Deutsche Telekom’s Technology Delivery International (TDI) is the internal service delivery organization for National Operator Customers. Within TDI the Automation & Orchestration Platform (AOP) Tribe is looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager (TPM) to drive the strategy, delivery and adoption of Cloud Workload Automation & Orchestration domain.
Cloud Automation is a foundational capability for Deutsche Telekom’s and TDI’s strategy. Your work will directly support faster onboarding of workloads, reduced operational complexity, and higher reliability across TDI platforms, enabling TDI’s strategic goals like Radical Scale, Unbreakable Network, and Best Tech Team.
TPM plays a critical role in advancing the organization’s business objectives through efficient, high-quality product delivery. In this role the perfect candidate is a senior professional who can independently lead technical domain with strong ownership and accountability.
What you will do
Product Strategy & Vision
- Define and maintain the product vision and roadmap for cloud automation enabler areas, including orchestration frameworks, GitOps Automation, CI/CD tooling and Cloud Native transformation.
- Align strategy with stakeholders within and across TDI, including Group Technology, Telekom Deutschland (TDG) , and NatCos, focusing on cloud-native transformation and platformization.
User-Centric Backlog Ownership
- Gather user needs and pain points from NatCos, platform teams, and internal DevOps teams.
- Work closely with Product Owners to break down high-level EPICS into actionable User Stories with clear acceptance criteria and value proposition statements.
- Prioritize backlog items based on ROI, user needs and impact, technical feasibility and scalability.
Delivery & Enablement
- Collaborate with engineering and vendor teams to ensure timely delivery and technical excellence.
- Track and evaluate progress against defined success metrics
Stakeholder Collaboration & Leadership
- Serve as the technical and strategic SPOC for Cloud Automation across TDI and its internal and external stakeholders.
- Actively market existing solutions and product capabilities within TDI and NatCos to drive adoption and feedback loops.
- Coordinate with TDI’s OSS & Orchestration team to ensure smooth integration and end-to-end alignment.
- Drive reuse and shared frameworks in automation.
- Continuously engage with vendors to evaluate new developments and assess potential automation solutions.
Required knowledge and skills
- Proven experience in Technical Product Management, especially in cloud-native or automation domains
- Strong Cloud technology working knowledge of Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD and CNCF product and ecosystem.
- Ability to articulate product value, prioritize outcomes, and collaborate across diverse technical teams
- Highly developed sense of ownership and accountability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with solid written and verbal presentation skills (in English)
- Strong strategic strategic mindset with the ability to translate complex objectives into scalable, reusable solutions that drive adoption and long-term value.
We offer our people the best
- Smartphone: Choose your phone and get a compensation of up to 23,100 CZK every 3 years.
- Employee tariff: Use unlimited data, call and text for lower prices for private and business purposes.
- Yearly bonus: You can get a bonus of up to 15% of your annual fixed salary each year depending on the company’s success.
- T-Mobile discounts: Enjoy the 75% discount on 8 T-Mobile services for your family and friends.
- Partner discounts: Enjoy lower prices of products and services with our partners.
- Flexible hours: Adapt your work to your needs thanks to the home-office option (according to the agreement with the manager).
- Shares program Shares2You: Become a shareholder of the Deutsche Telekom Group and take advantage of the associated benefits.
- Rest and recreation: Relax with 6 weeks of holidays.
- MultiSport: Sport and relax with your loved ones thanks to the discounted MultiSport card.
- uLékaře.cz: Take care of your health with free online prevention and appointments with medical specialists for you and your whole family.
- Healthcare: Take care of your wellbeing with high-quality care for a discounted price with our contractual facility.
- Education and development: Broaden your horizons with our internal T-Univerzity offering a wide range of courses.
- Cafeteria: Choose from a wide range of benefits worth up to 15,000 CZK per year - sports and cultural services, health and beauty, transport allowances, holidays or language courses.
- Day for a good deed: You can devote one working day a year to volunteering in non-profit organizations and thus contribute to social responsibility together with us.
- Psychological consultations: Are you having troubles in your private or professional life? Share your burden anonymously via phone or online.
- Meal contribution: Enjoy a delicious meal with a work-day allowance of 123.90 CZK.
- Pension allowance: Get ready for your retirement with a pension allowance after 12 months with us.
Everyone is welcome to join us
Our employees feel that they have equal employment and career development opportunities with us, regardless of age, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, nationality, social and ethnic origin, political views, religion and world view. This makes us very happy. We are committed to continuous improvement and to creating a safe working environment for all.
What awaits you
- Has the job offer captured your interest? Fill in the application form and let us know about yourself.
- We will assess the information you send us and will get back to you under any circumstances.
- We will contact the chosen applicants and specify the details.
- A job interview is a two-way opportunity to get to know each other better.
- We will inform you about the result of the interview as soon as possible. Successful candidates will receive a job offer.
- In our company, according to our job architecture, you will perform the position of "Technical Product Manager“.
