Trimble

Senior Engineering Manager

Germany - Remote Full time

Your Title: Senior Engineering Manager 

 Job Location: Europe Remote

Our Department: Transporeon

At Transporeon, a Trimble company, we focus on digitalizing and transforming transportation for all. Our Transportation Management Platform offers a diverse portfolio of freight applications serving all network participants. We achieved €150m in revenue before Trimble acquired us for $2 billion USD in 2022. As part of Trimble's Transportation & Logistics segment, we aim to create efficiencies in transport execution, positively impacting the economy, boosting business results, and benefiting the environment.

What You Will Do

Product Vision & Strategy: Define and relentlessly articulate a multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the MDM , ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and enterprise data governance standards.

End-to-End Ownership: 

  • Own the entire product lifecycle from ideation, discovery, design, development, and release to ongoing operations, quality, and deprecation. 

  • Drive the product design and functional specification, working closely with engineering team to ensure the platform architecture is scalable, resilient, secure, and performant.

Product Innovation & Future-Proofing : Actively integrate emerging technologies (e.g., AI/ML for data matching and quality, distributed ledger concepts, advanced APIs) to evolve the MDM service beyond current capabilities, ensuring the platform remains a competitive, best-in-class offering.

Team Leadership: Directly lead and manage a cross-functional team, including Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and Software Engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, accountability, and customer obsession.
Adoption, Evangelism, and Migration Strategy:

Develop and execute a robust internal adoption strategy, including governance models, clear documentation, training, and support.
Crucially, design and oversee the execution of a phased data migration strategy (from legacy sources to the new MDM) that rigorously prioritizes data quality, system integrity, and guarantees zero impact on mission-critical business continuity.
Quality & Operations: Define and monitor key operational metrics (SLOs/SLAs) for platform reliability, data quality, and uptime. Ensure a robust operational model is in place, including incident management and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Management: Manage communication and alignment with executive leadership, key business stakeholders, dependent product teams, and enterprise architecture groups.


 

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

  • 5+ years of experience in SaaS product management and software development

  • 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, ideally managing product managers and engineering teams.

  • Proven track record of shipping enterprise-level platform services (preferably API-first), especially in Identity & Access Management (IAM).

  • Demonstrated ability to synthesize market trends, customer needs, and technical feasibility into a compelling and differentiated platform offering, showing strong product intuition.

  • A strategic mindset with experience developing multi-year roadmaps that anticipate future needs and drive measurable business impact across a complex enterprise landscape.

  • Nice-to-have: experience in shipping enterprise-level platform services, and managing complex migration projects from legacy systems to new platforms with a focus on business continuity and data integrity.

  • Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and work across different functions.

  • Exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical and strategic concepts to both technical and executive audiences.


How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.


Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

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