Technical Product Manager

is Germany's largest vehicle marketplace, with more than 1.6 million listed cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and e-bikes. Both private customers and registered vehicle dealers use the platform and benefit from more than 120 million visits per month. As a "one-stop shop," 's offering includes not only buying and selling, but also financing and leasing solutions. Founded in 1996, the company is a subsidiary of Adevinta, a global leader in online classified portals.

Based in Berlin-Charlottenburg, we offer a dynamic environment where growth, learning, and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.If you are driven by an eagerness to disrupt, have a passion for collaboration, and are excited about shaping the future of mobility, we would love to hear from you.

is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

What we offer

Meaningful Work: We are a diverse, international, highly skilled and passionate team committed to a world where people share more and waste less. Every day you will have the opportunity to make a huge difference for our users, customers as well as shape the future.

Embracing AI: We're at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge AI technologies into our operations. Being part of you will work with and learn about AI tools, contributing to projects that leverage AI to enhance efficiency, improve customer experiences, and drive our mission forward. With an AI-first mindset, we foster a culture of continuous learning and experimentation, empowering our team to explore and apply AI in meaningful ways for the company and themselves.

Growth and Development: We are a global organisation who truly believes in growing our people. To support this we offer lots of development and training opportunities and provide a budget for our team members.

Connection and Inclusion: Our culture is the glue that holds us together. We believe in making meaningful connections and creating an inclusive atmosphere with lots of opportunities to connect both in your day to day work and through social team activities (online and offline)

About the role

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager (d/f/m) to join our Dealer Product Team organisation. In this role, you will take ownership of our central Vehicle Data API  —a complex, business-critical platform capability that powers key experiences and processes across

You'll work cross-functionally with engineering, design, business development, marketing, and sales to increase dealer and business value—by ensuring our vehicle data is reliable, scalable, and easy to consume for internal and external stakeholders.

This is a role for someone who's comfortable owning a technical product that isn't directly customer-facing, but forms the foundation for many customer-facing products.

• Own and evolve the vehicle taxonomy and attribute coverage (make/model/trim/options).

• Define and enforce data quality foundations for listing creation, including validation rules and quality thresholds. 

• Lead external vehicle data partnerships: requirements, data exchange specs, and contract/vendor management.

• Partner with engineering on data ingestion pipelines, validation routines, and operational quality controls.

• Evaluate AI/ML opportunities for automation of data enrichment

• Lead and empower a team of ~6 developers by providing direction, context, prioritization, and clarity.

• Take technical product ownership of ~40 artefacts that touch the core of the platform (e.g., APIs, schemas, data contracts, tooling, documentation, and supporting components).

• Translate business needs into technical roadmaps, maintain a clean backlog, and ensure reliable quarterly deliverables.

• Align and communicate across departments—ensuring shared understanding of priorities, constraints, dependencies, and trade-offs.

• Manage a broad stakeholder set by translating complex technical topics into clear, decision-ready language and translating business goals into actionable engineering work.

• Help shape the vision and roadmap for Vehicle Data - both product-wise and tech-wise—including modernization, scalability, reliability, and usability improvements.

• Solid experience as a Technical Product Manager in a platform, infrastructure, or API-heavy environment.

• Strong analytical skills—comfortable working with large datasets

• Experience with B2B / API products involving external vendors/partners and negotiating requirements or data contracts.

• Understanding of data integration patterns (REST APIs, batch imports, validation/quality checks).

• Strong ability to work with engineering teams on technical concepts such as APIs, service boundaries, data models, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Ability to create clarity in ambiguity: crisp problem framing, prioritisation, and decision-making under constraints.

• Strong communication skills—able to simplify complex technical topics without losing accuracy.

• Experience translating business goals into roadmaps, execution plans, and outcome-oriented delivery.

• Experience working with REST APIs and API lifecycle management (contracts, versioning, documentation, backwards compatibility, consumer-driven changes).

• Passion for automotive—or genuine curiosity and willingness to learn. Vehicle data is at the heart of what we do, and it helps if you enjoy the domain.

• Our business language is english, confidence in speaking german is a plus

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with VIN decoding and/or providers like DAT/JATO; experience applying AI/ML to enrichment/classification; background in marketplaces/automotive retail.

Working at comes with its perks Enjoy the following benefits (some of many):

• Rewards: competitive base salary and participation in the company's incentive programs.

• Plan for the Future: On top of the statutory retirement insurance, we offer a competitive company pension scheme.

• Team-Building: Regular team and company events offer the opportunity to network and learn from each other.

• Learning & Development: Keep growing with access to coaching, learning platforms and resources.

• Mobility: Stay mobile with a monthly transportation allowance.

• Enjoy working: Our well‑equipped office supports focused work and teamwork -  plus inviting social zones where colleagues can relax and connect

• Flexible working: a hybrid approach with the option to work abroad for a set number of days per year.

• Wellbeing: confidential employee assistance and support services available to employees and their immediate families.

• Family support:  enhanced parental leave and family‑friendly policies to support all parents and careers.