Technical Product Manager (m/f/d) with a Focus on Platforms

<p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">At ARISE, responsibility is at the heart of everything we do.</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> Every day, we dedicate ourselves to realizing our clients’ visions and driving their digital projects to success. As a community of experts, we support each other and grow together to achieve exceptional results. Our sense of responsibility – toward our clients and our colleagues – defines our success.</span></p><p style=";"></p><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">ARISE with us and apply today as a Technical Product Manager (m/f/d) with a Focus on Platforms, in a permanent position</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">. This role can be performed remotely anywhere in Germany with regular on-site client engagements, approximately two days per week.</span></p><p style=";"></p><p><span style="color: #5a5f72">As part of this role, you will identify new business opportunities and win clients for ARISE. </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">You are passionate about developing customer relationships, thrive on opening new doors, and have the tenacity and resilience to turn prospects into long-term clients.</span></strong></p><p style=";"></p><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Role Trajectory:</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #5a5f72">This role is designed to be actively shaped and driven by the person in it. While the near-term focus is strongly centered on delivery, execution, and stabilising platform-level coherence under ongoing pressure, you are expected to deliberately push the role and the platform toward a more outcome-driven footing. This includes elevating operator experience, operability, and cost efficiency to first-class product concerns.</span></p><p style=";"></p><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Your Responsibilities:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> </span></p><p style=";;"></p><ul><li><p><span style="color: #5a5f72">You will take </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">end-to-end ownership for platform-level coherence across multiple product lines</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">, balancing short-term delivery demands with the long-term evolution of the platform toward usability, operability, and cost efficiency.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: #5a5f72">You will </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">represent Platform Operations as a primary customer persona and act as their main interface into product management</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">, shaping the end-to-end operational journey of the platform and translating operational, reliability, and cost-related needs into clear and actionable product priorities.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: #5a5f72">You will</span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> own platform level dependency management</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> by identifying, maintaining, and communicating functional dependencies across the product portfolio to enable reliable release planning, operational troubleshooting, and informed decision making.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: #5a5f72">You will </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">ensure a coherent platform experience across product lines</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> by critically reviewing roadmap scope, sequencing, and cross-product touch points for tenant-facing offerings and by actively preventing fragmentation and UX drift at platform level.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: #5a5f72">You will </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">provide strategic oversight and governance for customer-facing releases</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> by reviewing and signing off on product strategy, functional scope, and platform alignment across all releases within your area of responsibility.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: #5a5f72">You will </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">actively surface, resolve, and de-risk cross-product dependencies</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> by identifying unknowns early, unblocking teams, and ensuring consistent platform behavior and correct sequencing across planning and delivery. </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">You will do this while progressively shifting the role from execution-driven coordination toward strategic platform stewardship</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color: #5a5f72">You </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">will drive new business by identifying, engaging, and winning new clients</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> while building long-term customer relationships that support ARISE's continued growth.</span></p></li></ul><p style=";"></p><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Your Benefits:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> </span></p><p style=";"></p><ul><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Attractive compensation:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> We offer a competitive overall package consisting of an annual salary aligned with current market standards, plus an additional bonus package with further individual benefits.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Extensive development opportunities:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You’ll receive comprehensive onboarding and have access to exciting, hands-on learning modules through our </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">ARISE College</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">, where you can continuously expand your skills.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Modern company culture:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> We embrace flat hierarchies and a value-driven culture where people come first. Your opinion and your contribution truly matter to us.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Opportunities to shape and grow:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> Be part of our growth story and actively help shape the future of </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">ARISE</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">. Your ideas and commitment are welcome and appreciated.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Community and team spirit:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You’ll work with a team that is more than just colleagues – we are a community that supports, challenges, and inspires each other.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Flexibility:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> With a high degree of remote work, you can work from anywhere in Germany and organize your workday flexibly.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Investment in your future:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">ARISE</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> actively invests in your professional growth through trainings, workshops, and personal coaching. You can also look forward to annual </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">workations</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> in inspiring European destinations, regular </span><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">offsites</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">, and many other benefits that enrich both your professional and personal life.</span></p></li></ul><ul><li><p style=";"><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Professional Experience:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You bring several years of experience as a Senior Product Manager in platform, infrastructure, or technically complex product environments, with a proven ability to operate effectively under delivery pressure while shaping longer-term product direction.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Product Operations &amp; Execution Leadership: </span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">You have strong exposure to product operations and are comfortable working at the intersection of delivery, governance, and decision-making.</span></p></li><li><p style=";"><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Operational &amp; Operator-Centric Thinking: </span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">You deeply understand the needs of cloud platform operations and treat operators as a first-class customer persona. You are able to translate operational realities into sustainable, scalable product decisions.</span></p></li><li><p style=";"><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Cross-Product Perspective:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You are comfortable coordinating across multiple product lines and working with Product Owners to manage dependencies, align roadmaps, and ensure platform-level consistency. </span></p></li><li><p style=";"><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Technical Expertise:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You are technically fluent in modern cloud platform operations and have hands-on exposure to cloud-native, hybrid, or on-premise environments. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you can hold your own in discussions on operability, infrastructure trade-offs, and platform constraints.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">AI-First Product Mindset:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You approach product development with an AI-first mindset and understand how artificial intelligence can be embedded into products, workflows, and decision-making processes to create meaningful customer value. You are able to identify relevant AI use cases and translate them into practical, scalable product solutions.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Backend &amp; Cloud Expertise:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> A strong understanding of backend systems, cloud architectures, APIs, and distributed systems is essential. You are comfortable assessing technical dependencies, architectural trade-offs, and scalability requirements together with engineering teams.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Commercial &amp; Relationship-Building Skills:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You enjoy developing new client relationships and winning new business. You combine a consultative approach with persistence, resilience, and strong interpersonal skills to build lasting customer partnerships.</span></p></li><li><p style=";"><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Agile Mindset:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You are confident in applying Scrum or SAFe. You prioritize outcome over output and focus on continuous value delivery.</span></p></li><li><p style=";"><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Language Skills:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You communicate clearly and persuasively in English, both written and spoken. German is a plus.</span></p></li><li><p style=";"><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Values-Driven Approach:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> Loyalty, fairness, and empathy guide your actions. You strive for a balance between professional recognition and genuine human appreciation.</span></p></li><li><p style=";"><strong><span style="color: #5a5f72">Entrepreneurial Spirit:</span></strong><span style="color: #5a5f72"> You think in solutions, identify business opportunities, and act with an entrepreneurial mindset within the company.</span></p></li></ul><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>