Associate Product Owner

TL;DR

Full-time. Berlin-based. No remote option available for this role. You sit with the PM.

Join GlassDollar as an Associate Product Owner and own the space between a good idea and a shipped feature.

Someone has to decide what "done" means, write it down clearly enough that an engineer can start on Monday, and stay close enough to the build that the scope does not quietly grow on the way. That is the job. You own it end to end: specs, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and a backlog that keeps everyone honest about what is actually shipping.

The Problem You'll Be Solving

A corporation with 100,000 employees has thousands of expensive operational problems, and somewhere out there a startup has already solved most of them. Getting those two facts to meet is slow, political, and mostly attempted in spreadsheets that die in someone's downloads folder.

GlassDollar OS is the venture clienting platform that makes it repeatable: sourcing the startups, matching them to real problems, running the pilots, and rolling out what works across the whole organisation.

What We're Looking For

• You have personally written the tickets. 3+ years in a product company, where scoping and ticket-writing were actually your job.
• You are technical enough to argue with engineers: AI models, API contracts, estimates, sequencing.
• You can write. A spec is a piece of writing.
• You write specs worth acting on, pulling together where the product is going, what clients are telling us, and the knowledge already sitting in the team.
• You know what looks good: a great sense of design and what feels good for users.
• You have worked somewhere small enough that there was nowhere to hide.
• You want to be coached hard: direct feedback, weekly, on your actual work.
• You are fluent with AI tooling, day to day.
• You want the scope to grow.

What You'll Do

• Turning opportunities into scoped, sequenced, estimable work: specs, acceptance criteria, edge cases, dependencies
• Running the backlog: grooming, prioritisation input, keeping the board honest about what is in flight, blocked, or quietly drifting
• Being the interface between customer signal (support threads, CS conversations, call notes) and the engineering queue
• Coordinating releases and checking that what shipped matches what was scoped
• Presenting product decisions to varied stakeholder groups, from engineers to enterprise clients

What You'll Be Scoping Over Your First Year

• Deep integrations into our customers' organisations: their systems, their data, their identity stack.
• Public REST APIs and MCP servers, so our customers' engineers and their AI agents can build on top of us.
• AI embedded across the product, inside the surfaces people already work in.
• Workflow automation inside the platform.

This is a doing role rather than a people-management one. Mid-to-senior individual contributor.

Requirements

• 3+ years in a product company, where you personally wrote the tickets
• Technical enough to understand a data model, an API contract, and estimation
• Demonstrable writing ability, be ready to share a spec, PRD or decision doc

Nice to have:

• B2B enterprise SaaS background
• Familiarity with venture clienting, corporate innovation, or startup-scouting workflows
• Notion fluency

How We Hire

Straightforward. Respectful of your time. No mystery steps.

1. Intro call: a quick chat to see if there's a match
2. Interview with the PM, including a brief introduction to the work sample: a spec, PRD, or decision doc
3. Interview
4. Offer: if it clicks, we don't wait around