwith HR coresystems, payroll interfaces orrecruitingtools.
• You bring experiencefromhospitality, restaurantsoranother shift-based, desklessworkforceenvironment.

We are successful in the first year if we have…

• You established a clear strategy and problem.roadmap for the HR and administration area that makes priorities and critical trade-offs transparent.
• Youbuilt a regular on-site discoverypractice with HR teams, managers and employees, and used the evidence to distinguishbroadcustomerproblemsfrom individual requests.
• Youdelivered and iterated HR Core System improvements thataddressvalidatedworkflowsacross HR, payroll and restaurant operations.
• Yousurfaced and manageddependenciesearly across data models, permissions, integrations, payrollinterfaces and workforce-management time data.
• Youputmeaningfuloutcomemeasures and telemetry in place for major initiatives and used the evidence to scale, adaptor stop work after launch.

What this role is NOT

• You are not a backlog administrator who only turns requests into tickets without owning the underlying problem and outcome.
• You are not expected to be a lawyer or payroll specialist but you must recognise when expert input is needed for a product decision.
• You do not own every Nesto product area because your focus is the HR and administration product area within the HR Core System.
• You do not hand finished specifications to Engineering and Product Design because the role requires shared decisions throughout discovery and delivery.

You’re in the right place if...

• You ask what changed for the customer because we built this as often as you ask what should be built next.
• You find HR and payroll problems interesting and want to understand them in depth.
• You explain your priorities and decisions clearly to Engineering, Product Design and other stakeholders.
• You decide together with engineers and designers rather than handing over finished specifications.
• You work transparently and responsibly by making assumptions, risks and trade-offs visible early and using feedback to improve your decisions.

Do you have any questions about the job posting? Feel free to contact us

jobs@nesto-software.de Bianca Gräder People Managerin

Please apply with examples of a B2B SaaS product area you have owned, the customer problem you addressed , how you used discovery and data to make decisions , and the outcome you achieved . For questions , contact Bianca at jobs@nesto-software.de .

We look forward to hearing from you !

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