About the role
<h2>The role</h2> <p>Foundations Alliance s mission is to accelerate the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and highly available digital products at HelloFresh. We do this by providing services and platforms that improve our internal builders productivity and the reliability of our applications and our data.</p> <p>We re looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, and execution for our Operational Data Platform — the systems that create, transport, and store data at the point of origin, and makes it available to reach analytics or AI. You ll own a well-defined, high-leverage layer of our data ecosystem: the streaming and database infrastructure that product engineering teams rely on to get data flowing reliably from day one.</p> <p>Your core mission is to ensure operational data is created, delivered, and shared downstream reliably, cost-efficiently, and with the quality guarantees that everything downstream depends on — so the analytics layer receives quality data, ready to turn into governed assets. You ll define the roadmap for your squad s platform (event streaming, relational and NoSQL databases), partner closely with the Engineering Lead for the Operational Data Platform, and work cross-functionally with the data producer teams and the analytical teams consuming it.</p> <p>You ll join at a pivotal moment: your squad is essential for a cost-efficiency push and a reliability push on our critical-path systems — real, visible wins you can own from day one.</p> <h2>What you ll do</h2> <ul> <li>Own the product vision and roadmap for the Operational Data Platform — low-latency data creation, transport, storage, and availability for downstream analytics — partnering closely with the Engineering Lead for the platform.</li> <li>Drive your squad s cost-efficiency roadmap, owning cost savings as a core KPI.</li> <li>Own the reliability of critical-path systems — streaming and core databases — setting uptime targets and feeding incident learnings back into the roadmap.</li> <li>Champion data-contract and schema standards at the point of data creation, working with data-producing engineering teams to close adoption gaps, so higher-quality data flows downstream from day one.</li> <li>Guide tooling decisions as the platform evolves, consolidating around the right tool for the job rather than accumulating redundant options.</li> <li>Own the handover contract with the Analytical Data Platform, ensuring the data they receive is consistently trustworthy and ready for governance and certification.</li> <li>Act as the primary interface between the Operational Data Platform and the data producers, translating their needs into roadmap priorities.</li> <li>Define, track, and report your squad s KPIs (cost efficiency, critical-path reliability, data-quality adoption) against Foundations quarterly goals.</li> </ul> <h2>What you ll bring</h2> <ul> <li>Experience as a Product Manager with a solid grounding in data infrastructure, data engineering, or backend platforms — comfortable with streaming/messaging and database concepts.</li> <li>Working familiarity with event streaming and relational/NoSQL database technologies — enough to partner credibly with engineers on technical trade-offs.</li> <li>A track record of owning the roadmap and KPIs for a single team in a well-understood problem space, defining metrics like cost, reliability, or data quality and driving them to target.</li> <li>Comfort using data to inform prioritization and roadmap decisions, with a growing quantity/quality toolkit and openness to guidance from senior peers.</li> <li>Strong collaboration skills — you build trust and alignment with engineering leads and key stakeholders, backed by clear written and verbal communication.</li> <li>A pragmatic, execution-oriented approach — you drive day-to-day delivery with minimal guidance once direction is set, and you re comfortable navigating cost, reliability, and tech-debt trade-offs in a live production environment.</li> </ul> <h2>What we offer</h2> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Compensation & Financial Wellbeing</span></p> <ul> <li>You’ll receive a competitive salary package, including a HelloFresh-subsidized pension scheme.</li> <li>Enjoy savings on your weekly HelloFresh box.</li> <li>Save with discount schemes with corporate benefits and Vorteile.</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Health & Wellbeing</span></p> <ul> <li>Support your mental wellbeing with access to platforms like Headspace and Spill.</li> <li>Stay active with 24/7 office gym access, a discounted Urban Sports Club membership, and other wellbeing resources.</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Flexibility & Work-Life</span></p> <ul> <li>Balance your life with our flexible hybrid model.</li> <li>Recharge with sabbatical leave options in addition to standard time off.</li> <li>Get to work with ease through sustainable travel perks and transportation benefits.</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Career & Development</span></p> <ul> <li>Embrace "Learning Never Stops" with internal training, the HelloFresh Academy, and a dedicated budget for German language courses.</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Culture & Environment</span></p> <ul> <li>Enjoy tasty in-office meal deals and fresh food options.</li> <li>We support working families with parent-friendly policies, an in-office kids corner, and an on-site babysitter.</li> </ul> <p>#Product</p> Find Jobs in Germany on Arbeitnow