Staff Technical Product Manager - Vehicle Data (d/f/m)

Working at mobile.de comes with its perks! Enjoy the following benefits (some of many):

• Rewards: competitive base salary and participation in the company’s incentive programs.

• Plan for the Future: On top of the statutory retirement insurance, we offer a competitive company pension scheme.

• Team-Building: Regular team and company events offer the opportunity to network and learn from each other.

• Learning & Development: Keep growing with access to coaching, learning platforms and resources.

• Mobility: Stay mobile with a monthly transportation allowance.

• Enjoy working: Our well‑equipped office supports focused work and teamwork -  plus inviting social zones where colleagues can relax and connect

• Flexible working: a hybrid approach with the option to work abroad for a set number of days per year.

• Wellbeing: confidential employee assistance and support services available to employees and their immediate families.

• Family support:  enhanced parental leave and family‑friendly policies to support all parents and careers.

Meaningful Work: We are a diverse, international, highly skilled and passionate team committed to a world where people share more and waste less. Every day you will have the opportunity to make a huge difference for our users, customers as well as shape the future.

Embracing AI: We're at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge AI technologies into our operations. Being part of mobile.de you will work with and learn about AI tools, contributing to projects that leverage AI to enhance efficiency, improve customer experiences, and drive our mission forward. With an AI-first mindset, we foster a culture of continuous learning and experimentation, empowering our team to explore and apply AI in meaningful ways for the company and themselves.

Growth and Development: We are a global organisation who truly believes in growing our people. To support this we offer lots of development and training opportunities and provide a budget for our team members.

Connection and Inclusion: Our culture is the glue that holds us together. We believe in making meaningful connections and creating an inclusive atmosphere with lots of opportunities to connect both in your day to day work and through social team activities (online and offline).

mobile.de is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

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• Own the multi-year vision and strategy for vehicle data as a platform capability — defining the future state across modernization, scalability, reliability, and usability, and building the case for the initiatives that get us there.
• Set the technical product direction that shapes the roadmaps of a ~6-person engineering team and the many teams that consume vehicle data. You'll provide the context, framing, and prioritization that gives them clarity.
• Define the standard for data quality across the platform: the validation rules, quality thresholds, and taxonomy (make/model/trim/options) that everything downstream depends on.
• Lead external vehicle data partnerships end to end — strategy, requirements, data exchange specifications, and contract/vendor management.
• Drive the strategy for automation and enrichment, including where AI/ML can meaningfully improve data coverage, classification, and quality.
• Shape the architecture direction with engineering — data ingestion pipelines, service boundaries, validation routines, and operational quality controls — bringing a clear point of view to technical trade-offs.
• Influence across the organisation —be the voice and evangelist of the team by translating complex technical topics into decision-ready language for senior leadership and turning business goals into actionable engineering work.
• Create clarity in ambiguity — clear problem framing, focused prioritization, and sound decision-making under real constraints.

mobile.de is Germany’s largest vehicle marketplace, with more than 1.6 million listed cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and e-bikes (annual average 2025). Both private customers and registered vehicle dealers use the platform and benefit from more than 140 million visits per month*. As a “one-stop shop,” mobile.de’s offering includes not only buying and selling, but also financing and leasing solutions. Founded in 1996, the company is a subsidiary of Adevinta, a global leader in online classified portals.

Based in Berlin-Charlottenburg, we offer a dynamic environment where growth, learning, and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.If you are driven by an eagerness to disrupt, have a passion for collaboration, and are excited about shaping the future of mobility, we would love to hear from you.

We're looking for a Staff Technical Product Manager (d/f/m) to set the vision and long-term strategy for vehicle data at mobile.de — one of the most business-critical platform capabilities we own.

Vehicle data is the foundation beneath nearly every experience on mobile.de: listing creation, search, pricing, dealer tooling, and the customer-facing products millions of buyers and sellers rely on. As Staff TPM, you'll define what this capability should become over the next several years and shape the technical and product decisions that get us there — modernization, scalability, reliability, and making our data effortless to consume for internal and external stakeholders.

As a senior individual contributor, you'll lead through influence by setting technical direction that shapes the roadmaps of multiple teams, aligning senior stakeholders across engineering, business development, marketing, and sales, and setting the standard for how mobile.de treats vehicle data end to end.

This is for someone who's energised by owning a technical product that isn't directly customer-facing but forms the foundation for many products and who wants to shape where it goes, with the mandate to make it happen.

• 8+ years of experience setting technical product strategy as a Staff Technical Product Manager in a platform, infrastructure, or API-heavy environment.
• Experience in item data or listing quality, catalogue taxonomy and applying AI/ML to data enrichment or classification.
• Ability to achieve outcomes through influence across engineering and business stakeholders, without formal authority.
• Deep analytical skills — comfortable working with large, complex datasets.
• Experience with B2B / API products involving external vendors and partners, including negotiating requirements and data contracts.
• Fluency in technical concepts — APIs, service boundaries, data models, data integration patterns (REST, batch imports, validation/quality checks), reliability, and operational excellence — enough to hold a credible point of view with engineers.
• Excellent communication — able to simplify complex technical topics for senior audiences without losing accuracy.
• Experience translating business goals into strategy, roadmaps, and outcome-oriented delivery.

• Experience with API lifecycle management — contracts, versioning, documentation, backwards compatibility, consumer-driven changes.
• Background in automotive retail.
• Passion for automotive — or genuine curiosity about the domain. Vehicle data is at the heart of what we do.
• Our business language is English; confidence in German is a plus.