Technical Product Owner EMP (m/f/d)

Edri; Essen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Pension scheme

Training budget

Job summary

E.ON Drive Infrastructure in Essen, Germany seeks a Technical Product Owner to lead the technical product roadmap and align business needs with scalable architecture. You will guide an agile team, coordinate with IT architecture, and manage external partners to deliver reliable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions.

You will collaborate with Business Owners, Partnership Manager, and Product Designer to translate customer needs into prioritized backlog items, ensuring quality, security, and

Qualifications

• > Several years as Technical Product Owner or similar for digital products (payments or customer-facing platforms preferred).
• > Strong background in software development or architecture; able to discuss technical decisions with dev teams.
• > Experience with mobile apps, backend systems, APIs, and integrating external services; scaleable platforms.
• > Able to translate business needs into actionable roadmaps and deliverables.
• > Provided leadership to agile teams and collaborated with external partners.
• > Emphasize software quality, information security, and data protection early.
• > Familiar with AI-assisted development tools and assessing value/quality.
• > Clear communication of technical matters and accountability across teams.
• > Willingness to travel regularly within European markets.
• > Proficient English communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop the technical product roadmap and prioritize the backlog based on customer and business value.
• Translate commercial and operational requirements into implementation packages and acceptance criteria.
• Shape an architecture that supports objectives, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Provide functional leadership and plan realistic delivery increments in an autonomous, agile way.
• Oversee integration across app, backend, payment, CRM, IDs, and CPO interfaces.
• Support country rollouts with a reusable platform and local requirement delivery.
• Define quality, monitoring, and operational stability requirements with QA/DevOps.
• Manage external development partners while retaining critical internal knowledge.
• Establish AI-assisted development standards and accountability within the team.
• Track progress, risks, and balance feature development with platform debt.

Skills

Technical Product Owner

Software architecture

Mobile apps

APIs

Agile leadership

InfoSec

AI tools

Travel EU

English

Job description

Your mission

Purpose of the Position

You are responsible for the technical development of our international EMP platform. Together with the Business Owners, the Commercial Product & Partnership Manager and the Product Designer, you translate customer needs and business objectives into a prioritized product roadmap and a scalable technical architecture. You lead an agile team of internal specialists and external developers, setting clear product goals and priorities so that requirements become reliable, user-friendly solutions that can be operated cost-effectively.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop the technical product roadmap and prioritize the backlog based on customer and business value, dependencies, and effort
• Translate commercial and operational requirements into implementation packages, user stories, and verifiable acceptance criteria
• Together with your team and EDRI’s IT architecture functions, shape an architecture that supports product objectives, scalability, security, maintainability, and cost efficiency
• Provide functional leadership through clear goals and priorities, plan realistic delivery increments, and foster autonomous agile working
• Oversee the technical interplay of app, backend, payment, vehicle integrations, CRM, Customer Identity, and CPO interfaces
• Support country rollouts and ensure local requirements are delivered through a shared, reusable platform
• Together with QA, DevOps, and Operations, define requirements for quality, testability, monitoring, and operational stability
• Manage external development partners for scope, quality, and performance while retaining critical knowledge internally
• Together with the team, establish effective AI-assisted development with clear quality standards and accountability
• Make progress, risks, and technical actions transparent and balance feature development, platform development, and technical debt

Your profile

• You have several years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, or in a comparable role for digital products – preferably with payment or customer-facing platform
• You have a strong background in software development or software architecture and can assess technical decisions and discuss them with the development team
• You have experience with mobile applications, backend systems, APIs, and the integration of external services. You understand the requirements of scalable, reliably operable platforms
• You can prioritize diverse business and technical requirements and develop an actionable roadmap from them
• You have provided functional leadership to agile development teams and have experience collaborating with external development partners
• You regard software quality, information security, and data protection as integral parts of product development and involve the relevant specialist functions at an early stage
• You use AI-assisted development tools and can assess their use within the team in terms of productivity and quality
• You communicate technical matters clearly, make sound decisions, and create accountability across team and country boundaries
• You are willing to travel regularly within EDRI’s European markets to collaborate with country teams and partners
• You communicate confidently in English

Why us?

• People take centre stage: Become part of a dynamic, ambitious and agile team that develops solutions for the eMobility market and be part of our EDRI events
• With us, you get the best of both worlds - 100% start-up with the support of a large company
• The freedom you need: We offer you hybrid working with flexible working hours
• Workation: Enjoy the flexibility to work temporarily from abroad – within the EU
• You will receive a competitive salary with a performance-related bonus
• A company pension scheme is of course also one of the benefits with us
• Sustainable learning opportunities: We support you with a training budget of 5,000 euros per year
• You get everything you need to get started: onboarding with welcome gifts and all the hardware you need

Diversity counts at E.ON. We welcome all people and are convinced that differences make us stronger. Become part of our inclusive and diverse corporate culture! Seize the opportunity to become part of our E.ON Drive Infrastructure team and not only create prospects for the future of E.ON, but also for your own. We look forward to getting to know you!