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 j obs@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 !