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The Product Manager role will own the end-to-end product strategy and execution for mdpi.com - a mission critical business asset, directly shaping MDPI’s commercial performance, reputation and operational efficiency. You will be accountable for evolving the platform into a best-in-class scholarly content platform, advancing discoverability, user engagement, AI integration, commercialization and platform performance / reliability. The role will maintain a compelling product strategy, translate business needs into user‑centric solutions and partner closely with product design, platform and AI engineering teams, editorial, marketing and operations to deliver measurable product outcomes.
Job Responsibility:
Own, articulate and communicate a clear product vision and outcome-driven strategy for mdpi.com
Define and maintain a prioritized product roadmap aligned with MDPI business objectives
Identify competitive gaps and opportunities through continuous market analysis and competition benchmarking
Establish success metrics (OKRs/KPIs) and use them to drive prioritization and trade-offs between value / impact, risk, technical feasibility and effort
Define core user segments and personas (authors, editors, readers, partners, general public)
Continuously research and map end-to-end user journeys and identify high-impact friction points
Lead structured discovery (research, usability testing, experiments) together with Product Design
Translate insights into well-framed problems, opportunities and testable hypotheses
Own backlog prioritization based on value / impact, risk and effort
Produce high-quality epics and user stories, with clear acceptance criteria
Partner closely with the solution / delivery and engineering teams to plan, scope and deliver predictably
Ensure strong standards across UX, accessibility, performance, documentation and quality
Drive improvements in content discovery, navigation and curation to increase content engagement and user retention
Partner with marketing, sales and support on launches, adoption and feedback loops
Shape features that support sustainable monetization and funnel optimization without compromising trust
Use quantitative and qualitative data to guide decisions and evaluate outcomes
Establish and run an experimentation cadence (A/B tests, iterations, learnings)
Explore and validate responsible AI-assisted capabilities for discovery, personalization and curation
Monitor and improve platform reliability, performance and content quality signals
Requirements:
University degree (preferably in Product Management, Computer Science, Business Management or Information Systems)
Product management experience, including ownership of a complex web platform
Proven track record delivering user-facing features at scale with measurable business impact
Experience with content-heavy, discovery-driven or marketplace-style platforms
Proficiency with Agile tools and workflows (e.g., Jira, road mapping, release planning)
Advanced knowledge of SEO, accessibility and web performance fundamentals
Working knowledge of data literacy (experimentation, A/B testing, metrics, telemetry, dashboards)
Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation across product, technical and business teams
Curious and continuously learning, particularly in AI-driven product evolution
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