The Role: What to expect

We are looking for a driven and experienced Product Owner to shape, evolve, and scale our core products across fleet management software and autonomous robotics platforms. Depending on business needs, the role may focus more on SaaS, robotics, or the intersection of both. As a Product Owner, you will own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog, working closely with engineering, commercial, teams, and customers to deliver impactful, customer-centric solutions in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.

Role Responsibilities: What you will do

• Define and continuously refine the product vision and strategy in close collaboration with internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer value.
• Translate strategic goals into clear, actionable product outcomes.
• Own and maintain the product roadmap, balancing features, reliability, and technical health.
• Prioritize initiatives based on customer feedback, business impact, technical constraints, and market dynamics.
• Gather, clarify, and challenge requirements from customers, sales, deployment, and internal teams.
• Convert complex needs into well-structured epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Act as the primary interface between stakeholders and development teams.
• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery while managing dependencies across software and hardware domains.
• Build trust, align expectations, and navigate constructive pushback with confidence and empathy.
• Stay informed on trends in fleet management, robotics, SaaS platforms, and industrial automation.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role.
• Experience with SaaS platforms, robotics systems, hardware-software products, or complex technical products.
• Ability to understand and discuss architecture, constraints, and trade-offs with engineering teams.
• Comfortable operating in environments with high technical complexity and many stakeholders.
• Solid technical foundation in software, systems engineering, robotics, or hardware-related domains.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with the ability to work independently and a passion for driving continuous improvement and excellence.
• Fluency in English is required, proficiency in German is a significant plus.

Why idealworks

• At idealworks, you will find an international working environment and become part of an experienced, open team where mutual trust counts. You will feel at home from the very first second!
• Experience a first-hand start-up feeling and flat hierarchies with varied and responsible tasks that you work on independently.
• Look forward to hybrid working model with 30 vacation days per year and various opportunities to balance your free time, family and job.
• For your commitment to helping us achieve our mission, you will not only be rewarded with appreciation, but also with above-average pay including a bonus scheme and an annual personal development budget.
• We offer exciting corporate benefits, an attractive company pension scheme and regular team events.
• Our modern office is easily accessible by public transport, bike and car and offers numerous catering options for relaxed lunch breaks with your team.
• Driven by our unique corporate culture, the five values "passion for results", "wellbeing", "personal growth", "trust" and "being and acting as one team" determine our daily actions and cooperation.

About us

As a forward-thinking deep tech company, idealworks has been enabling the future of logistics and industrial automation since November 2020. Its flexible, scalable robotics ecosystem, featuring the intelligent automation platform AnyFleet for seamless mobile robot integration, the CE-certified autonomous mobile robot (AMR) iw.hub, the simulation technology iw.sim, and the advanced robotics operating system iw.os, is reshaping intralogistics processes for companies globally. Emerging from its roots as a BMW Group spinoff, idealworks is committed to driving efficiency and operational optimization in a rapidly evolving automation landscape.