Job Description
About The Company
GROPYUS is a technology-based construction company focused on building multi-story residential buildings. Thanks to its prefabricated building system with various design options, industrial offsite construction, and fully digitalized processes, the company manufactures aspirational, sustainable, and affordable homes using timber construction methods. GROPYUS is using scalable construction and manufacturing solutions to tap into a future market, boost Europe’s strength in innovation, while also playing a substantial role in improving sustainability.
About the Role:
This role sits in the Product team of our Digital Building System & Planning (DBSP) vertical, whose function is to provide the essential link in our digital value chain between our physical building planning teams and our product delivery and execution teams, who coordinate the automated production and site assembly of our projects.
As a Product Manager on this team, you will help drive the development of the key digital products which define our building system and enable its scalable application to our growing number of building projects.
What you’ll be doing:
Manage and coordinate the development of the GROPYUS digital products that enable fast and efficient building product design and project planning across the digital value chain
Align regularly with our stakeholders across different departments and teams to translate current and future user needs into product requirements
Help manage our vertical’s roadmap, together with your product management colleagues and in alignment with the DBSP Heads, our Tech Leads, and their teams of software engineers, to ensure efficient utilization of resources and a delivery plan in line with our quarterly goals
Apply product lifecycle management principles to the development of our products, ensuring steady improvement of the evolving product in terms of cost, quality, and efficiency, while maintaining data consistency across versions
You will work closely with:
The DBSP Tech software engineering team; one of the Tech Leads will be your working pair from the Technology Business Unit
Our embedded designer from the Product Design team, who contributes their expertise to the user experience and the various user interfaces of our products
The Building System Team, who together with Building Product and Building Technical Infrastructure (BTI), defines the architectural and engineering design of our building system
The Product Delivery Team, with whom we interface for the production and assembly of our building projects
The Solutions Team, who implements our building system product in our live building projects
What you bring:
You are a product manager with at least 3+ years of experience, ideally with a BSc or MSc; experience with tech products in the architecture, engineering, or construction sectors a plus
You have experience managing the development of innovative, specialized digital tools, either for internal or external applications; familiarity with architectural or engineering planning software is a plus
You enjoy problem solving and excel at finding user-centric solutions to complex problems with many moving parts and multiple stakeholders
You are comfortable and confident in setting high-level goals aligned with an overall strategy, and breaking these down into features and deliverables in the form of quarterly goals and epic-level roadmaps for your team
You are a skilled communicator and excel at stakeholder management and user communication, able to interpret their needs and goals in a way that can be translated into product features and functions
You have a proven ability to operate as a Product Manager within a Product/Tech vertical organizational structure, collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering, design, and delivery teams
What We Offer
An unlimited contract with 30 vacation days.
Flexible, hybrid work: You can work from home or come into the office on the schedule that works best for you. Feel like traveling and working from another location? No problem. Tune into meetings and work from abroad for up to 40 days per year. In addition, flex hours allow you to prioritize important moments in your day.
Attractive perks and benefits: We offer a company pension scheme, language courses (English/German), and employee discounts with selected sustainable brands. Furthermore, our external partners in mental health support you in strengthening your mental health through anonymous private/group sessions.
Virtual Shares Program: Participate in the success of GROPYUS through our Virtual Share Program.
Ownership: You can truly make your mark with your work and contributions – on all our organizational levels. Find your solutions, drive and test them.
The chance to be part of something big: Our mission is to rethink an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and fostering sustainable, affordable living.
A diverse and enriching work environment: Become a valued member of a wonderfully diverse team of individuals from over 50 countries. At GROPYUS we value inclusion above all, ensuring that everyone feels they belong – no matter their background. In this way, our differences become strengths that help us grow as a team.
