(Senior) Product Manager (m/w/d) Search & AI

Job ID: 1916

Department: Digital Core Business

Start: as soon as possible

Contract duration: unlimited

Work hours: full time (40 hours/week)

Your new passion

Product Strategy & Vision

• Strategic Leadership: You own the strategic direction for AI-powered search and decision support as a core capability within the Thieme product portfolio, reporting directly to the CTO.
• Driving Innovation: You shape the vision for intelligent search and chat, ensuring our medical products remain cutting-edge for healthcare professionals.

End-to-end ownership

• Full Lifecycle Responsibility: Your team is responsible for the development, integration, and continuous improvement of AI-driven search: from classic keyword search and semantic retrieval to RAG-based systems and the chat frontend.
• The Bridge between Product & Tech: As a Technical Product Manager, you operate at the intersection of product and engineering.
  • You collaborate with product leads, transforming user needs into strategic product decisions and a clear technical roadmap.
  • As Tech Lead, you and your team identify the optimal technological solutions and implement them efficiently.

Team building & leadership

• Cultivating Excellence: You will build and lead a modern, cross-functional development team, uniting all the skills necessary – from search backend to frontend – to bring our roadmap to life.

Measuring success

• Data-Driven Optimization: You define KPIs for product and technology goals (e.g., search quality, performance, user satisfaction) and use data to drive continuous improvement.

You inspire us with this

• Proven Track Record: You have experience as a Tech Lead or Senior Engineer with direct product responsibility.
• Strategic Architect: You excel at merging product and technology visions into actionable roadmaps.
• Deep Tech Expertise: You are experienced in search technologies, ranging from traditional search to modern RAG approaches.
• Hybrid Mindset: You combine analytical thinking and strategic strength with a hands‑on, "get-it-done" mentality.
• Empowering Leader: You possess the leadership skills to build and inspire collaborative, high‑performing teams.
• Decision Maker: You are prepared to evaluate diverse approaches and lead your team toward the best possible solution.

What we offer you

• With the option of flexitime (40 hours/week for full-time employees) and mobile working within Germany, you can organise your own individual way of working.
• Use state-of-the-art hardware, which we will of course provide you with.
• Become part of a family‑run, internationally active company - accompany our digital transformation and actively help shape the future of healthcare.
• Support pioneering innovations in the field of digitalisation and set new standards together with us.
• Experience a new work culture of participation - we focus on empowerment and respectful interaction with one another.
• Benefit from individualised offers from the Thieme.ACADEMY that promote your strengths and drive your personal development.
• You can also take advantage of our wide range of health and sports programmes.