Technical Product Owner & Project Lead (f/m/d)

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Technical Product Owner & Project Lead (f/m/d)

Location: Vienna
Employment: Full-time
Salary: EUR 70.000-90.000 gross/year
Start: ASAP

Why

We just won a major tender for our Unwired Edge Cloud and we're looking for the person to own it.

The Unwired Edge Cloud is a single, hardware-agnostic platform that solves the networking challenges of public transport. It orchestrates edge devices, networks, and applications in the cloud: device management, fast passenger Wi-Fi setup, flexible container virtualization, and secure, continuous vehicle-to-ground connectivity. In short, we bring modern network management and edge computing directly into vehicles.

You'll own this new engagement end-to-end: the customer relationship on the outside, product and delivery on the inside. Short decision paths, real ownership, and a strong engineering team behind you.

What you'll do

• Act as the structured, customer-facing Project Lead: own contract scope, budget, requirements and timelines, run customer meetings and reporting
• Act as Product Owner internally: translate customer needs into user stories, build and prioritize the backlog, maximize delivered value
• Coordinate delivery with the team leads in Delivery and DevOps; facilitate technical discussions and scope decisions (the technical leads make the architecture calls - you make sure the right things get built in the right order)
• Help us keep improving how we work across product and delivery

Must-haves

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Technical PM, or Project Lead in a software/cloud environment
• Strong project leadership: comfortable owning budget, timeline and contract scope toward customers
• Excellent stakeholder management and customer-facing communication
• Solid conceptual understanding of cloud-native infrastructure: Kubernetes ecosystem, Linux, networking fundamentals - enough to lead technical discussions, scope work credibly and translate between customers and engineers (you won't configure clusters yourself, but you need to genuinely understand them)
• Degree in CS/IT or equivalent hands-on background
• Excellent German and English, written and spoken

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on background in software development, CI/CD or secure development
• Experience in DevOps/edge/telco or transport/mobility domains

What we offer

• End-to-end ownership of a flagship engagement, with real influence on product and process
• A unique mix of product development, customer projects, and research initiatives
• Close collaboration with an experienced Development & Operations team and international customers
• A collegial, international team that's small enough to matter (25 people)
• Hybrid/remote flexibility, flat hierarchies, short decision paths, and plenty of room for your ideas
• Annual public transport pass for all of Vienna
• Home internet connection covered, including private use
• Company phone and a top-of-the-line laptop
• Regular after-work and company events - on us

About Unwired Networks GmbH

Unwired Networks GmbH assists clients in the transportation sector to enhance efficiency and passenger satisfaction through digital on-board networks and edge computing solutions.

Unwired Networks develops cloud-managed network and edge computing services, particularly for the transport sector. Our core expertise includes applications such as passenger Wi-Fi and on-board network management based on specialized hardware and modern cloud services. Unwired is a partner of leading European transportation companies in the railway and bus sectors, with locations in Vienna and Berlin.