Director of Product Engineering (m/f/d)

PTV Group. Empowering mobility as part of Umovity.

You develop the people who build our products: Engineering Managers, engineers and QA. As part of the leadership team, you report to our Chief Product & Technology Officer and work closely with the leaders of Product Experience, Platform & Infrastructure and Data, as well as our Principal Architect.

Our product teams in Germany, Poland, Italy and Spain work in autonomous squads. You strengthen the people and structures that help them succeed: through strong leadership, fair career paths, thoughtful hiring and a strong engineering culture.

What you’ll do

• Coach our Engineering Managers as people leaders and squad owners, helping them build healthy, effective teams.
• Lead the Product Engineering chapter for software engineering and QA, with a shared career ladder, clear hiring standards, and fair performance and promotion processes.
• Build a shared engineering culture across our locations and support teams through change.
• Make sure every squad has a clear quality bar and trains its engineers to meet it. The Principal Architect owns architecture and technical standards.
• Embed the effective use of AI across the software development lifecycle, from training and career development to measurable impact. You’ll work with the Staff Engineer, squads and Platform team.
• Plan the development of the engineering organisation and ensure teams have the agreed capacity for maintenance, security and technical debt.

Product priorities, squad delivery, architecture, AI standards, platform and data remain with the relevant product, squad and functional leaders. You’ll work with them as a peer and resolve areas of overlap directly.

What you bring to the team

• At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including work on complex, computation-heavy software.
• Strong practical knowledge of the modern SDLC, including CI/CD, automated testing, code review, observability and secure development.
• Current, hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic tools, plus experience driving adoption across multiple teams and measuring its impact.
• At least five years of engineering leadership experience, including two years leading Engineering Managers across multiple teams.
• A track record of hiring, developing and retaining managers and senior engineers, and building fair career and performance processes.
• Experience leading distributed teams and navigating organisational change.
  Fluent English. German, Polish, Italian or Spanish is a plus.
• Experience with simulation or scientific software, regulated products, modernising established desktop systems or European works councils is welcome. A relevant degree is valued, but equivalent experience counts equally.

What’s waiting for you

• Mobility & flexible working
  With a subsidized Deutschlandticket and the option to lease a JobBike bike, you can stay on the road sustainably. Thanks to our flexible working hours and the option of mobile working , you can plan your work individually.
• Workplace Well-being
  30 days' vacation , plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off. Free drinks and fresh fruit await you in the office - and our fantastic canteen offers delicious options for many different diets.
• Development & team spirit
  We invest in your development - with structured onboarding, external & internal training and development seminars. Become part of a competent team and strengthen your network at departmental and company events.
• Financial extras
  Benefit from our bonus model, capital-forming benefits , a company pension scheme or secure exclusive discounts via corporate benefits .
• Healthy & ergonomic working
  Stay fit with our free fitness studio at the headquarter, including a wide range of courses. We also support you with ergonomic office equipment and subsidized workplace glasses.
• Dog-friendly office:
  Because working in a pawsome company makes everything better - of course, with consideration for colleagues who prefer to keep their distance.