Your Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term platform product vision and roadmap, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
• Oversee and manage both product infrastructure and overarching platform services
• Productize and create blueprints & processes around deployment & cloud hosting options including it’s SLAs, reporting, documentation for our global SaaS as well as our private cloud deployments
• Develop enterprise blueprints and professional services models for customer-specific requirements, balancing scalability with flexibility
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to ensure product execution is aligned with BAU necessities e.g. vulnerability, bug and incident management, roadmap priorities and long-term vision
• Partner with sales, solutions, and finance to create pricing models & materials for complex enterprise cases beyond standard packages
• Manage resource allocation and budgeting across platform product initiatives, ensuring effective use of team capacity and investment
• Lead and expand a team of technical and functional product owners
• Act as the senior product counterpart to the VP Platform Engineering, owning the “why” and “what” while engineering owns the “how”

Your Profile

• Significant experience in product leadership for SaaS platforms, ideally in high-scale or enterprise contexts
• Proven track record defining roadmaps, SLAs, deployment strategies, and enterprise-ready processes
• Strong technical understanding of microservices architectures, Kubernetes, databases, data lakes, BI/reporting, and APIs
• Experience working with high-throughput, low-latency systems (e.g., payments or other critical transaction-heavy industries)
• Skilled at bridging technical, customer, and commercial perspectives into clear product strategies
• Strong operational skills, with experience in developer efficiency, resource planning, and budget ownership
• Comfortable with product operations tools (e.g., Jira) and able to scale processes across teams
• Excellent communicator and stakeholder manager, able to align engineering, product, and go-to-market teams
• Fluent in English (German is a strong plus)