Senior Technical Product Owner (all genders)

<h3>Your challenge</h3> As a <strong>Senior Technical Product Owner</strong> at <strong>Hubject</strong>, you will be central in managing the complexity of maintaining clean interfaces, ensuring compatibility, and minimizing disruption for our partners.<p>Your first tasks will involve leading the transition between protocol frameworks, defining scalable solutions that bridge legacy and future-facing implementations, and ensuring that our backend services and APIs remain robust, observable, and ready for partner integration—without compromising system performance or integration velocity.</p><p>You’ll be joining a <strong>cross-functional product development team of 6</strong> and will <strong>report directly to the Head of Product Development</strong>. </p><p>At Hubject, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. </p><br/> <h3>Why Hubject</h3> <p>We develop ideas and deliver solutions for the eMobility market<br/>We are working on the most important growth topics<br/>We are an international team of very motivated eMobility enthusiasts<br/>AND<br/>We have over 30 benefits different categories:<br/><ul><li>Food &amp; drinks (food subsidy on the Euref-Campus restaurants)</li><li>Mobility (BVG subsidy)</li><li>Health &amp; sports (Urban sports membership M)</li><li>Equipment (Laptop etc)</li><li>Learning and development (yearly training budget and Udemy learning platform access)</li><li>Hubject Lifestyle (Voiio membership)</li><li>Family-friendly environment (flex working time)</li></ul></p> <h3>Your Tasks</h3> <ul><li>Turn abstract specs and partner needs into sharp, dev-ready stories.</li><li>Drive the evolution of e-roaming protocols—<strong>OCPI, OICP</strong>, and what’s next.</li><li>Shape robust, scalable APIs that handle real-world chaos with elegance.</li><li>Collaborate closely with engineers to build systems that survive traffic, edge cases, and timezone madness.</li><li>Keep an eye on production—<strong>Grafana, Kibana &amp; co.</strong> are your daily tools.</li><li>Lead planning, grooming, and shipping with clarity and consistency.</li><li>Own the backend and API roadmap—laying the foundation for next-gen <strong>e-mobility</strong> services.</li></ul> <h3>Your Profile</h3> <ul><li>You’ve led tech products in complex, API-heavy environments.</li><li>You speak <strong>protocols</strong>—especially <strong>OCPI/OICP</strong>—and know how to make them work in production.</li><li>APIs are your thing—clean design, versioning, and great DX.</li><li>Logs and metrics guide your thinking—you follow signals, not opinions.</li><li>You think in edge cases—race conditions, retries, timeouts.</li><li>You work side by side with engineers and architects, not above them.</li><li>You've handled migrations, multi-version APIs, and cross-partner integrations.</li></ul> <h3>Language</h3> <p>Fluent in English</p> <h3>Start date</h3> <p>May 2025</p> <h3>Location</h3> <strong>Onsite</strong> in Berlin is preferred<br/>Hybrid system:<br/><ul><li>2 days per week at the office, 3 days remote</li><li>EUREF Campus in Schöneberg in Berlin - Europe's hotspot for green technology and eMobility</li></ul><strong>Remote work options</strong> are possible, however <strong>frequent traveling to Berlin</strong> will be necessary.