We are seeking a highly experienced Product Manager to lead the direction and management for parts of our digital solutions portfolio. This role requires a visionary product leader with a strong background in managing complex projects, product strategy, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of customer needs, market trends, and agile product development, along with the ability to drive innovative solutions from concept to market launch.
Core Responsibilities
- Oversee multiple high-complexity projects, managing major parts of the value stream, portfolio, or multiple Epics;
- Lead the design and structuring of new business areas, products, and features.
Strategy & Portfolio Management
- Drive and coordinate key aspects of the digital solutions strategy, product portfolio, and roadmap;
- Ensure seamless integration of products within the overall digital solutions portfolio, aligning with other product managers for cohesive user experience and technical synergy;
- Manage Product Increment (PI) planning, ensuring readiness and prioritization of epics and features.
Exploration
- Generate insights through user interviews, data analysis, and market trends in collaboration with UX teams;
- Translate user needs into actionable insights and present them to stakeholders for alignment;
- Conduct market research and experiments to validate hypotheses and refine product concepts.
Product Definition
- Define value propositions, user journeys, and business models, ensuring alignment with market needs;
- Develop and manage product roadmaps, ensuring clarity on validation needs and stakeholder understanding;
- Lead the conceptualization of features, epics, and products, creating and communicating a clear product vision and strategy.
Product Development
- Ensure agile principles guide the product development process, focusing on iterative delivery and continuous improvement;
- Validate and adapt solutions throughout development, maintaining stakeholder alignment on priorities.
Delivery & Growth
- Oversee the go-to-market (GTM) process, ensuring all stakeholders are prepared for product launch;
- Support post-launch product performance by enabling customer support, sales, and marketing teams;
- Measure and validate the success of products from both customer and business perspectives and initiate further improvements.
This role is perfect for a strategic thinker and a hands-on product leader who can navigate complex challenges, foster innovation, and drive successful digital solutions from ideation to market success.
- Academic degree in Business, Engineering, IT, UX, or related field;
- About 5 years of experience as Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Developer, Product Designer or as HW/SW Engineer / Architect in digital products/services or comparable relevant experience;
- 3+ years of experience in agile project management;
- Think and act customer-centered;
- Application knowledge of Office365 and Jira;
- Proficient English language skills (written and spoken);
- Knowledge and understanding of digital services and technologies (preferred);
- Mentoring experience (preferred);
- Experience in working in diverse teams on a global level and in a matrix organization (is a plus);
- Willingness to travel up to 15% of the time (local and international).
- Responsibility and the possibility to actively shape the future of digital tire management;
- Possibility to work in a dynamic, international team in a global organization;
- Flexible working model (on-site and remote);
- Integration in a dynamic international work environment;
- Agile and collaborative workstyle;
- Continuous opportunities for the promotion of talent and training.
Ready to drive with Continental? Take the first step and fill in the online application.
