Associate Product Manager

CareerOS is a B2B2C career platform serving 100+ top universities worldwide - including Oxford, INSEAD, London Business School, Georgetown, and Notre Dame. We help 500K+ users land jobs they love. We're a small, high-output team based in Barcelona, operating with American startup intensity - we ship fast, own our decisions, and push each other to do great work.

We work in small squads, each owning their own area of the product end-to-end.

We're looking for an
Associate Product Manager
who's analytical, user-obsessed, and excited to learn product craft in a fast-moving environment. You'll report to the CPO and our Head of Product, and work directly with engineering, design, customer success, and marketing.

What you'll actually do

You won't just write tickets. You'll shape how we build.

• Support feature delivery end-to-end
• From discovery to release. You'll write clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. You'll work side-by-side with engineers and designers to ship high-quality features.
• Talk to users constantly
• Join customer success calls, run user interviews, conduct usability sessions. You'll collect and synthesize feedback into clear product problems and opportunities.
• Help with product analytics
• Support defining events, building funnels, and tracking KPIs. You'll query data with SQL, help monitor feature adoption, and contribute to dashboards the leadership team uses.
• Communicate product changes
• Write release notes, coordinate with marketing on launches, help sales and CS understand new features. Clear communication is part of shipping.
• Work with AI tools daily
• We use LLMs for research, prototyping, documentation, and automation. You should be comfortable (or excited) working this way.

What we're looking for

Must-haves:

• 1-3 years in product, analytics, engineering, consulting, or similar
• You've done work that required structured thinking and shipping something real
• Strong SQL skills
• You can query product and user data yourself, not wait for someone else to pull it
• Comfortable with AI tools
• You already use LLMs in your workflow for research, writing, analysis, or automation
• Excellent communication
• You can turn ambiguous input into clear requirements and explain technical topics to non-technical people
• Fluent English
• Written and verbal; this is essential

Strong signals:

• You've worked at a startup before (and liked the pace)
• Can prototype ideas - low to mid-fidelity in Figma, or using modern tools like Lovable, v0, or similar
• Experience with product analytics tools like Mixpanel, Amplitude, or GA
• Exposure to B2B SaaS or marketplace products

What this role is NOT

Let's be honest about fit:

• Not a laid-back 9-to-5
• Startup doesn't mean less oversight and more flexibility. It means more ownership, higher stakes, and sometimes intense pushes. We respect personal time, but when we ship, we ship hard.
• Not remote
• This role is on-site in Barcelona. You'll work closely with the product team and need to be present.
• Not a "strategy only" role
• You'll do real work: writing specs, querying data, talking to users, coordinating releases. If you want to sit in meetings and make slides, this isn't the place.

What you get

• Competitive salary + stock options
• On-site role in Barcelona with a growing product team
• Report directly to the CPO (co-founder) - real mentorship and access to how product decisions get made at the top
• Meaningful ownership from day one - you'll own initiatives, not just tasks
• Hands-on exposure to AI-powered product development
• Clear growth path as we scale

How to apply

Send us:

1. Your CV
2. A brief note on a product or feature you helped ship (or a side project) - what was your role, what decisions did you make, and what did you learn?

We review every application.

Don't check every box but think you'd be great? Apply anyway. We care more about trajectory and curiosity than credentials.