Technical Product Manager, Data & Configuration Management

Overview

Driven by the passion to improve the quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as a market leader in the hearing aid industry.

With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we aim to accelerate our business transformation to reach more people, more effectively.

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle of Customer Configurability within WSA.

The role will drive the evolution of our configuration ecosystem, ensuring scalable, future-ready solutions that support business growth, transformation, and seamless integration across platforms, systems, and tools.

What you will do

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Customer Configurability, aligning business objectives with technology capabilities.
• Drive the evolution of customer, product, and variant configuration capabilities to support scalable, cloud-based business solutions.
• Define and govern data models, taxonomies, variant structures, configuration rules, and integration standards across enterprise platforms.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year product roadmap, balancing business priorities, customer needs, and technical sustainability.
• Partner with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to translate strategic goals into impactful software solutions.
• Lead cross-functional product initiatives across global teams, ensuring alignment, transparency, and successful delivery of business value.
• Drive digital transformation through modern technologies, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Prioritize features and enhancements based on business value, strategic impact, and customer outcomes.
• Monitor product performance, define success metrics, and continuously optimize solutions to maximize adoption and business benefits.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap, and value realization to senior leadership and key stakeholders across the organization.

What you bring

• Master’s degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in configuration systems, software development, product management, or technical leadership roles.
• Proven experience defining and executing software product strategies and multi-year product roadmaps.
• Experience managing enterprise software products throughout the complete product lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of product data structures, variant logic, attribute frameworks, and complex configuration models.
• Knowledge of data governance principles, including data ownership, quality management, lineage, stewardship, and lifecycle processes.
• Experience in product data management, data governance, master data management (MDM), or systems integration roles.
• Strong experience working with distributed software development teams in agile environments.
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as ERP, CRM, PIM, MDM, PLM, configuration management, or related domains.
• Experience leading strategic initiatives involving system integration, cloud transformation, and digitalization.
• Demonstrated success influencing stakeholders across business, product, and engineering organizations.
• Personal competencies
• Strategic thinker with strong business and technical acumen.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage stakeholders from engineering teams to executive leadership.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills.
• Ability to balance short-term delivery objectives with long-term product strategy.
• Data-driven decision maker with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Comfortable operating in complex and ambiguous environments.

Passion for technology, innovation, software products, and AI-driven transformation.

• Strong collaboration skills across cultures, teams, and geographies.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all.

Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.

• Department: Research & Development
• Role: Software & Digital Solutions
• Locations: Erlangen, Germany
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