Technical Product Manager | Document Translation Backend

DeepL is Germany's best-known AI company. We develop neural networks to help people work with language. With DeepL Translator, we have created the world's best machine translation system and made it available free of charge to everyone online. Over the next few years, we aim to make DeepL the world's leading language technology company.

Our goal is to overcome language barriers and bring cultures closer together.

What distinguishes us from other companies?

DeepL (formerly Linguee) was founded by developers and researchers. We focus on the development of new, exciting products, which is why we spend a lot of time actively researching the latest topics. We understand the challenges of developing new products and try to meet them with an agile and dynamic way of working. Our work culture is very open because we want our employees to feel comfortable. In our daily work we use modern technologies - not only to translate texts, but also to create the world's best dictionaries, and solve other language problems. When we tell people about DeepL as an employer, reactions are overwhelmingly positive. Maybe it's because they have enjoyed our services, or maybe they just want to get on board with our quest to break down language barriers and facilitate communication.

Your choice

We are constantly looking for outstanding employees! Currently we offer remote work in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Poland. Whether you would like to work from home in one of these countries or from one of our offices in Cologne, London, Amsterdam or Berlin: the choice is yours. No matter where you choose to work from, our way of working is designed to make you an essential part of the team.

What will you be doing at DeepL?

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to join our Document Translation team. The team is part of the Core Platform track at DeepL and has the mission to enable workflows extending beyond one-off text translation, by providing user facing teams with a scalable and easy-to-use platform.

With this team you have a chance to build the foundation for DeepL’s advanced AI capabilities. You will be working in close cooperation with customers, other product teams, and the Research team. You will own a key part of the customer journey, by defining and delivering a roadmap on a product with more than 100 million users.

Technical Product Managers at DeepL are regular members of the Product team, but with an additional level of software development expertise that makes it easier to excel while working with platform teams.

Requirements

Your responsibilities

• Define the mission, strategy and roadmap for one of DeepL’s critical platform teams involved in a number of initiatives that move us beyond just text translations.
• Cooperate with internal and external stakeholders to maximise the value offered by our platform.
• Lead a collaborative team process to translate user and business needs into development requirements that drive impact.
• Own the product lifecycle from discovery to launch and drive measurable business impact.
• Define metrics and KPIs to measure and report progress.
• Ensure the maximum Return on Investment for your team’s efforts.
• Communicate strategy, ideas and concepts clearly, aimed at the right audience, with the help of insight and data.
• Identify opportunities for new features and products that leverage the global scale of our user base and data.

What we offer

• Meaningful work at scale: We break down communication barriers worldwide and bring different cultures closer together.
• The opportunity to work on a product that more than 100 million people already use.
• Experience the excitement of a rapidly growing scale-up! Over the last year we doubled in size, hiring new colleagues across UK, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands.
• We’ve got your back! We are an experienced, highly committed team with transparent decision-making processes. We cherish collaboration and efficiency, but trust, empathy, inclusivity and an overall ‘human-first’ approach are just as important to us.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: with office hubs in Cologne, Berlin, London, and Amsterdam, you choose where and how you work. We offer remote working from UK/DE/NL/PL no strings attached, no ‘to be reviewed’- DeepL is a remote-positive company now and forever.
• Regular in-person team events - internationally.

About you

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager working with engineers (and preferably also design and user research) in an agile envi