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In this role, you manage the product portfolio, continuously develop new features, and coordinate the implementation of product requirements in collaboration with development teams and departments.
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Your role in the team
- As an Operations Product Manager / Product Owner, you are responsible for the operational management and continuous development of a defined portfolio of ThinProcess families.
- You translate customer, market, and business requirements into prioritized product requirements and work with the relevant development and business teams to oversee their implementation.
- You report to the business unit management and work closely with Technical Sales, Engineering, strategic product management, and the international sales and service organizations.
- You are responsible for the functional prioritization of product improvements and change requests within the agreed product and development scope.
- You manage and further develop a defined product portfolio throughout the entire product lifecycle—from product maintenance and improvements to market launch and discontinuation.
- You gather, structure, and prioritize requirements from customers, Sales, Service, Development, Operations, and other stakeholders.
- You maintain and prioritize the product life cycle / product backlog in close coordination with development teams, strategic product management, and business departments.
- You coordinate product changes, product improvements, and new features—including alignment on their impact on quality, costs, delivery capability, service, and communication.
- You actively contribute to the product roadmap and bring insights from customer feedback, market monitoring, and technology and competitor analyses.
- You support product launches and go-to-market initiatives by coordinating the required product information, handovers, and change management processes with Sales, Service, Operations, and other stakeholders.
- You facilitate cross-functional alignment and ensure transparency around priorities, decisions, dependencies, and implementation progress.
- You track relevant metrics for the product portfolio and work with the specialist departments to derive improvement measures.
Our expectations of you
Education
- You have successfully completed a degree in engineering, physics, computer science, industrial engineering, or a comparable field.
Qualifications
- You are familiar with product lifecycle processes, such as product maintenance, change management, product launches, and product discontinuation.
- You have practical knowledge of S3 / R4 and use it confidently for master data, change, variant, or portfolio management.
- You communicate clearly and reliably with stakeholders at various specialist and management levels and can facilitate complex topics in a structured manner.
- You work analytically, independently, and with a solution-oriented mindset.
- You make decisions within your area of responsibility and consistently drive their implementation.
- You are willing to travel 20% domestically and internationally for customer visits, trade fairs, and conferences.
- You have an excellent command of German and English, both spoken and written.
Experience
- You have extensive professional experience in an industrial, technology-oriented environment—ideally in product management, systems engineering, project management, or product development.
- You have experience bringing together technical and business requirements and deriving clear priorities from them.
Benefits
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About your employer
ZEISS is a world-leading technology company that is active in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. In the last financial year, ZEISS generated sales revenues of more than 6.4 billion euros through its four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology and Consumer Markets (as at 30 September 2019).
- 50-249 Employees
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
- Industry, Production
Employer reviews
- Team culture
- 4.0
- Working conditions
- 4.6
- Career growth
- 3.6
- Engineering
- 2.7
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