Technical Product Manager (m/f/d) - Platform & Integration

Become Technical Product Manager (m/f/d) - Platform & Integration at Retarus.

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Retarus is a worldwide provider of cloud-based messaging solutions at enterprise scale. We serve over 40% of the companies listed on the S&P Global 100, e.g. Adidas, Bayer, SAP, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, T-Systems, Swarovski & UPS, as well as governmental agencies and major players in markets across the world. Privately owned and founder-managed for over thirty years, Retarus is customer-oriented, stable, a fair employer, and a strategic business partner with a long-term vision. With some 500 employees in 19 offices on four continents, Retarus operates locally and thinks globally: our teams are organized across borders and are highly integrated. This makes Retarus a multicultural, multilingual, and engaging workplace. We are committed to creating a diverse and dynamic environment for our employees, with generous compensation, time off, and a global, collaborative workplace.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to lead our Platform & Integration Competence Center.

The Technical Product Manager – Platform & Integration owns the shared platform capabilities that enable secure data management, identity and access control, and scalable integrations across the product portfolio. The role ensures that products can connect reliably with each other and with customer or partner systems through standardized APIs, gateway capabilities, and integration patterns.

You will work at the intersection of Product, GTM, Architecture, and Engineering to ensure that our Platform and Integration capabilities are scalable, secure, and aligned with business and customer needs. You will define the direction for shared platform services, drive standardization across products, and help shape a consistent approach to integrations, access management, and data handling. In this role, you will balance strategic platform development with practical delivery needs, enabling both high-volume production use cases and customer-specific integration scenarios.

What we offer

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• Mobile working and flexible working time
• Collaborative, diverse company culture and superior team spirit
• Flat hierarchies and great feedback culture
• Development opportunities & career perspective
• International business & cross-site collaboration
• Modern, dog-friendly offices with nice amenities
• Company-paid health insurance, public transportation, lunch vouchers and further benefits

What you'll do

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• Define the vision, roadmap, and priorities for shared platform and integration capabilities.
• Translate business, customer, security, and compliance requirements into scalable product solutions.
• Work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Compliance, Operations, and Product teams to align shared platform decisions.
• Prioritize platform investments that increase reuse, reduce fragmentation, and improve time-to-integration across products.
• Establish common standards for API usability, access models, developer experience, and integration lifecycle management.
• Drive decisions on build vs. buy, integration patterns, and extensibility frameworks.
• Support customer-facing integration initiatives by coordinating requirements, dependencies, rollout plans, and stakeholder communication.
• Monitor platform adoption, integration performance, reliability, and operational feedback to continuously improve the offering.
• Champion communication and stakeholder management for Platform and Integration, ensuring transparent and regular updates on product status, roadmap decisions and upcoming releases.

What you'll need

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• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, ideally in technical B2B / enterprise software, platform, integration, API, or cloud-based produ