Product Owner - German speaking (f/m/d)
Introducing Thinkproject Platform
Pioneering a new era and offering a cohesive alternative to the fragmented landscape of construction software, Thinkproject seamlessly integrates the most extensive portfolio of mature solutions with an innovative platform, providing unparalleled features, integrations, user experiences, and synergies.
What We Do
By combining information management expertise and in‑depth knowledge of the building, infrastructure, and energy industries, Thinkproject empowers customers to efficiently deliver, operate, regenerate, and dispose of their built assets across their entire lifecycle through a Connected Data Ecosystem.
What Your Day Will Look Like
Mission : Define and support new services, features and usage concepts for the Asset and Work Manager suite, ensuring alignment with stakeholder requirements, regional market needs and global product strategy.
Main Responsibilities
- Product Liaison Between UK, Europe, MEA and New Zealand : Ensure that the global Product Manager, Product Owners, Engineering teams, and Delivery teams receive clear and timely product advice, updates, and priorities.
- Facilitate regular communication loops to ensure alignment with global product goals and roadmaps.
- Collaborate with UK Product Manager and the New Zealand Product Owners to ensure effective planning of activities for forthcoming sprints and quarterly planning process.
- Regional enablement for UK, EU and MEA : Enable Sales, Pre‑sales, and Services teams across the UK, Europe and MEA for Asset Manager, Handover and Work Manager.
- Coordinate with Thinkproject product managers, product owners, UX, architecture and engineering teams globally, including breakout sessions from quarterly planning.
- Coordinate the Ideas portal for AWM.
- Ensure AWM Aha! is updated at a feature, epic, and requirement level, including alignment to current AWM product goals and initiatives, and flagging dependency links to other product boards.
- Support Global Product Management : Support the UK Product Manager in defining features, refining requirements, and validating concepts.
- Participate in roadmap activities by capturing regional needs and ensuring they are communicated and understood at the global level.
- Assist with writing and refining documentation such as feature descriptions, technical notes, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure risks identified during development and planning are highlighted in Aha! and in quarterly planning artefacts.
- Product Advocacy & Championing : Act as the product champion within the region—promoting product understanding, strategy, and value.
- Help grow awareness and adoption of product best practices within teams and customers (where appropriate).
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure feedback loops are healthy, structured, and data‑driven.
- Development Coordination & Support : Support engineering teams by ensuring they have access to accurate business context, product requirements, and subject‑matter expertise.
- Help clarify scope and priorities during refinement, sprint planning, and delivery cycles.
- Coordinate local validation, testing, and acceptance activities, ensuring alignment with global product expectations.
- Documentation & Knowledge Alignment : Support the Academy team to create, update, and migrate AWM content.
- Maintain and contribute to local and global product documentation repositories.
- Write articles and case studies promoting the value of Asset and Work Manager.
- Help reverse‑engineer and document existing functionality where knowledge gaps exist locally.
- Support internal training, onboarding, and education activities relating to the product.
- Review German translations of English documentation.
- Design and deliver Asset and Work Manager training for internal audiences.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ domain experience in infrastructure, energy or vertical asset management.
- 5+ years’ experience with enterprise asset management software, gained in consultancy, product ownership or product management roles.
- Product owner/manager experience in agile software development.
- Experience with asset data modelling.
- Experience with system integration and APIs.
- Experience with data analysis and modelling.
- Use of product management software (e.g., Aha!).
Functional or Method Expertise
- Fluency in English and German.
- Recognised Product Owner certification.
- Requirements gathering, feature definition and user story creation.
- Familiarity with AI tools and agentic use case development.
- Business process modelling.
- Customer and stakeholder relationship management.
- Advisor to software development and product management teams.
Benefits and What We Offer
- Lunch ’n’ Learn Sessions, Women’s Network, LGBTQIA+ Network, Coffee Chat Roulette, Free English Lessons, Thinkproject Academy, Social Events, Volunteering Activities, Open Forum with Leadership Team (Tp Café), Hybrid working, Unlimited learning.