Hybrid Technical Product Manager

at Vodafone

• Job title: Technical Product Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hungary

About the role

• Technical Product Manager leading time-critical B2B product development projects at Vodafone. Aligning customer needs with organizational capabilities and driving project execution across teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement time-sensitive and business-critical projects in alignment with agreed scope, quality, timelines, and budgets.
• Oversee local project budgets up to EUR 2 million, including planning, forecasting, and financial oversight.
• Deliver development projects in waterfall, agile, or hybrid models, using relevant demand-intake and fulfilment processes.
• Serve as the key interface between local commercial product management teams and cross-functional delivery units, collaborating with 10+ specialists across functions such as product management, customer operations, network engineering, IT design/development, security, and external partners.
• Act as a trusted consultant during concept phases to define realistic and feasible scopes that balance customer needs with organisational capabilities.
• Manage the full requirements and solution definition phase, ensuring consideration of functional, non-functional, security, SOX, legal, and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct user-centric testing aligned to customer journeys.
• Drive product lifecycle activities in partnership with commercial product managers, identifying optimisation opportunities and overseeing enhancements that improve functionality and customer experience.
• Manage local governance processes, including necessary approvals and compliance with product management frameworks.

Requirements

• At least three years of experience in project management, ideally within B2B product development.
• Hold a degree in engineering, computer science, business administration, or equivalent.
• Bring telecommunications knowledge, including B2B products and tariffs.
• Skilled in conceptual thinking, analytical reasoning, and strategic planning.
• Experienced in project management across waterfall, agile, and hybrid methodologies, covering risk management, budgeting, planning, and communication.
• Fluent in English (B2) and German (GER B2).

Benefits

• Cafeteria package
• Private Medical Services
• Employee Assistance Program to support your wellbeing and mental health
• Life and accident insurance
• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave
• Corporate assets including a laptop and mobile phone with One Business Mobile Superior subscription (unlimited voice, text message, and data within the EU)
• You can work remotely overseas for 20 days a year
• Discounts from partners