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Technical Product and R&d Owner (F/m/d)

Unwired Networks GmbH-Wien, Austria

Key Facts:

  • Role: Technical Product and R&D Owner (f/m/d)
  • Location: Vienna
  • Employment: Full-time
  • Salary: from € 80.000 gross/year
  • (higher compensation possible depending on qualifications and experience)_
  • Start: immediately or by individual arrangement

Your Role:
You will be responsible for the strategic development and coordination of our standard products as well as the implementation of customer-specific projects.

In this role, you will also support the technical and conceptual management of our ongoing research and development (R&D) projects.

Acting as a key interface between customers, internal development teams, and external project partners, you combine strong technical expertise with organizational and coordination skills.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Lead product management in the field of DevOps & Edge Cloud
  • Coordinate architecture and design decisions together with our technical leads
  • Manage customer projects: Requirements analysis, technical alignment, customer meetings, and reporting

  • Manage research projects: Work on technical implementation tasks for the development team and technical content and reporting for R&D research grants:

  • Report to funding authorities

  • Extend existing research projects
  • Guide funding authorities through project audits
  • Support internal teams with R&D funding questions
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of our internal DevOps processes

Your Profile:

  • This includes system level usage, configuration and experience
  • You will be expected to engage in technical discussions, understand system architecture, and determine their scope
  • Experience as a Product Owner, Project Manager, or Technical PM (ideally in a DevOps or cloud environment)
  • Excellent communication and customer-facing skills, proven stakeholder management experience
  • Language skills:Excellent German and English skills (verbal and written)
  • Preferred: Experience with software development (any language), CI/CD, secure development
  • Preferred: Experience with ML, AI or data driven pipelines
  • Preferred: Experience with Austrian national (FFG) or EU research projects
  • Preferred: Degree in computer science, information systems, or comparable practical experience

What we offer:

  • The opportunity to work on the most advanced edge cloud solution in the European railway and transport sector
  • Close collaboration with an experienced Development & Operations team and international customers
  • A unique mix of product development, customer projects, and research initiatives
  • Flat hierarchies, short decision-making paths, and plenty of room for your ideas
  • Attractive salary package (with willingness to overpay for experience and skills)

About us:
Unwired Networks is a leading provider of edge cloud solutions for the railway and transport sector.

With our Unwired Edge Cloud, we enable modern on-board networking, vehicle to ground connectivity, in-depth observability, and edge computing (virtualization, container orchestration) paired with modern DevOps practices in vehicles, creating the foundation for scalable, secure, and future-proof IT infrastructures in mobility.