Founding Product Lead – New Venture (m/f/d)

**Founding Product Lead – New Venture (m/f/d)** =============================================== As of now | Full-time employee | Professional/Experienced | Berlin (hybrid) | Germany **STRONG NETWORK. NEW VENTURE.** -------------------------------- Sovendus is Europe's leading brand partnership network. More than 3,000 European partner shopssuch as IKEA, HelloFresh and Samsung trust our e-commerce solutions to grow their business. Now we are building something new: a consumer venture, set up in Berlin as standalone team withreal independence. We start from day zero, but with an unfair head start: access to thousands ofpartner brands and millions of shoppers who already pass through our flows. Small founding team,start-up speed, and the backing of an established company. **YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES** ------------------------- * Own the product end to end, from first click-dummy to live product: discovery, UX, design, build and launch. * Ship fast and lean: MVPs, prototypes and fake-door tests, leveraging AI extensively without producing slop. * Talk to users constantly and turn what you learn into a product people want to come back to, including engagement mechanics like status, rewards and gamification. * Be the closest sparring partner of the Founder & Director of the new venture, shaping product strategy and roadmap together. * Define the KPIs that matter (activation, retention, conversion) and run experiments against them. * Lay the product and tech foundation and, as we grow, hire and lead engineers and designers. * Work with Sovendus' CRM, data and partner teams to plug the product into our existing distribution and brand network. **YOUR PROFILE** ---------------- * 4+ years of work experience, with a meaningful part in 0-to-1 settings, ideally as a founder or early employee of a start-up. * Consumer product background: B2C apps preferred over B2B SaaS. * End-to-end and hands-on product generalist: you write the spec, design the screens and prototype or build yourself. * Strong taste: you know the difference between a true love product and generic AI output. * Scrappy and open to change: comfortable with ambiguity and with changing direction when the data says so. * Strong work ethic and high ownership: you want to build something. * Fluent English; German is a significant plus. **Nice to have** * Experience with gamification, status or loyalty mechanics in an app context. * Background in memberships, subscriptions, deals or vouchers. * First experience leading engineers or designers. **MORE REASONS FOR SOVENDUS** ----------------------------- ##### **Hybrid Work** **Workation** **External Training** **30 Days of Annual Leave** **WHO WE ARE** -------------- **1 Team. 18 Nationalities. 50% Women & 50% Men. Hundreds of Opportunities!** Our story began in 2008 in Germany: Oliver Stoll founded the company "Gutschein-Connection". This marked the start of successful growth that has made us the leading network for vouchers and spec