At Phrase, we help open the door to global business by providing the world’s most comprehensive localization platform.
We’re transforming language technology with our AI platform to give people the content they need, in the language they speak. Whether it’s for digital products like an app or website, marketing comms, legal literature, internal comms or customer service messaging, Phrase ensures that content always hits its mark by being on brand, consistent, and culturally resonant.
With a global team working from our offices in Hamburg and Prague—or from home across Europe, the UK, the US, and the APAC region—we help organizations like Uber, Shopify, Puma, Snowflake, Volkswagen and thousands of others engage their customers at scale to accelerate growth.
We’re looking for a seasoned Product Manager to drive our initiatives in High-Quality Machine Translation. You’ll shape and execute strategies that enhance our translation engines, assess and integrate third-party solutions, and optimize translation outcomes through intelligent pre- and post-processing. Quality as we see it goes beyond linguistic accuracy: The perfect translation creates content that resonates with audiences, helping our customers achieve their goals.
You’ll define impactful product initiatives clearly, setting ambitious but achievable success metrics. You’ll craft compelling narratives to demonstrate how these initiatives directly contribute to driving adoption and revenue growth.
This role offers the chance to work in an environment where honesty, transparency, and openness are highly valued. You’ll engage closely with diverse stakeholders, including C-level executives, who will offer perspectives and constructive challenges to sharpen your strategic thinking.
What you’ll be responsible for:
- Identify Impactful Initiatives: Identify and define product initiatives that drive adoption and revenue. Clearly articulate their purpose, success metrics, and strategic value.
- End-to-End Ownership: Guide your initiatives from inception through execution, partnering closely with engineering, research, design, marketing, sales, and customer success teams for development, rollout, and enablement.
- Customer-Centric Strategy: Balance strategic priorities with incoming customer requests, ensuring short-term wins and long-term strategic goals complement each other.
- Transparent Communication: Regularly communicate your roadmap and outcomes to senior stakeholders, fostering alignment and transparency.
- Innovation & Quality: Continuously explore opportunities to leverage new technologies, improve translation quality, and increase the effectiveness of automated workflows.
- Professional Growth: Stretch to new heights in an environment designed to help you hone your skills and pick up new ones, with managers and colleagues supporting you every step of the way.
What you need:
- Experienced in Product Management (5+ years), ideally with a background in translation technology, AI/ML solutions, or related fields.
- Skilled at developing clear success metrics, crafting persuasive narratives, and delivering impactful messaging.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects with cross-functional teams in a remote and globally distributed environment.
- Excellent communicator, able to confidently and transparently present to senior leadership and incorporate diverse feedback constructively.
- Strategically minded with the practical ability to balance immediate customer needs against long-term vision.
What you’ll get:
- Work experience in a successful and growing global SaaS company
- Be part of an international team of 300+ in Europe, APAC, and the Americas
- Expert colleagues in their field who are determined to build the best localization platform on the market, creating a world where language never limits opportunity
- Take part in a culture full of trust, support and loyalty, where respectful and open feedback is valued, and diversity is fully embraced
- A positive, open-minded, and innovative atmosphere
- Support in your professional development and personal career goals
What’s on top:
- 4 Company holidays additional to your regular holidays (1 day per quarter where the entire company is off to celebrate our achievements).
- In addition, the company also provides employees with a Christmas break to allow you to spend time with family and friends without use of your vacation allocation.
- Your birthday is off because it is important to celebrate you as well.
- 2 Giveback days where you can support the local community, volunteer, and/or participate in charity events and activities.
- Professional and extensive onboarding.
- Learning & development through Phrase learning and a dedicated ChatGPT Plus user license
- Additional local benefits depending on the entity you’re hired at, just ask your Talent Acquisition Partner
At Phrase we believe in the critical importance of diversity in all its forms and intersectionalities, and are committed to ensuring that the people we interview reflect this diversity. We therefore strongly encourage people of any identity to apply for our exciting career opportunities. We have taken an active decision to make our work environment inclusive every day, starting at the very beginning of your Phrase experience.
We value and welcome different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds as we believe that these differences make our team even stronger on our mission of opening the door to global business by giving everybody access to the content they need in the language they speak.