About the Role
As Group Product Manager, you will take responsibility for a coherent product area within Products.Innovation.Experience. You will shape the Product Vision for your Area, consolidate roadmaps across multiple product components, and ensure that product decisions contribute to clear objectives, measurable customer value, and business impact. You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Design, Data, AI, and Business, provide direction for multiple Squads, and support other Product Managers through professional coaching, sparring, and prioritization. You lead through clarity, context, product understanding, and the ability to influence, combining strategic product decisions with close proximity to data, customer feedback, and execution.
Responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for the success of the Product Area and steering investments across multiple products to achieve the greatest possible customer value and business success.
- Preparing and driving strategic product decisions based on data, research, market understanding, and technological opportunities.
- Developing a clear Product Vision and strategic direction for your product area.
- Building and steering a consolidated Area Roadmap across multiple Squads, product components, and dependencies.
- Prioritizing the product portfolio within your Area with a focus on customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, and execution capability.
- Defining and steering Area OKRs as well as using product-related and technical KPIs to further develop your product area.
- Professional coaching, mentoring, and sparring of other Product Managers within your Area.
- Creating alignment between Product, Engineering, Design, Data, AI, Business, and relevant stakeholders.
- Managing dependencies, conflicting objectives, and delivery status across multiple Squads or initiatives.
- Responsibility for the successful scaling and further development of the product area, including cross-market rollouts and transformation initiatives.
- Challenging and simplifying existing processes where this helps move more quickly from planning to execution.
Requirements
- Several years of experience in Product Management for digital products, platforms, or technology-driven services.
- Experience in the strategic prioritization and management of product investments across multiple products, as well as in making well-founded decisions regarding their further development.
- Experience taking responsibility for a product domain, a Product Area, or several closely connected product components.
- A very strong understanding of how customer needs, data, technology, and business goals come together to create successful products.
- Experience developing Product Vision, roadmaps, OKRs, and prioritization approaches across multiple product streams.
- Ability to prepare and structure strategic product decisions and drive them forward together with relevant stakeholders.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or acting as a professional sparring partner for Product Managers or product-related roles.
- Strong technical affinity and enthusiasm for working with Engineering, Architecture, Data, and AI teams as an equal partner.
- Confidence in working with product-related and technical KPIs.
- Ability to structure complexity, create focus, and drive decisions forward even under uncertainty.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly convey product context, priorities, and decisions.
- A hands-on mindset: you remain close to the product, data, customer feedback, and execution.
- Experience in Telco, Consumer Tech, platform businesses, Apps, SaaS, Digital Commerce, or comparable environments is a plus.
- Very good English skills; German skills are an advantage depending on the role.
Skills
- Product Management
- Strategic prioritization
- Product investment management
- Product Vision development
- Roadmap development
- OKR development
- Prioritization approaches
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Sparring
- Technical affinity
- Data analysis
- Customer feedback analysis
- Execution management
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder management
- Dependency management
- KPI steering
Location
- Europe
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
About the Company
- At Deutsche Telekom, we shape digital products, services, and platforms that millions of customers across Europe use every day.
- In our Products.Innovation.Experience unit, we bring together Product Management, Engineering, Design, Data, and AI to make customer experiences simpler, smarter, and more relevant.
- In line with our “Products you LOVE every day” ambition, you will work on products with reach, relevance, and responsibility.
- You will shape digital experiences for millions of people and drive topics that are crucial to the future of one of Europe’s largest technology companies.
Equal Opportunity
- Applicants with severe disabilities will be given preferential consideration if equally qualified.
