What's the role?
In this role, you will be the driving force behind our requirements engineering processes. You'll collaborate with dynamic business units, innovative IT teams, and strategic external partners to ensure that requirements are precisely captured, expertly prioritized, and seamlessly implemented to meet our evolving business needs.
What does the role involve?
- Drive strategic stakeholder engagement to proactively identify, interpret, and anticipate evolving business needs, ensuring long-term alignment with organizational goals
- Define and advocate a cohesive, enterprise-wide vision for the requirements engineering discipline, embedding it as a core pillar of strategic project execution
- Develop and steer a forward-looking product and technology roadmap, ensuring synergy between user needs, market trends, and corporate objectives
- Lead the end-to-end requirements lifecycle—from discovery and modeling to validation and implementation—ensuring seamless integration across all strategic initiatives
- Monitor and evaluate project KPIs and performance metrics, using data-driven insights to optimize decision-making and enhance delivery outcomes
- Act as a strategic liaison across cross-functional teams, ensuring transparent communication, stakeholder alignment, and shared understanding of requirements across departments
- Champion Agile best practices at a strategic level, providing leadership in planning, iteration reviews, retrospectives, and continuous process improvement
- Own the strategic prioritization of the product backlog, balancing near-term business impacts with long-term innovation and transformation goals
- Enable enterprise-wide coordination, fostering alignment between business units, IT teams, and external partners to streamline execution and mitigate risks
- Embed excellence and consistency in requirements engineering, leveraging cutting-edge tools, frameworks, and methodologies to drive quality and innovation across deliverables
What you need is:
- Master's or Bachelor's degree combined with at least 10 years of relevant professional experience, or a strong track record in a comparable role within a similar development.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and self-reliantly with a high goal orientation
- Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role within requirements engineering
- Familiarity with Systems Engineering and knowledge of ASPICE is a plus
- Strong ability to manage diverse stakeholders and prioritize tasks effectively
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills — you're a natural collaborator and team player
- Hands-on experience with tools like Polarion X or IBM Jazz
- Knowledge of industry best practices in requirements engineering
- Proficient in English; German is a plus
Why should you apply?
Join a highly motivated, creative, and dedicated team, and bring your spirit of innovation to the table. As part of cross-functional project teams, you will shape the development of outstanding, reliable, and safe power tools that will excite our customers.
What do we offer?
We offer you a unique place to work, in which you are part of a creative and interdisciplinary team. We will give you a lot of responsibility to develop yourself and support you in shaping your individual career path.
In addition, we offer innovative and personalized benefits, such as:
- Internal mentoring program
- In-house fitness area with training courses
- Flexible working arrangements
- Mobile working (up to 50% of the monthly working hours)
- Subsidized monthly and annual public transport subscriptions
- Company pension scheme (employer-financed)
- Subsidy for childcare
- Summer holiday care for children
- Two impactful days to make a difference in the environment and society
Further benefits include support in relocating and finding accommodation, as well as tax advice.
The mission of the Hilti Group is "Making Construction Better," based on a passionate and inclusive team, as well as an employee and performance-oriented corporate culture. Integrity, courage, teamwork, and commitment are essential for Hilti — both today and tomorrow. We are proud to live our values every day.