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Operational Product Manager - Public Transport (all genders)

Public Transport
Vienna FREQUENTIS AG From now on Full time
Job Introduction
Frequentis Group with headquarters in Vienna is an international supplier of communication and information systems for control centres with safety-critical tasks. Worldwide, more than 500 customers in some 150 countries with more than 45,000 workstations already trust our know-how and proven experience. 

In the Public Transport business unit, we are facing a major technological transition from GSM‑R to FRMCS across all our European railway customers. Our Public Transport division enables and supports a smooth migration of existing solutions towards the new railway communication standard. In doing so, we – and you – contribute to the mobility of the future and to improving the environmental footprint of the transport sector (“Green Deal”).
Key Tasks
  • Strategic Implementation: Translation of the product strategy into a holistic product and lifecycle roadmap for the applications and system components of our Rail Dispatcher solution FTS 3020, as well as the derivation of concrete development, rollout and improvement measures. 

  • Project and Product Management: End‑to‑end responsibility for coordinating cross‑functional development, quality, safety, security and release activities, including cost, resource and backlog management across the entire product lifecycle. 

  • Operational Engineering & System Engineering: Active involvement in engineering activities together with the system engineers, including the planning, standardisation and documentation of installation, commissioning and rollout processes, as well as support for deployment and configuration automation (e.g. Ansible for structured YAML‑based configurations) to ensure quality, reproducibility and stable operations. 

  • Team Leadership: Functional and coordinative leadership of a virtual, interdisciplinary product development team and the dedicated system engineers, while fostering close collaboration between product management, development, delivery, procurement and logistics. 

  • Requirements & Stakeholder Management: Translation of product, customer and system requirements into implementable specifications and ensuring consistency between product vision, requirements and technical implementation; acting as the single point of contact for all product‑related topics. 

  • Communication & Collaboration: Transparent communication of the product and lifecycle roadmap to all relevant stakeholders and close, ongoing collaboration with the Strategic Product Manager.
Key Qualifications
Professional Qualifications 
  • Completed technical education or degree in IT, software engineering, systems engineering or information technology 
  • Several years of professional experience in technical project management and/or product management; experience as a Product Owner, technical project lead or in software development is an advantage 
  • Experience in an operational technical environment, particularly in close collaboration with system engineers 
  • Knowledge in the area of automation using tool environments such as Ansible or Semaphore (YAML‑based). Experience with tools such as JIRA, JAMA and Confluence, as well as agile methods (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, backlog management), is an advantage. 

Personal & Methodological Qualifications 
  • Strong customer, user and service orientation 
  • Very good communication and presentation skills 
  • Ability to explain complex technical topics in a clear and understandable way and to convince relevant stakeholders 
  • Ability to inspire and motivate virtual teams 
  • Fluent English skills and strong intercultural competence 
  • Structured, self‑driven and solution‑oriented working style 
  • Personal interest in continuous improvement
Our Values
Around 2,600 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.
Benefits

Working at Frequentis means making the world a safer place every day, long-term career opportunities and numerous benefits. These include a working time model based on trust, the option to work from home or remotely, a choice of IT equipment, a public transport ticket for the Vienna core zone or a reserved parking space, an allowance for meals in the office and reimbursement of expenses for working from home, the option to take a sabbatical, a comprehensive onboarding program and numerous programs for professional and personal development. You can find even MORE benefits on our career website.


Vertrauensarbeitszeit Betriebsrestaurant  Home Office  Smartphone Public transport subscription  Mentoring  Aus- und Weiterbildung  Fitness und Co 
TRUSTED OFFICE HOME OFFICE / MODERN PUBLIC TRANSPORT / MENTORING TRAININGS
 FITNESS /
WORKING HOURS RESTAURANT WORKATION IT-EQUIPMENT PARKING SPACE PROGRAM JOBRAD
Benefits

Working at Frequentis means making the world a safer place every day, long-term career opportunities and numerous benefits. These include a working time model based on trust, the option to work from home or remotely, a choice of IT equipment, a public transport ticket for the Vienna core zone or a reserved parking space, an allowance for meals in the office and reimbursement of expenses for working from home, the option to take a sabbatical, a comprehensive onboarding program and numerous programs for professional and personal development. You can find even MORE benefits on our career website.


Vertrauensarbeitszeit Betriebsrestaurant  Home Office  Smartphone Public transport subscription  Mentoring  Aus- und Weiterbildung  Fitness und Co 
TRUSTED OFFICE HOME OFFICE / MODERN PUBLIC TRANSPORT / MENTORING TRAININGS
 FITNESS /
WORKING HOURS RESTAURANT WORKATION IT-EQUIPMENT PARKING SPACE PROGRAM JOBRAD
Salary
The remuneration for this position consists of: The collective agreement minimum salary of EUR 46,202 gross per year (based on a 38.5 hour week) PLUS an overpayment in line with the market depending on your professional qualifications and experience. What else is important to you? We look forward to receiving questions from our future #ExpertsForASaferWorld.
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