Job Purpose
As a product lead at ZEISS Digital Partners, you will work in a supportive, team-oriented environment that enables the co-design and development of customer-centric digital products. We are looking for highly skilled & energetic individuals who can learn, excel, and help ZEISS to continue to maintain its leadership position in the market and effectively manage the various aspects of product development, ensuring a strategic, user-focused, and technically sound approach. Within the Data & Analytics team of our rapidly growing organization, you will help our business units to design, build, and maintain knowledge-based conversational systems.
Reporting Manager:
This an Individual Contributor role
Roles & Responsibilities
Strategic Planning and Vision:
- Assist in defining the vision and goals for the technical product, ensuring alignment with business strategy.
- Contribute to the development and execution of the product roadmap for SAP BI cross-platform functionalities, supporting business objectives and market trends.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely, budget-compliant delivery of product requirements, adhering to security and GDPR policies.
Product Development and Lifecycle Management:
- Help manage the product backlog, prioritizing features based on customer needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
- Gather and incorporate user and stakeholder feedback to drive continuous product improvement.
Technical Oversight and Continuous Improvement:
- Support the evaluation of new tools and technologies to drive innovation in data and knowledge management.
- Assist in market and user research to identify trends, needs, and opportunities for product enhancement.
- Provide input on Data Quality and Monitoring frameworks to support data consistency and optimization.
- Stay informed about industry trends to contribute to the platform strategy and roadmap, with a focus on Cloud solutions.
Education & Work Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Business, or related field.
- Should have 6-10 years of corporate experience, with at least 3 years of experience in product management or related field.
- Strong understanding of software development processes, including Agile methodologies
- Knowledge on architecture set-up for On-Premise and Cloud Platforms such as SAP BI/BW and SAC.
- Knowledge of BW/4HANA would be an added advantage.
- Passionate individual with strong communication and visualization skills to convince stakeholders of your ideas and align with them on complex technical decisions
- Experience with project & product management in an agile team setup (e.g., scrum) for development and deployment of data-driven solutions
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Fluent English, German skills a plus
Do you know your way around these? Then our team would love to hear from you!
About ZEISS Group:
ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. In the previous fiscal year, the ZEISS Group generated annual revenue totaling 10 billion euros in its four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology and Consumer Markets (status: 30 September 2023).
For its customers, ZEISS develops, produces and distributes highly innovative solutions for industrial metrology and quality assurance, microscopy solutions for the life sciences and materials research, and medical technology solutions for diagnostics and treatment in ophthalmology and microsurgery.
The name ZEISS is also synonymous with the world's leading lithography optics, which are used by the chip industry to manufacture semiconductor components. There is global demand for trendsetting ZEISS brand products such as eyeglass lenses, camera lenses and binoculars.
With a portfolio aligned with future growth areas like digitalization, healthcare and Smart Production and a strong brand, ZEISS is shaping the future of technology and constantly advancing the world of optics and related fields with its solutions. The company's significant, sustainable investments in research and development lay the foundation for the success and continued expansion of ZEISS' technology and market leadership. ZEISS invests 15 percent of its revenue in research and development – this high level of expenditure has a long tradition at ZEISS and is also an investment in the future.
With around 43,000 employees, ZEISS is active globally in almost 50 countries with around 30 production sites, 60 sales and service companies and 27 research and development facilities (status: 30 September 2023). Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. The Carl Zeiss Foundation, one of the largest foundations in Germany committed to the promotion of science, is the sole owner of the holding company, Carl Zeiss AG.
ZEISS in India
ZEISS in India is headquartered in Bengaluru and present in the fields of Industrial Quality Solutions, Research Microscopy Solutions, Medical Technology, Vision Care and Sports & Cine Optics.
ZEISS India has 3 production facilities, R&D center, Global IT services and about 40 Sales & Service offices in almost all Tier I and Tier II cities in India. With 2200+ employees and continued investments over 25 years in India, ZEISS’ success story in India is continuing at a rapid pace. Further information at ZEISS India ()