Senior Technical Product Manager

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>About Staffbase</strong></h3> <p>We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first <strong>AI-native Employee Experience Platform</strong>. Our<strong> industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels</strong> - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.</p> <p>Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 550+ employees supports 1,500+ customers—reaching over 14 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.<br>We are proud to be a&nbsp;<strong data-stringify-type="bold">Unicorn</strong>&nbsp;company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">At Staffbase, the search experience is one of the most strategically important problems we’re solving. Our stream is responsible for two deeply connected products: Hybrid Search — our next-generation search intelligence combining keyword and semantic search — and Navigator, the AI assistant that employees interact with directly.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We’re looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to own Hybrid Search end-to-end: from our upcoming GA release through the next stage of expansion into enterprise-grade, multi-platform search intelligence. This is one of the top initiatives in the company, with high visibility to senior leadership and a meaningful impact on how millions of frontline employees find the information they need — whether they’re at a desk or on the go as a nurse, technician, or field worker.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is a role for someone who finds depth and craft in growing and maturing a technically complex product, negotiating priorities with a senior engineering team, and continuously keeping the end user front and centre even when the work gets deeply technical.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What you’ll be doing</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Own the transition from GA release to the next phase — incorporating early customer feedback, defining what gets fixed vs. what gets expanded, and driving a clear prioritization call on roadmap direction</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Establish the right success metrics for search: balancing technical performance signals with genuine user value</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Work closely with the AI Assistant team to ensure search intelligence keeps pace with what the assistant surfaces</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Expand search coverage: video subtitle indexing, richer content types, deeper platform integrations (SharePoint, Confluence, and beyond)</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Build toward enterprise search: connecting Staffbase to the knowledge bases customers already use</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvet

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