Technical Product Manager - Checkout

METRO Digital Romania is the tech product-led company of METRO, the leading international specialist for wholesale and food trade. With longstanding experience in global wholesale, METRO.digital develops customized IT services and products worldwide for all METRO countries. Located in Germany and Romania, the METRO.digital employees are working continuously on one goal: digitalizing the wholesale industry.

Minimum of 2 years of experience in leading agile projects as a product manager or equivalent
Passionate about large scale distributed environments and open-source technologies
A good understanding of the tech stack and product life cycle
Knowledge and understanding of technical engineering best practices (e.g. test-driven development, continuous integration, etc.)
Experience with cloud-based technologies, edge computing and microservice architectures
Relevant security understanding: endpoint security, r.b.a.c, DevSecOps
Basic idea about (at least) one programming language
Contributor mindset, motivated by co-operation
Good time management, able to set up priorities and to monitor progress
Fluent in English both written and spoken


Product Management DNA @Metro.Digital:

Pragmatically building the product vision and roadmap
Use experimentation techniques to validate assumptions
Continuous discovery focus, user-centricity
Ability to build credibility in relationships with stakeholders and team members
Ability to act FAST! Relentlessly reduce the Cost of Delay
Prepared and willing to gracefully articulate a ‘No’ with the appropriate arguments
Be the expert on market trends & industry best practices
Maintain a critical perspective to drive revisions and extensions for existing products and solutions.
Data-driven - relies on metrics and concrete results to define success
Get the most out of the product team

That's why it's worth getting started: 

We are a great team, passionate and engaged that likes working remotely
We are building the future of retail – what we are developing today will become the future standard
You’ll have lots of opportunities to grow and develop yourself

Your product goal is to provide a continuous delivery experience that is ubiquitous regardless of whether teams are deploying to the public cloud, Metro’s internal data center, or 700 Metro store locations
Your product provides configuration management capabilities for thousands of highly distributed clients running the in-store checkout solution
Your product team handles the integration of checkout specific hardware devices from 25 countries
You will manage existing functionalities and roll out new features
You will monitor the usage of the solutions and establish needed actions
You will look for creative ideas and present them to users and stakeholders

Our general Benefits:

Work life-balance: flexible working time, work from home forever, celebrate your birthday with a free day
Personal growth: training in the area of soft, technical and business skills, free Bookster account, opportunity to learn and work with a variety of technologies
Well-being: online sports activities, fitness centers discounts, health and life insurance, private pension, lunch tickets
Working mode: multicultural, self-organizing teams, agile environment