Mission
Role Overview
Responsibilities
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Planning & Release Cadence: Lead quarterly planning and release rhythms across the portfolio, ensuring teams align on priorities, capacity, and decision milestones.
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Risk & Dependency Management: Proactively identify, track, and resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and blockers to ensure on-time delivery.
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Cross-Functional Tradeoffs: Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and GTM leaders to evaluate tradeoffs, sequence work, and shape roadmap priorities.
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Operating Standards & Tooling: Define team rituals, documentation standards, and automated tooling/reporting to cut manual overhead and establish common practices.
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Portfolio Insights & Health: Synthesize customer signals, product metrics, and delivery health data into actionable reporting that drives continuous improvement.
Requirements
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Experience: 10+ years in product operations, technical program management, delivery leadership, or related technology roles (Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred).
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Delivery Cadence & Agile: Proven experience running planning and release cycles across multiple teams or value streams (e.g., Release Train Engineer), with deep knowledge of Agile lifecycles and launch operations.
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Risk & Dependency Management: Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies, capacity planning, delivery risks, and cross-functional expectations.
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Operational Excellence & Analytics: Strong analytical skills using delivery metrics and dashboards to solve problems, optimize workflows, and improve operating models.
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Influence & Communication: Exceptional facilitation and communication skills, with proven ability to influence without authority across product, engineering, and business partners.
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Domain & Languages: Passion for data science and analytics tools; fluent in English (German and relevant Agile/PMP certifications are a plus)
Leveling
About us
KNIME is an equal opportunity employer. We’re all about providing opportunities for different perspectives to come together, where everyone feels included no matter their background.
Director, Product and Engineering Operations (m/f/d) in Berlin Arbeitgeber: KNIME
KNIME ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern die Möglichkeit bietet, an einer hochmodernen AI- und Datenwissenschaftsplattform zu arbeiten. Mit einem starken Fokus auf Teamarbeit und persönlichem Wachstum in einer offenen, kollaborativen Kultur, profitieren Mitarbeiter von flexiblen Arbeitszeiten, hybriden Arbeitsmodellen und kontinuierlichen Lernmöglichkeiten. Die Büros in Berlin Kreuzberg bieten nicht nur eine inspirierende Arbeitsumgebung, sondern auch zahlreiche Annehmlichkeiten, die den Arbeitsalltag angenehm gestalten.
