EMP - Technical Product Owner EMP (w/m/d)

E.ON Drive Infrastructure GmbH

E.ON Drive Infrastructure (EDRI) is a pan-European market leading charge point operator owned by the E.ON group. EDRI builds, owns, and operates public charging infrastructure for all types of electric vehicles. The company purpose is to build a sustainable world, by providing charging for everyone, everywhere. The team currently employs more than 200 people and operates more than 9.000 public charging points across 11 European countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Together with location partners EDRI will expand its network by installing 1,000 additional high power charging points per year.

Location: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Job description
• Your mission

Purpose of the Position

You are responsible for the technical development of our international EMP platform. Together with the Business Owners, the Commercial Product & Partnership Manager and the Product Designer, you translate customer needs and business objectives into a prioritized product roadmap and a scalable technical architecture.

You lead an agile team of internal specialists and external developers, setting clear product goals and priorities so that requirements become reliable, user-friendly solutions that can be operated cost-effectively.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop the technical product roadmap and prioritize the backlog based on customer and business value, dependencies, and effort
• Translate commercial and operational requirements into implementation packages, user stories, and verifiable acceptance criteria
• Together with your team and EDRIs IT architecture functions, shape an architecture that supports product objectives, scalability, security, maintainability, and cost efficiency
• Provide functional leadership through clear goals and priorities, plan realistic delivery increments, and foster autonomous agile working
• Oversee the technical interplay of app, backend, payment, vehicle integrations, CRM, Customer Identity, and CPO interfaces
• Support country rollouts and ensure local requirements are delivered through a shared, reusable platform
• Together with QA, DevOps, and Operations, define requirements for quality, testability, monitoring, and operational stability
• Manage external development partners for scope, quality, and performance while retaining critical knowledge internally
• Together with the team, establish effective AI-assisted development with clear quality standards and accountability
• Make progress, risks, and technical actions transparent and balance feature development, platform development, and technical debt

Your profile

• You have several years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, or in a comparable role for digital products – preferably with payment or customer-facing platform
• You have a strong background in software development or software architecture and can assess technical decisions and discuss them with the development team
• You have experience with mobile applications, backend systems, APIs, and the integration of external services. You understand the requirements of scalable, reliably operable platforms
• You can prioritize diverse business and technical requirements and develop an actionable roadmap from them
• You have provided functional leadership to agile development teams and have experience collaborating with external development partners
• You regard software quality, information security, and data protection as integral parts of product development and involve the relevant specialist functions at an early stage
• You use AI-assisted development tools and can assess their use within the team in terms of productivity and quality
• You communicate technical matters clearly, make sound decisions, and create accountability across team and country boundaries
• You are willing to travel regularly within EDRIs European markets to collaborate with country teams and partners

You communicate confidently in English

• Why us?
• People take centre stage: Become part of a dynamic, ambitious and agile team that develops solutions for the eMobility market and be part of our EDRI events
• With us, you get the best of both worlds - 100% start-up with the support of a large company
• The freedom you need: We offer you hybrid working with flexible working hours
• Workation: Enjoy the flexibility to work temporarily from abroad – within the EU
• You will receive a competitive salary with a performance-related bonus
• A company pension scheme is of course also one of the benefits with us
• Sustainable learning opportunities: We support you with a training budget of 5,000 euros per year
• You get everything you need to get started: onboarding with welcome gifts and all the hardware you need

Contact

• Diversity counts at E.ON. We welcome all people and are convinced that differences make us stronger. Become part of our inclusive and diverse corporate culture!
• Seize the opportunity to become part of our E.ON Drive Infrastructure team and not only create prospects for the future of E.ON, but also for your own.
• We look forward to getting to know you!

Laura

Junior Recruiter

Do you have any questions or difficulties with your application? Please contact me at laura.ackermann@edri.com .

Inclusion

It is important to us to ensure that people with disabilities have a fair recruitment process in which they can demonstrate their best qualities. For this reason, our representative for people with severe disabilities is involved in the process at an early stage. Please let us know via the application form if you require any technical or organisational adjustments for the recruitment process. We will be happy to provide these.

If you are unable to apply online and would like to speak directly with someone, please contact the recruiter.

What else you should know

• Type of contract:
• Permanent contract
• Employment type:
• Full time
• Work Model:
• Hybrid
• Company:
• E.ON Drive Infrastructure GmbH

Job number

• M0239
• As long as the position is advertised on our careers page, we are looking for suitable candidates (f/m/d). We look forward to receiving your application!

Data protection

Additional information can be found here .