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Build your career as a Product Manager
Projects where the product direction is yours: what gets discovered, what gets bet on and which metric judges every release. Shakers connects you with teams that arrive with a live product and a pending decision, not with a course to complete.
The Spanish PM lives on payroll or in a consultancy, with the title in English and the scope split across committees. The by-project direction route barely had a Spanish-language door: the generic marketplaces mix the role with any kind of management.
This is not a training route: it is what gets decided on a real engagement, what you must prove and where your territory ends.
- Higher-paying projects
- More continuity between projects
- Greater recognition for your experience
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Join ShakersWhat a Product Manager decides every week
A Product Manager is whoever decides what gets built and in which order: they listen to the market, prioritise, define the roadmap and measure the impact. Working by project they direct products per engagement, with no fixed payroll. Their boundary: the Product Owner manages the backlog of one specific team; the project manager organises the execution of the plan.
You decide what enters the sprint and what waits, which interview happens before betting and which metric judges the last release. You also decide what does not get done: a request that does not pass the evidence filter gets rejected with an argument, and stopping the extra feature is part of the engagement. The bet belongs to the business; the evidence that orders it is yours.
DiscoveryUser ResearchRoadmappingPrioritisationOKRProduct AnalyticsExperimentationA/B testingBacklogJobs to be DoneGo-to-marketProduct-Led Growth
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How Shakers works for talent
Create your profile
Tell us who you are, what you can do, the projects you want to work on and what your availability and rate are.
Get your certification
We certify your experience and your use of AI so companies understand and trust what you bring.
Match with projects
We connect you with well-paid projects that fit your expertise and your preferences.
Projects that live up to your expectations
Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.
Projects that fit you
Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.
Opportunities that come to you
Our AI matching connects your profile with the projects that fit your preferences.
You build. Shakers handles the rest
Set your own terms based on your seniority. We manage contracts, payments and paperwork.
What a Product Manager delivers on a Shakers project
The engagement arrives with the decision
The roadmap nobody decides, the feature that never takes off or the metric that does not exist: a direction problem, not a list of tools.
Bets with a verdict
Backlog reordered by impact, roadmap with metric and judgement date, and the discovery that holds it up: decisions the team can execute.
Data leads
Analytics that get read, interviews that count and experiments that decide: the tool is the one the product needs, not the one in fashion.
Counted decisions, not frameworks
Having decided with real consequences and knowing how to tell it: what you bet on, what you discarded, with which evidence and which metric judged it.
Deciding is also discarding
Choosing between the feature the client asks for and the debt that brakes the product. Sometimes not building wins, and defending it with data is the craft.
Where your engagement ends
You direct the what and the why; the how is the team's, the plan the project manager's. If the engagement crosses over, you say so and their row joins.
Frequently asked questions
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What does a contract Product Manager do?
They direct product per engagement: they discover what matters, decide what gets built, order the roadmap and measure the impact. One specific product, one period and a set of decisions, with no fixed payroll.
PM, PO or project manager?
The PM answers for the what and the why end to end; the PO for the backlog of a Scrum team; the project manager for the plan and the execution. The engagements here arrive with that boundary already written.
How much to charge as a contract Product Manager?
The mechanism marks it: scope of the discovery, phase of the product, dedication and whether go-to-market comes in. The budget closes per engagement; rates by the loose day do not describe this craft.
Do I need startup experience?
You need counted decisions with real consequences, from whichever sector: what you bet on, which evidence you had and which metric judged it. That is what Shakers certifies, not the logo on the CV.
Is there enough engagement volume in Spain?
The pool is the biggest of the neighbourhood: 2,613 active ads mention Product Manager, three times more than Product Owner (Shakers market analysis, n=31,957, September 2026). The by-project route is the one that was missing.
How do I join with no network of my own?
By getting certified: the process verifies your practice and the collective brings the engagements. Your job is showing decisions; connecting each project to your profile is ours.
The daily shape of the craft
The interview that invalidates a bet, the backlog that gets reordered by impact and the metrics review that decides whether the feature lives or dies. Between decisions, the invisible work: aligning business and team on what winning means.
The market titles you in English
The Spanish offer says Product Manager, and underneath hybrids of everything: PO, project manager, even marketing. Your title is English here too; your engagement, product direction end to end.
From opinion to evidence
The delivery gets told in bets with a verdict: what the discovery learned, which metric every release moved and what got discarded for not passing the filter. Without evidence there is no craft.
Who you share a product with
A product does not live alone: whoever builds, whoever measures and whoever guarantees quality cross your path in every engagement.
Full Stack Developer
Whoever turns the roadmap into product: when the direction is there and whoever builds end to end is missing, their row joins the engagement.
Data Analyst
The evidence that judges your bets: when the discovery needs analytics that get read and nobody serves them, their row puts them to decide.
AI Engineer
The builder of the current era: when the roadmap asks for agents or applied AI, their row raises what your strategy decides.
QA Engineer
The promise that holds: when every release risks the metric you get judged by, their row shields what gets delivered.
Frontend Developer
The face of the product: when activation never takes off and the pain lives in the interface, their row builds what your discovery designed.
Boundaries between these roles are agreed per project: the job title doesn't set them.
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Want to direct products that get measured?
Pass Shakers certification and choose which products get your judgement.
