Head of Product Development — Railway Tech (Hybrid, 60% Home Office)

Hitachi Rail Austria GmbH; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 86,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Public transport access

Flexible hours & home office

Holiday on Christmas/New Year’s Eve

Employee discounts

Training opportunities

Stable international employer

Job summary

Hitachi Rail Austria GmbH is seeking an experienced Head of Product Development for railway technology. You will lead an engineering organization across Austria, Hungary, and the Balkans, guiding development from legacy signaling to cloud-native platforms.

You will manage a 100+-strong team with diverse expertise, ensuring safety, quality, and customer focus while driving modernization and performance across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Several years of successful leadership in a large engineering organization.
• Proven ability to lead leaders, managers and multidisciplinary teams in an international environment.
• Strong people leadership with coaching and talent development experience.
• Experience managing organizational change, transformation and growth.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the product development and engineering strategy for the region.
• Lead, inspire, and develop a multicultural organization.
• Establish a high-performance engineering culture focused on quality and collaboration.
• Balance long-term product evolution with operational delivery commitments.
• Drive modernization across legacy and cloud-native architectures, with security considerations.
• Oversee budgeting, resource planning, and talent management.
• Foster collaboration with product management, operations, and customers.

Skills

Leadership

People leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Tools

Cloud platforms

Cybersecurity frameworks

Systems engineering

Job description

Hitachi Rail Austria GmbH is seeking an experienced Head of Product Development for railway technology. You will lead an engineering organization across Austria, Hungary, and the Balkans, guiding development from legacy signaling to cloud-native platforms.

You will manage a 100+-strong team with diverse expertise, ensuring safety, quality, and customer focus while driving modernization and performance across the portfolio.