Principal Product Manager, Asset Lifecycle & Management (m/w/x)

About Grover

Founded in 2015, Grover enables consumers and businesses across Europe to subscribe to tech devices and comprehensive technology solutions - from individual smartphones, laptops, and wearables to full corporate device setups. The company offers access to over 1,000 unique tech items on flexible and financially convenient terms. A pioneer of the circular economy, Grover refurbishes and recirculates devices to help eliminate e-waste.

To continue this incredible adventure, we are currently looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our talented Commercial team at our Berlin HQ (3 days per week).

Grover's profitability and scalability are not defined by a single transaction, but by maximizing the lifetime value (LTV) of every physical asset we own. In this role, you will serve as the chief architect of our core automated asset management platform. This is not a typical PM role. Your "product" is not a UI; it is the complex, API-driven, automated "brain" that governs the entire physical lifecycle of our multi-million euro asset portfolio. You will own the multi-year vision, autonomous system design, and hands-on execution for the platform that transforms our asset operations from a fragmented, manual landscape into a unified, intelligent, and automated system. Your first and most critical mission is to evolve our real-time-channeling engine from a V1 project into the profit-maximizing brain that dictates the "next best action" for every device we own.

🎯 What You Will Own & Build:

• Own the Asset Management Platform: You are the autonomous, single-threaded product owner for the systems and logic that manage our assets. You will own the multi-year roadmap for the asset management platform, aligning C-suite and engineering leaders around your strategy.

• Architect the "Channeling" Engine: This is your core mission. You will architect the automated, rules-based "brain" that governs our asset LTV. This platform will consume inputs from the Pricing and Portfolio Management teams to make the optimal, real-time "channeling" decision for every returned asset.

• Be the "API-as-a-Product" Leader for Logistics: You will be the primary product and systems partner for the Operational Logistics team. While they own the commercial relationship with our 3PLs (Ingram, UPS), you will own the technical "API-as-a-product" integration, the data contracts, and the systems logic that executes our business needs within their warehouses (e.g., WMS integrations).

• Partner with Engineering: You will work in a tight, strategic partnership with the Director of Engineering for Supply Chain. You will own the "what" and "why" (the product roadmap, the business logic, the success metrics), enabling them to own the "how" (the technical architecture, the team, the delivery).

• Be Extremely Hands-On: This is a "roll up your sleeves" role. You will operate with full data autonomy, personally diving deep (using SQL and other tools) to model complex business cases, validate your system's logic, and quantify the P&L impact of your platform's decisions.

• Execute Pragmatic "Brownfield" Migration: You will be the central product leader who navigates our complex "Buy vs. Build" ecosystem. You will make the hard, data-driven trade-offs to manage our legacy integrations (Navision, Softeon) while steering us toward a modern, scalable, and unified asset platform.

🤝 What You Bring:

We are hiring a systems-thinker first and foremost. We believe it is harder to teach world-class, abstract platform thinking than the other aspects of the job.

• You are a "Systems-First" PM: This is our most critical requirement. You are a true Principal-level product leader who sees the "product" as the entire end-to-end system. You have a proven ability to map, untangle, and re-architect deeply complex physical and digital processes.

• Relevant Experience (A Huge Plus): While your systems-thinking is the core, experience in e-commerce logistics, reverse logistics, supply chain automation, FinTech (e.g., building automated transaction engines), or physical asset management is a massive accelerator.

• You are "Hands-On" with Data: You don't just "use" data; you are self-sufficient. You have hands-on experience personally querying and modeling data (e.g., SQL, Python, or data tooling) to build your own business cases, validate your system's logic, and drive decisions.

• You Have an "API-as-a-Product" Mindset: Your primary "users" are other engineers and external partners. You know how to build and manage a robust, reliable, and well-documented API-first platform.

• You are an Automation & Data-Driven Leader: You are obsessed with transforming manual, human-in-the-loop operational processes into automated, rule-based services. You are highly analytical and comfortable defining complex logic for decision-making engines.

• You are a Pragmatic, Autonomous Executor: You have a history of thriving in "brownfield" environments. You are not intimidated by legacy systems. You can balance new development with migration realities and possess the autonomy to own a multi-year roadmap from C-suite buy-in to hands-on delivery.

• You Have Exceptional Communication & Presentation Skills: You communicate with clarity, structure, and influence - whether guiding engineers through complex system logic, presenting to executives, or aligning cross-functional partners. You can distill complexity into crisp narratives and drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

❤️‍🔥 What you will love about us:

• BVG monthly discount to drive you everywhere in Berlin

• Mental health support with Nilohealth

• 1 paid volunteering day per month

• Physical health support with Urban Sports Club

• Annual learning budget of 750€

• Exclusive Grover Tech discount for you & your loved ones

• Engaging, open office located in Berlin-Schöneberg with regular events, and is dog-friendly

• A diverse global team of 75 nationalities (and counting!) - genuinely the nicest group of colleagues who will soon become friends

Embark on a rewarding journey with the Grover Rocketship, where your impact is felt, and together, we cultivate a more circular world. 💚

We are looking forward to e-meeting you! 🚀