You will lead a core domain of our Product Platform and shape the foundation that multiple product teams build on every day. The platform provides shared capabilities, services, and APIs used across products, squads, and business-critical journeys. In this role, you turn platform complexity into leverage. You reduce duplication, improve reliability, and help teams ship faster by making shared capabilities easy to discover, easy to adopt, and hard to misuse. Your work will have direct impact on delivery speed, engineering quality, and the scalability of our product ecosystem.

This is not a feature-factory PM role. You will shape the platform layer that enables multiple teams to build faster, more consistently, and at higher quality. If you enjoy solving system-level problems, creating leverage for others, and operating at the intersection of product strategy and technical depth, this role gives you real scope and real impact.

We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our five essentials are the values that unite us and guide us in our commitment to freedom.

• own a strategic platform Squad end-to-end, from problem framing and product strategy to roadmap, execution, and measurable outcomes
• Partner closely with engineers and product squads to identify recurring pain points, integration friction, and scaling bottlenecks, and turn them into reusable platform capabilities and drive adoption of platform products through strong usability, clear interfaces, documentation, onboarding, and self-serve tooling
• align multiple teams and stakeholders around shared standards, priorities, dependencies, and rollout plans to enable consistent delivery
• work with engineering to define stable interfaces, lifecycle rules, versioning approaches, and deprecation paths that keep the ecosystem healthy over time
• build and improve golden paths that reduce time-to-integrate and help teams move faster with more confidence
• define and track the right success metrics, including adoption, reliability, platform usage, integration effort, and incident trends
• use AI pragmatically in discovery, decision-making, and execution to improve speed and quality where it creates real value
• write clear PRDs, decision documents, and stakeholder updates that create alignment, momentum, and clarity across teams

• 6+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex and technical product areas and strong experience in platform, infrastructure-adjacent, developer-facing, or similarly technical domains
• solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals including, service interactions, and common failure modes
• practical experience with API product thinking, including interface design, lifecycle management, versioning, and deprecation
• strong product judgment in prioritization, outcome focus, and trade-off decisions as well as proven ability to lead cross-functional execution across multiple teams in fast-moving environments
• excellent communication skills with the ability to create clarity across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders
• a pragmatic approach to AI, with a clear sense for where it drives meaningful value versus noise
• experience in experimentation, personalization, content platforms, subscription products, or large-scale analytics is a strong plus
• familiarity with platform operating models, reliability targets, and SLO-based thinking is a plus

• your personal growth is important to us: we offer trainings and learning lunches, tech conferences, a budget for workshops and much more to expand your knowledge and your skills
• flexible working hours support a healthy work-life balance
• our free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, we also offer a free lunch in our canteens
• 30 days vacation plus 10 days working from abroad
• free choice of top-notch office equipment (also for your remote work space and possibility of private usage), up-to-date hardware, software and modern office spaces that provide you with maximum flexibility
• collaboration thrives on direct exchange - we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
• from now a permanent full- or part-time position in a modern office in the heart of Berlin: http://www.axelspringer-neubau.de/ 

The most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faq

Diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/rsde