Why Nesto - why now?
Nesto builds workforce -management software for restaurants , where shift- based work demands more than office software adapted for frontline teams. Today, we help plan work for more than 100,000 employees across thousands of restaurants , including McDonald’s, L’Osteria and Lagardère. We are growing beyond scheduling and building an agentic system of action that can help restaurant groups plan shifts , flag risks and close gaps .
As Senior Product Manager for the HR Core System, you will shape the people , administration and payroll foundations behind this ambition . You will have direct ownership in a product area with much still to build , working closely with Engineering, Product Design, Customer Success and Support. We work honestly and take responsibility for mistakes . If you want to learn from real customer workflows and make evidence-based product decisions , you will find meaningful scope here .
Your responsibilities at Nesto
You own the HR and administration product area and help to shape its strategy as a core part of Nesto’s overall product strategy.
You run on-site discovery with HR teams , managers and employees including visits to customer restaurants , and distinguish one -off requests from core problems that affect many customers .
You own the problem-roadmap for the HR Core System and make trade-offs between customer needs, legal and collective-agreement requirements, technical complexity and commercial value explicit.
You work with Engineering and Product Design on data models , permissions , integrations and payroll interfaces and surface dependencies early , including where time data flows from workforce management into HR and payroll .
You define measurable outcomes before major investments including the telemetry needed to track progress and evaluate whether a solution delivers the intended value .
You analyse adoption and drop -offs after lau nc h and decide whether an initiative should be scaled , adapted or stopped .
Your background that sets you apart
You combine product ownership with the curiosity and technical judgement needed to make complex administrative workflows clear and valuable .
You bring 3 to 5 years of productmanagementexperience withclearownership of a defined area in a B2B SaaS environment.
Youhaveexperiencewith HR, payrollorcomparableregulated administrative processes throughyourworkor a substantial project.
Youunderstand end usersthroughdirectexposure to theirwork and canexplaintheirday-to-dayworkflows, constraints and priorities.
Youlearnnewdomains quickly askprecisequestions and break unclearproblemsintosmaller, solvable parts.
You canreadlaws and collectiveagreementswellenough to informproductdecisions and knowwhen to involve legal orpayrollexperts. You do not need to be a lawyer.
You bring practicaltechnicalunderstanding and candiscuss data models, APIs and integrationswithengineers. Youworkeffectivelywith AI-assisteddevelopmentworkflowswithoutneeding to write code.
Youhavedefinedproductoutcomes and evaluatedthemwithusage data such as funnels, adoptionpatterns and workflowcompletion.
Youcommunicatefluently in German and English withcustomers and cross-functionalcolleagues in writing and conversation.
Youmakeprogresswithincompleteorcontradictoryinformation and stateclearlywhatyouknow, whatyou do not know and whatneeds to bevalidated.
Optional advantages :
Youhavepracticalexperiencewithagenticor AI-assisted software development especially in discovery and refinement.
Youhaveworkedwith HR coresystems, payroll interfaces orrecruitingtools.
You bring experiencefromhospitality, restaurantsoranother shift-based, desklessworkforceenvironment.
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You established a clear strategy and problem.roadmap for the HR and administration area that makes priorities and critical trade-offs transparent.
Youbuilt a regular on-site discoverypractice with HR teams, managers and employees, and used the evidence to…