AFC-Gruppe
Digital Loop GmbH
Senior Technical Product Manager (m/f/d)
About Digital Loop
Digital Loop is a Germany-based consulting and solutions company. We support business clients in identifying and addressing challenges in the areas of marketing technology, AI, SEO, and business intelligence.
We are convinced that the intersection of marketing and technology is the key to being innovative and achieving outstanding performance in a constantly changing business environment.
We develop customized, data-driven products that address the immediate needs of our clients while anticipating future challenges. This allows our clients to adapt seamlessly to any situation and achieve sustainable success.
Your Responsibilities
As a Senior Technical Product Manager (m/f/d), you will take responsibility for the implementation of our existing digital product roadmap and ensure the successful delivery of impactful digital products.
Furthermore, you will drive the continuous further development of the product in the next phase of product development. You will identify potential for improvement, shape future roadmap priorities, and continue to develop the digital product in line with customer needs, technical possibilities, and business goals.
As a strategic and technical contact person for clients and internal teams, you will translate complex business requirements into practical, valuable, and scalable solutions. You will combine a strong sense of product ownership with the necessary technical expertise to work closely with engineering, AI, and data teams. At the same time, you will take responsibility for budget calculation and monitoring throughout the entire product lifecycle.
This role is located at the intersection of product management and client solution delivery. It is an ideal fit for you if you are comfortable dealing with ambiguity, act confidently in client interactions, and understand the dynamics of a start-up environment. You are capable of leading cross-functional and multicultural teams to successfully deliver and expand digital products.
Main Tasks
Implementation and Delivery of the Product Roadmap
- Implement roadmap: Take responsibility for the implementation of the existing digital product roadmap and ensure the successful delivery of impactful digital products in line with agreed priorities, timelines, and quality expectations.
- Manage delivery process: Manage the daily product management process throughout the entire delivery lifecycle, from requirement clarification and planning to implementation, market launch, and iteration.
- Manage product backlog: Manage and prioritize the product backlog. Translate business requirements into clear epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable delivery plans.
- Make product decisions: Make informed product decisions throughout the implementation process, weighing customer expectations, technical feasibility, business goals, as well as resource and delivery constraints against each other.
- Allocate resources effectively: Ensure effective resource allocation across all product initiatives for timely and high-quality delivery.
- Assume budget responsibility: Take responsibility for budget calculation and monitoring throughout the entire product lifecycle. Ensure transparency as well as alignment between scope, effort, and available resources.
- Promote sustainable delivery: Contribute to sustainable product delivery by focusing on added value, implementation quality, and efficient resource utilization.
Product Development and Roadmap Creation
- Identify improvement opportunities: Identify opportunities for the improvement and further development of the digital product based on customer feedback, market developments, business priorities, and technical possibilities.
- Refine product vision: Contribute to the continuous refinement of the product vision, value proposition, and feature alignment so that the product delivers sustainable, measurable value.
Cross-functional Technical Collaboration
- Bridge between business and technology: Act as an interface between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring strong alignment between product goals and technical implementation.
- Close team collaboration: Work closely with engineering, AI, data, and UX teams to deliver robust and scalable digital product solutions.
- Contribute technical depth: Lead technical discussions with sufficient depth to support informed product decisions, evaluate options, and ensure feasibility.
- Support AI products: Support the delivery of AI-powered digital products with your solid understanding of topics such as system integrations, architecture, implementation constraints, and data-related dependencies.
Your Profile
Must-Haves
- Dynamic environment: Experience in fast-paced, constantly evolving, and ideally start-up environments. You can handle ambiguity, manage parallel initiatives, and drive progress in dynamic settings.
- Professional experience: At least 7 years of proven experience as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager with strong personal responsibility for digital products across roadmap implementation, delivery, and continuous product development.
- Complex tech products: Proven experience in the implementation of AI-powered, data-driven, or otherwise technically complex digital products or IT solutions.
- Technical understanding: Solid technical understanding and the ability to work closely with software developers and AI/data specialists – with sufficient expertise to make valuable contributions to technical discussions and solution decisions.
- Stakeholder management: Strong stakeholder management skills to align cross-functionally, manage trade-offs and shared resources, and convince decision-makers.
- Budget & resources: Experience with budget calculation, budget monitoring, and resource planning throughout the entire product lifecycle.
- Education: Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- Language skills: Business-fluent English (written and spoken) is required; very good German skills are a big plus.
Nice-to-haves
- Previous experience in a start-up or scale-up environment.
- Background in AI products, machine learning-based solutions, or intelligent automation.
- Experience in the areas of MarTech, digital platforms, enterprise software, or other technology-oriented consulting environments.
- Experience in product delivery in the field of customer and solution development.
- Familiarity with agile development methods and iterative product development in close collaboration with engineering teams.
- Familiarity with platform thinking, APIs, data ecosystems, and scalable, cloud-based product environments.
