Technical Product Manager - Platform & Integration

Retarus; München; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Mobile working

Flexible working time

Remote work and flexible hours

Flat hierarchies

Professional development

Zusammenfassung

Retarus in Munich seeks a Technical Product Manager to lead Platform & Integration. You will own shared platform capabilities, APIs, gateway capabilities, and integration patterns to enable secure data management and cross-product connectivity across the portfolio.

Balancing strategic platform development with practical delivery, you will collaborate with Engineering, Security, Compliance, Operations, and Product teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions and standardize

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management in technical B2B/enterprise software, platform, integration, API, or cloud-based products.
• Expertise in platform and integration domains including APIs, gateways, identity and access management, data exchange, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong ability to translate complex technical dependencies into clear product requirements and scalable platform strategies.

Aufgaben

• Define vision, roadmap, and priorities for shared platform and integration capabilities.
• Translate business, customer, security, and compliance requirements into scalable product solutions.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Compliance, Operations, and Product teams to align platform decisions.
• Prioritize platform investments to increase reuse and reduce fragmentation across products.
• Establish standards for API usability, access models, and developer experience.
• Drive build vs. buy decisions, integration patterns, and extensibility frameworks.
• Support customer-facing integration initiatives by coordinating requirements and rollout plans.
• Monitor platform adoption, integration performance, and operational feedback to improve offering.
• Champion communication and stakeholder management for Platform and Integration.

Kenntnisse

Product Management

Platform & Integration

APIs

Stakeholder Management

German & English

Jobbeschreibung

Become Technical Product Manager (m/f/d) - Platform & Integration at Retarus.

Retarus is a worldwide provider of cloud-based messaging solutions at enterprise scale. We serve over 40% of the companies listed on the S&P Global 100, e.g. Adidas, Bayer, SAP, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, T-Systems, Swarovski & UPS, as well as governmental agencies and major players in markets across the world. Privately owned and founder-managed for over thirty years, Retarus is customer-oriented, stable, a fair employer, and a strategic business partner with a long-term vision. With some 500 employees in 19 offices on four continents, Retarus operates locally and thinks globally: our teams are organized across borders and are highly integrated. This makes Retarus a multicultural, multilingual, and engaging workplace. We are committed to creating a diverse and dynamic environment for our employees, with generous compensation, time off, and a global, collaborative workplace.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to lead our Platform & Integration Competence Center.

The Technical Product Manager – Platform & Integration owns the shared platform capabilities that enable secure data management, identity and access control, and scalable integrations across the product portfolio. The role ensures that products can connect reliably with each other and with customer or partner systems through standardized APIs, gateway capabilities, and integration patterns.

You will work at the intersection of Product, GTM, Architecture, and Engineering to ensure that our Platform and Integration capabilities are scalable, secure, and aligned with business and customer needs. You will define the direction for shared platform services, drive standardization across products, and help shape a consistent approach to integrations, access management, and data handling. In this role, you will balance strategic platform development with practical delivery needs, enabling both high-volume production use cases and customer-specific integration scenarios.

What we offer

• Mobile working and flexible working time
• Collaborative, diverse company culture and superior team spirit
• Remote work and flexible hours
• Flat hierarchies and a diverse, collaborative corporate culture
• Excellent opportunities for professional development and career growth
• International business and cross-office collaboration
• Modern, dog-friendly offices with free drinks and a wide selection of snacks
• Language courses, sports activities with our own health and fitness coach, team events, and much more...

What you'll do

• Define the vision, roadmap, and priorities for shared platform and integration capabilities.
• Translate business, customer, security, and compliance requirements into scalable product solutions.
• Work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Compliance, Operations, and Product teams to align shared platform decisions.
• Prioritize platform investments that increase reuse, reduce fragmentation, and improve time-to-integration across products.
• Establish common standards for API usability, access models, developer experience, and integration lifecycle management.
• Drive decisions on build vs. buy, integration patterns, and extensibility frameworks.
• Support customer-facing integration initiatives by coordinating requirements, dependencies, rollout plans, and stakeholder communication.
• Monitor platform adoption, integration performance, reliability, and operational feedback to continuously improve the offering.
• Champion communication and stakeholder management for Platform and Integration, ensuring transparent and regular updates on product status, roadmap decisions and upcoming releases.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, ideally in technical B2B / enterprise software, platform, integration, API, or cloud-based products.
• Proven expertise in platform and integration domains, including APIs, gateways, identity and access management, data exchange, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architectures and the ability to translate complex technical dependencies into clear product requirements, prioritization decisions, and scalable platform strategies.
• Experience working with shared platform capabilities that support multiple products, teams, and customer scenarios in a consistent and reusable way.
• Experience managing integrations with internal systems, customer environments, and third-party enterprise platforms.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Product, GTM, Architecture, Engineering, Security, and customer-facing teams.
• Hands-on mindset: you are comfortable diving into APIs, technical concepts, specifications, customer integration scenarios, and operational details.
• Strong analytical and structured thinking, with the ability to balance strategic platform evolution with practical delivery needs.
• Business-fluent (C1) German and English, both written and spoken.
• This role is Munich-based and requires at least three days per week in the office.

What you can expect

At Retarus, you will work on impactful and dynamic projects, with real opportunities to make a difference. Our customers are leaders across diverse industries, with constantly evolving needs and high expectations. You’ll be working with cutting-edge technology and great creative leeway to meet customers’ needs – and the projects you work on will be deployed globally. Working at Retarus, you will collaborate closely with convivial, culturally diverse teammates. You will grow professionally in a dynamic and exciting workplace and design impactful solutions in real time with top companies.

Very important

Come as you are. Retarus is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.

We’re looking forward to getting to know you!