Technical Product Manager (d/f/m) (Berlin, Germany)

Technical Product Manager (d/f/m)

Company Overview

mobile.de is Germany’s largest vehicle marketplace, with more than 1.6 million listed cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and e-bikes. 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.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager (d/f/m) to join our Dealer Product Team organisation. In this role, you will take ownership of our central Vehicle Data API — a complex, business-critical platform capability that powers key experiences and processes across mobile.de. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, design, business development, marketing, and sales to increase dealer and mobile.de business value—by ensuring our vehicle data is reliable, scalable, and easy to consume for internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the vehicle taxonomy and attribute coverage (make/model/trim/options).
• Define and enforce data quality foundations for listing creation, including validation rules and quality thresholds.
• Lead external vehicle data partnerships: requirements, data exchange specs, and contract/vendor management.
• Partner with engineering on data ingestion pipelines, validation routines, and operational quality controls.
• Evaluate AI/ML opportunities for automation of data enrichment.
• Lead and empower a team of 6 developers by providing direction, context, prioritization, and clarity.
• Take technical product ownership of 40 artefacts that touch the core of the mobile.de platform (e.g., APIs, schemas, data contracts, tooling, documentation, and supporting components).
• Translate business needs into technical roadmaps, maintain a clean backlog, and ensure reliable quarterly deliverables.
• Align and communicate across departments—ensuring shared understanding of priorities, constraints, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Manage a broad stakeholder set by translating complex technical topics into clear, decision-ready language and translating business goals into actionable engineering work.
• Help shape the vision and roadmap for Vehicle Data - both product-wise and tech-wise—including modernization, scalability, reliability, and usability improvements.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Solid experience as a Technical Product Manager in a platform, infrastructure, or API-heavy environment.
• Strong analytical skills—comfortable working with large datasets.
• Experience with B2B / API products involving external vendors/partners and negotiating requirements or data contracts.
• Understanding of data integration patterns (REST APIs, batch imports, validation/quality checks).
• Strong ability to work with engineering teams on technical concepts such as APIs, service boundaries, data models, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Ability to create clarity in ambiguity: crisp problem framing, prioritisation, and decision-making under constraints.
• Strong communication skills—able to simplify complex technical topics without losing accuracy.
• Experience translating business goals into roadmaps, execution plans, and outcome-oriented delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with REST APIs and API lifecycle management (contracts, versioning, documentation, backwards compatibility, consumer-driven changes).
• Passion for automotive.
• Confidence in speaking German is a plus.
• Familiarity with VIN decoding and/or providers like DAT/JATO.
• Experience applying AI/ML to enrichment/classification.
• Background in marketplaces/automotive retail.

Location

Berlin, Germany

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive base salary and participation in the company’s incentive programs.
• Competitive company pension scheme.
• Regular team and company events.
• Access to coaching, learning platforms and resources.
• Monthly transportation allowance.
• Hybrid working model with the option to work abroad for a set number of days per year.
• Confidential employee assistance and support services.
• Enhanced parental leave and family‑friendly policies.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.