Job Description

The Role: What to expect

Role Responsibilities: What you will do

• Define and continuously refine the product vision and strategy in close collaboration with internal & external stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer value.
• Translate strategic goals into clear, actionable product outcomes, including scalable and standardized partner integration capabilities (e.g. VDA5050-based interoperability).
• Own and maintain the product roadmap, balancing features, reliability, and technical health.
• Prioritize initiatives based on customer feedback, business impact, technical constraints, and market dynamics.
• Ensure partner robot enablement and integration scalability are consistently represented in roadmap decisions.
• Gather, clarify, and challenge requirements from customers, sales, deployment, and internal teams.
• Convert complex needs into well-structured epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria, including clear integration requirements, API behaviors, and protocol compliance expectations.
• Act as the primary interface between stakeholders and development teams.
• Support engineering teams with clear priorities, fast decisions, and pragmatic trade-offs.
• Work closely with developers and partners to troubleshoot integration issues, unblock technical challenges, and ensure successful end-to-end integration delivery.
• Act as a key point of contact for external robot partners, guiding them through the integration journey from initial alignment to production readiness.
• Support partners hands-on in achieving full integration with our fleet manager (e.g. VDA5050), including clarification of requirements, debugging, and validation.
• Identify recurring integration challenges and translate them into product improvements, tooling, and standardization efforts.
• Work with a wide range of stakeholders, including teams with a long product ownership history and external technical partners with varying levels of maturity.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role.
• Experience with robotics systems, hardware-software products, or complex technical products
• Solid technical foundation in software, systems engineering, robotics, or hardware-related domains.
• Strong ability to understand and discuss APIs, communication protocols, and system interactions, ideally in robotics or industrial environments.
• Experience working with external partners, system integrations, or interoperability standards.
• Comfortable operating in environments with high technical complexity and many stakeholders.
• Ability to work closely with developers and debug integration issues with partners in a hands-on manner.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with the ability to work independently and a passion for driving continuous improvement and excellence.
• Fluency in English is required, proficiency in German is a significant plus.

Why idealworks

• At idealworks, you will find an international working environment and become part of an experienced, open team where mutual trust counts. You will feel at home from the very first second!
• Experience a first-hand start-up feeling and flat hierarchies with varied and responsible tasks that you work on independently.
• Look forward to hybrid working model with 30 vacation days per year and various opportunities to balance your free time, family and job.
• For your commitment to helping us achieve our mission, you will not only be rewarded with appreciation, but also with above-average pay including a bonus scheme and an annual personal development budget.
• We offer exciting corporate benefits, an attractive company pension scheme and regular team events.
• Our modern office is easily accessible by public transport, bike and car and offers numerous catering options for relaxed lunch breaks with your team.
• Driven by our unique corporate culture, the five values "passion for results", "wellbeing", "personal growth", "trust" and "being and acting as one team" determine our daily actions and cooperation.