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Senior Manager Product Strategy / Head of Product - Digital Lean Manufacturing (f/m/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Cologne/Hybrid
About ONIQ
ONIQ is a fast-paced and agile company, actively pursuing its mission to transform manufacturing for a sustainable and efficient future. Our software IQA combines deep expertise in production management and lean methodologies with state-of-the-art technology in AI, process mining, and data analytics. This enables us to support industrial customers in making their production processes more efficient and sustainable, helping them remain competitive in challenging times.

A highly motivated team defines ONIQ's entrepreneurial spirit; we take responsibility and are passionate about our mission and product. This, combined with a commitment to innovative and visionary thinking, has enabled ONIQ to create a whole new software category for lean and green manufacturing with our product IQA. Besides software, culture plays a fundamental role at ONIQ too. We are strongly committed to diversity and our company culture, fostering an environment of authenticity, integrity, and respect.
What you will do
In this cross-divisional function bridging the Product Management, Growth, and Customer Success Teams, you will spearhead our product strategy for our software IQA. Leveraging your profound expertise in production management and lean manufacturing, you will collaborate closely with the C-Level and founders to shape critical product strategies. As the Head of Product, your daily routine will be characterized by varied and diverse tasks, including the following:

  • Developing, steering and managing the product strategy and its implementation 

  • Identifying and evaluating new product features and strategic directions to ensure the continued growth and competitiveness of our IQA software

  • Sharpen the strategic direction of our software by continuously focusing on our USP, monitoring the competitive landscape, and keeping an eye on the latest trends and technologies

  • Taking ownership of the product backlog, designing and optimizing our product management processes, and ensuring that the product strategy is efficiently translated into our Scrum development process

  • Leverage your product expertise to actively support our customer facing teams in acquiring or onboarding new customers

What we expect from you
  • Enthusiasm, an entrepreneurial spirit and the ambition to take an active role in building a fast-growing startup
  • Several years of experience with SaaS product management
  • Experience in production management, lean manufacturing, or operational excellence is a bonus
  • Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to oversee, prioritize, and effectively balance a wide array of diverse and often competing requirements
  • Strong relationship-building skills, outgoing and communicative personality, ideally with an active, existing network in the industry
  • Ability to deeply understand our customers, interpret their requirements, and translate them into product features
  • Strong academic record and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering (preferably with a focus on production management), Computer Science or a related technical field
  • Willingness to occasionally travel for customer meetings or industry events
What we offer
  • We work differently - we highly value transparency, integrity and authenticity. We trust and respect each other, which leads to a very collaborative working environment where we ensure that everyone can contribute ideas and decisions are made based on competency.
  • We are agile and fast paced, you will have the opportunity to take on as much responsibility as you want to and go beyond your job description to push your personal and our progress. 
  • We truly care about work culture and make it a priority by regularly spending time reflecting on our teamwork, by actively committing work time to keep our strong team spirit and by incorporating activities into the workday to create balance.
  • We embrace diversity with our team encompassing team members from seven nationalities and over 40% female representation (with the clear ambition to reach 50%), including a female CEO among the founders.
  • We contribute to fighting climate change by helping our industrial manufacturing customers reduce their carbon emissions with our products, by being aware of our own environmental impact and by being carbon neutral as a company.
  • All other benefits that make work more pleasant like flexible hours, part-time options, possibility to work remote, regular team events and offsites, 30 days PTO, weekly yoga sessions etc.
How to apply
We'd love for you to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Please use our job portal for your application, we are looking forward to hearing from you! If you have any questions, please contact us at jobs@oniq.com.
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