Technical Product Manager (Platform)

The Role

As our Technical Product Manager (Platform), you own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for YouTrain's shared technology platform, bringing together a growing portfolio of XR training products into one coherent and scalable ecosystem.

You drive the development of the central Control Board, where customers can activate, configure, and manage their products, as well as the shared platform services that power the entire product portfolio. Working closely with Engineering, product line teams, and customers, you define how individual products evolve into a unified platform, balancing technical architecture, customer needs, and long-term scalability. Your goal is to establish a robust platform that makes deploying, managing, and expanding YouTrain's training solutions simpler, more consistent, and more efficient.

What You'll Do

• Own the platform strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap, defining which capabilities belong in the shared platform and which remain product-specific.
• Drive the development of the central Control Board, enabling customers to activate, configure, and manage their YouTrain products through one unified interface.
• Define and prioritize shared platform capabilities, including user management, licensing, device management, and standardized training and evaluation services.
• Lead the migration of existing product lines onto the shared platform, defining migration paths and priorities while ensuring ongoing customer delivery.
• Work closely with Engineering and technical leadership to shape the platform architecture, interfaces, deployment models, and technical priorities.
• Drive standardization and configuration-based solutions across the product portfolio, reducing the need for customer-specific development and increasing scalability.
• Define deployment and operational requirements, including on-premise installation, offline operation, updates, and future secure-cloud readiness.
• Ensure a consistent user experience across products, working with Design and product line teams to establish shared UX standards and conduct usability testing.
• Align internal stakeholders and product teams around platform priorities, balancing shared platform development with individual product and customer requirements.
• Establish clear platform success metrics and maintain product documentation, roadmaps, integration guidelines, and release processes.

About You

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner, including at least 2 years of direct ownership of a platform product, product suite, or shared enterprise software platform.
• Proven track record of consolidating multiple products, modules, or systems into a shared platform, including defining the target architecture and driving real customer migrations.
• Strong technical understanding of software architecture, modular systems, APIs, integrations, identity and access management, and configuration management.
• Experience with enterprise software deployments, particularly on-premise or hybrid environments, including installation, updates, and operational requirements.
• Strong product management fundamentals, including strategy, roadmapping, discovery, prioritization, requirements management, and release planning.
• Experience working closely with Engineering and technical leadership on architectural decisions, technical debt, and platform development.
• Ability to balance the needs of multiple product teams and customers while maintaining a consistent platform strategy.
• Experience defining and tracking product or platform success metrics beyond delivery timelines.
• Excellent communication skills in German and English (C1 German strongly preferred).
• Willingness to travel occasionally for customer deployments, partner workshops, and internal meetings.
• Willingness to undergo a German security clearance (SÜG).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with XR products (VR/AR/MR), Unity-based applications, simulation platforms, real-time 3D, or hardware-software products.
• Experience with device management (MDM), certified IT environments, or security standards such as BSI or ISO 27001.
• Experience with identity and access management platforms such as Keycloak.
• Experience transitioning on-premise products toward secure or sovereign cloud offerings.
• Experience with training and learning platforms, including LMS, xAPI, assessment systems, or training analytics.
• Experience building and validating platforms together with hardware or technology partners.
• Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment with high ownership, limited resources, and complex technical challenges.

What We Offer

• Meaningful mission: your work improves the operational readiness of those who protect us.
• Modern office in central Hamburg with a hybrid work model (office & home office) and a Deutschlandticket.
• International team with colleagues across Germany, Ukraine, and other locations.
• Startup environment with real ownership, flat hierarchies, and fast decisions.
• Competitive compensation aligned with experience and responsibility.
• Top equipment including the latest XR hardware.
• Individual learning and growth opportunities beyond your role.