We’re looking for bright Platform Product Visionaries to join our team

As a Platform Product Visionary at Critical TechWorks, you are pivotal in driving the digital transformation of BMW's automotive platforms. This role blends the responsibilities of a traditional Product Owner with the expertise of a developer advocate. This role is perfect for those with a solid technical background and a passion for understanding and improving large-scale systems. Your organizational, communication, and analytical skills and a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure or automotive systems will be key to your success.

• Platform Vision and Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear vision for the platform, focusing on how it empowers and accelerates development across various teams.
• Developer-Centric Approach: Engage with developers and technical users to understand their needs, ensuring the platform enhances their productivity and satisfaction.
• Technical Collaboration: Work closely with technical teams, comprehending and advocating for the platform’s technical aspects, including CI/CD, middleware services, and system integration.
• Backlog Management and Prioritization: Handle backlog management by assessing value, developing cases, and ordering stories, epics, and themes, focusing on optimizing platform utility and efficiency.
• Dependency and Stakeholder Management: Navigate complex dependencies and manage stakeholder relationships in large-scale projects, ensuring smooth collaboration and communication.
• Agile Methodology and Systems Thinking: Apply agile methodologies and systems thinking to understand and improve large-scale systems, ensuring the platform aligns with overarching project goals.

The Product Visionary is our take on the classic Product Owner role. In many ways, though, it is quite unique. Check this page for more info.

Whatever you’re working on, here’s the lowdown on the technical skills you’re likely to have:

• 5 years of professional experience in software-related roles.
• Strategic Vison. Ability to develop and maintain a strategic product vision aligned with BMW Group's goals.
• Product Lifecycle Management. Experience in overseeing the product lifecycle from ideation to launch and beyond, including managing updates and iterations based on user feedback and data analysis.
• Leadership & Influence. Ability to lead without authority, influencing and aligning cross-functional teams and stakeholders around a common product goal.

• Data-Driven Decision Making. Competency in making informed product decisions based on data analysis, market trends, and competitive insights.
• Communication Excellence. Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex product strategies to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

CTW's Daily Toolkit

Apart from great technical skills, our environment is fast-paced and 100% agile, and prioritizes autonomy, teamwork, interaction and resilience. This means our Product Visionaries must also possess the following:

• Agile/Scrum: Embrace agile frameworks like Scrum, with regular sprint cycles, daily stand-ups, and iterative development.
• Backlog Management: Create and maintain a product backlog targeting the business needs and goals while supporting delivery excellence.
• Product Planning & Roadmap: Enable product planning short, medium and long-term and translate the results into roadmaps that support business goals.
• Product Quality: Proactive quality mindset by combining product vision, needs and usage to anticipate gaps, unseen behaviours and undiscovered features with the aim to deliver a high quality product.
• Deliver Enabler: Promote a high involvement with the development team, understanding their needs and challenges and supporting them in achieving their best on attaining the product business goals.
• Availability to travel abroad for short periods, as required.
• Excellent English oral and written skills
• German communication skills will be a plus

Who are we

Critical TechWorks seeks a distinct and treasured corporate culture, that is very much our own. This means:

• Growth and Innovation: Be a key player in shaping the future of mobility through innovative ideas.
• Engineering Excellence: Immerse yourself in an environment valuing engineering process, where we create, innovate, lead, and make a tangible impact.
• Autonomy and Collaboration: Thrive in a culture that blends autonomy with teamwork, contributing to groundbreaking developments.
• Continuous Learning: Embrace constant skill enhancement in a dynamic workplace, where your contributions impact cutting-edge technology projects.

Join Critical TechWorks on our journey of innovation, excellence, and redefining the future of motion, one product at a time.

Notice: Apply to only one job; our Talent Team will analyze your profile and consider you for all relevant positions.

At Critical Techworks we are creating an inclusive culture that values our people’s different viewpoints and experiences, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, age, color, ethnicity, religion, or disability.