Product Manager - Growth & Discovery (m/f/d)

📍Location: Remote within Germany (Note, that we cannot provide visa sponsorship at the moment)

Language: English, fluent in German required due to customer/ stakeholder communication
Focus: Product Discovery, Growth, Mobile Apps, Sports / Football

About the role: We are looking for a Product Manager - Growth & Discovery (m/f/d) who can help shape and validate new product opportunities across our digital sports ecosystem.

This role goes beyond classical product management. You will act as a bridge between Product, Marketing, Business, Tech, Design, and external stakeholders, helping to turn complex ideas into clear concepts, validated opportunities, and actionable product initiatives.

The ideal candidate combines strong communication skills, analytical thinking, product intuition, and a genuine passion for football and digital consumer products.

⚽About CUJU

Make the Unseen seen! Our goal is to reinvent scouting in football and build the #1 global scouting platform for identifying and developing talent. With the help of modern AI technology, CUJU enables every young football talent to be seen – regardless of origin, gender, or social background. We create fair opportunities and transparent pathways into professional sports. Our platform connects athletes, clubs, and organizations worldwide to rethink scouting – data-driven, objective, and mobile. Together, we are shaping the next generation of global talent scouting.

Tasks

🚀Key Responsibilities

• Drive product discovery for new growth opportunities, features, user journeys, and business initiatives.
• Translate complex business, user, and technical topics into clear concepts, decision papers, and actionable next steps.
• Work closely with stakeholders across departments to align priorities, expectations, and product direction.
• Analyze user needs, market trends, business requirements, and product data to identify high-impact opportunities.
• Prioritize initiatives based on user value, business impact, feasibility, and strategic relevance.
• Prepare and present concepts, recommendations, and product proposals to internal stakeholders and leadership.
• Collaborate with UX/UI, engineering, marketing, and business teams to move ideas from discovery into delivery.
• Support growth initiatives around mobile app engagement, activation, retention, and user experience.
• Take ownership of topics independently, structure ambiguity, and drive progress with minimal guidance.
• Stay close to the football, sports, and digital product landscape to bring relevant insights into the product process.

Requirements

✅Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product management, product discovery, growth, digital strategy, or a similar role.
• Experience in a sports, football, mobile app, digital product, or consumer-facing environment, ideally with a background in sports tech, football platforms, fan engagement, scouting, fitness, or youth sports.
• Strong affinity for mobile apps, digital products, user journeys, consumer behavior, and mobile product performance.
• Experience with product discovery methods, user research, prototyping, experimentation, growth loops, app analytics, funnel analysis, retention metrics, and mobile product KPIs.
• Excellent conceptual skills, with the ability to quickly understand complex topics and get to the point.
• Strong analytical and prioritization skills, especially in discovery-heavy environments.
• High degree of ownership, self-initiative, and independent working style.
• Solid stakeholder management skills and confidence in presenting ideas, concepts, recommendations, and decision materials.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in agile environments.
• Ability to create clear product documentation, presentations, and decision materials.
• Genuine interest in football, sports, and talent development.
• Fluent German and English skills.

Benefits

💫Why Join CUJU

• Work at the intersection of sports and technology – with international clubs, partners, athletes, or influencers
• Work on a mobile-first platform that combines AI, design, and sports innovation
• Take ownership of the end-to-end design vision with real impact
• Collaborate with passionate, international professionals who value creativity, curiosity, and autonomy.
• Creative freedom & responsibility – actively shape processes, contribute your ideas, and make a real impact
• Short decision-making paths – direct communication, quick decisions, and close collaboration with management
• Personal development – individual learning opportunities and room to grow beyond yourself
• Team spirit & culture – a motivated international team, regular events, and a supportive environment
• Purpose & impact – build something together that transforms the world of sports
• 30-day vacation, competitive compensation, corporate benefits and more benefits about to come

🚀What Makes You Successful in This Role

You are successful if you can bring structure into unclear topics, ask the right questions, align different perspectives, and turn ideas into validated product opportunities. You do not wait for perfect instructions — you take ownership, clarify what matters, and move topics forward.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys discovery, strategic product thinking, stakeholder communication, and building digital sports products that users genuinely want to engage with.

⚽️ Is this your next big play?

• Are you passionate about sports, communicative, and eager to actively shape the future of sports? Then we look forward to your application!
• Send us your documents (CV and a motivation letter) directly via the application link.

An AI based technology which gives football talents the chance to improve their skills, compete against friends and the global CUJU community and get scouted by a record-proven network of international senior scouts and specialists. At any time, no matter who or where the talents are.

Latest AI technology evaluates, scores, and ranks each athlete in personal spiderwebs and the CUJU leaderboard. International pro players and top-class experts constantly develop new exercises and provide the talents with up-to-date information for the right lifestyle, which helps the talents to constantly improve.

Amateur clubs and football schools on each continent are already using CUJU providing coaches with data-based insights for measuring, improving and comparing their teams.