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Technical Product Manager
·Germany
HybridFull-timeProduct ManagementLogisticsRoboticsMechanical Engineering
Join a startup revolutionizing last-mile delivery with automated parcel infrastructure. As Technical Product Manager, you will drive the development of a multi-product platform, collaborating with industrial partners and leading European parcel carriers from concept to market success.
Responsibilities
- Act as the central interface to industrial partners across all products, managing joint roadmaps, technical development, and industrialization.
- Drive the platform-based development of new products, building on the existing foundation.
- Gather and translate requirements from leading parcel carriers into clear product specifications for internal teams and partners.
- Plan and oversee pilot programs, define KPIs with customers, and ensure successful market introduction.
- Support technical development and IT interfaces with customers and partners.
- Define cost targets and success metrics, tracking them throughout development and rollout.
- Monitor milestones, timelines, and deliverables, providing regular status updates to leadership.
Requirements
- Technical background in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, robotics, or industrial engineering, gained through a degree, PhD, or several years of professional experience.
- Affinity for IT and mechatronics, with an understanding of how mechanics, electronics, and software interact in complex products.
- Experience in developing and coordinating complex hardware products, ideally in close collaboration with suppliers and manufacturing partners.
- Structured, analytical, and hands-on working style.
- Strong communication and coordination skills, able to engage everyone from developers to customer executives.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, independence, and a desire to help shape a growing venture.
- Willingness to travel regularly to industrial partners and customers across Europe.
- Fluency in German and English.
Nice to have
- Residence in or willingness to relocate to the Cologne area.
Benefits
- Competitive fixed salary.
- Participation in company success through virtual stock options (VSOP).
- Direct access to all team members in a flat hierarchy where ideas are heard and decisions are made quickly.
- Responsibility from day one, managing your own topics and partners immediately.
- Flexible working with the option to work from home, ideally meeting 2-3 times per week in the Cologne office and lab.
- Steep learning curve at the intersection of robotics, AI, and logistics innovation with international partners.
- A meaningful product that makes last-mile delivery more efficient, automated, and sustainable.