Stellenbeschreibung
For our client we are looking for a Product Manager (f/m/d)
Start: 01.11.2025
Duration: 3 months, + wish for a long-term prolongation
Capacity: 80-100%
Location: 75% Remote, 25% Berlin (1 week Berlin / 3 weeks remote in rotation), up to 50% onsite in peak times
Language: English is a must, German is a plus
Project Description
The EDP team is developing an internal platform to support software product teams across Elia Group. The goal is to accelerate the creation and delivery of digital solutions that address the major challenges of the energy sector. The EDP Platform is a sovereign cloud-native, service-oriented solution that gives development teams self-service tools to build, run, and manage their applications more efficiently. It covers key areas such as infrastructure, data management, service lifecycle, build and delivery pipelines, and operational support—helping teams focus on creating impactful software rather than reinventing the basics.
Key Product Management Goals:
• Stakeholder alignment and coordination: Product Management facilitates ongoing communication and coordination among stakeholders, ensuring every product decision supports the broader organizational strategy.
• Specification and prioritization: Product Management collects and analyzes insights from development teams and stakeholders, transforming them into clear product specifications, documented features, and prioritized user stories— always focused on delivering maximum business value.
• Strategic product planning: Through rigorous scoping, requirement management, and driving precise specifications, Product Management guarantees that platform products create meaningful impact for both users and the organization.
• Valuedriven delivery: The ultimate objective of Product Management is to maximize business outcomes by establishing a compelling product vision, managing priorities transparently, and enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality, impactful products.
Objective:
Define and drive the Product Strategy and Portfolio for your product Tasks:
• Cooperation and alignment with Platform Product Management stakeholders for shaping a product strategy and portfolio aligned with overall program goals.
• Technical Coordination with EDP stakeholders across different domains to clarify dependencies and interfaces.
• Aligning of all contributors on the strategic direction and that priorities are consistently reflected in ongoing work.
• Monitoring interdependencies and provide documentation that captures the broader context for informed decisionmaking.
Develop and maintain Product and Release Specifications Tasks:
• Working with Platform Product Management stakeholders to define and iteratively refine comprehensive product and release specifications, capturing both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Reviewing specifications together with the Architecture to ensure compliance with architectural principles and technical standards.
• Guiding and overseeing the implementation of specifications, ensuring they align with customer requirements and deliver expected outcomes.
Manage Product Backlog and Documentation Tasks:
• Recording and maintain product features, requirements, and user stories using Jira and Confluence.
• Providing clarity to all stakeholders regarding objectives, scope, and expected outcomes.
• Documentation of interdependencies and context to enable structured, transparent, and coherent implementation.
Must-have experience
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or in Product Management with full accountability for defining and driving product strategy, roadmap, and backlog for technical products
• Extensive experience negotiating with diverse stakeholders to align on and achieve strategic objectives within complex organizational environments.
• Recognized as an expert in agile methodologies, with a proven experience in spring and quarterly planning
• Highly experienced with JIRA and Confluence as a power user, ensuring effective backlog management, documentation, and cross-team alignment
• Proven ability to deliver core Product Management artifacts (roadmaps, product specifications, feature backlogs, product descriptions, etc.)
• Experience in development of communication concept, for addressing and translating complex technical concepts into clear product requirements for both technical and non-technical stakeholders Must-have language skills:
• Fluent English (spoken and written, at least B2 level)
Preferred experience
• Familiarity with QA/test automation suites or Service Desk tooling, ideally with experience expanding product portfolios into these areas
• Broad technical understanding of cloud services from AWS, GCP, or Azure, including:
a Kubernetes
b Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
c Observability / Monitoring
• Experience in building large platforms