Landshut, Germany

(Senior) Technical Product Manager (m/f/d)

We connect the world

HiveMQ helps companies connect devices to the Internet. We make it possible to move data from device to cloud in a secure, reliable, and scalable manner. Over 130 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, rely on our HiveMQ in production for mission-critical use cases like connected cars, logistics, Industry 4.0, and connected IoT products. Our flagship product is HiveMQ, an MQTT broker that empowers innovative companies by creating a central nervous system between things, machines, and humans. Headquartered in the beautiful medieval city of Landshut, Bavaria, HiveMQ is an international company with team members from all over the world.

The mission of the HiveMQ product team is to expand, improve, and maintain the HiveMQ core products to support hundreds of millions of connected devices for mission-critical deployments based on MQTT. We are expanding our highly successful product team with an experienced Senior Technical Product Manager. Our team currently works remotely in European time zones.

At HiveMQ, our customers come first. Thus, as a Technical Product Manager, being an integral part of the HiveMQ broker team and working closely with other disciplines, you will discover and deliver new HiveMQ product capabilities that delight our customers. In this role, you will work cross-functionally to determine how our users interact with our products and run discovery to nail down user problems, needs, and desires. You will strategize product initiatives, break down complex problems and enable your team to deliver new product capabilities. We work with agile principles and believe reliant data enables us to move fast while continuously meriting the trust that our customers store in us every day.

Your mission
  • Learn everything about MQTT, distributed systems, IoT (theory, applications, best practices), and work with your team to understand and deliver outstanding value to our users.
  • Facilitate strategy formation to deliver on outcomes through new product initiatives.
  • Discover users' needs and opportunities utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods.
  • Enable your product team to iteratively discover and deliver new product capabilities.
  • Enable marketing, customer success, and professional services teams and facilitate the influx of product insights from the field.
You have
  • Sound background in software development, ideally related to MQTT or similar distributed streaming technologies
  • A passion for distributed technologies
  • Proven strategy formation/alignment skills
  • Learning Mindset
  • Proven customer/stakeholder management skills
  • Relevant experience as a Technical Product Manager
  • Acquired problem discovery skills
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills and deep empathy with your users
Why us?
  • Just now building the Product Management team - you will help shape Product Management as a discipline at HiveMQ. 
  • Small and diverse team with 50/50 on the gender divide.
  • Our unique HiveMQ culture with awesome colleagues, outstanding team spirit, and innovative technologies
  • A very high level of freedom, flexibility and autonomy
  • Monthly team events and semi-annual company offsites
  • Remote first, flexible working hours.
  • Opportunity to build software for hundreds of customers while you help shape the roadmap of the most advanced MQTT broker on the market.
  • iPhone and Macbook of the newest generation with allowance for private use.
  • Capital-forming benefits (Vermögenswirksame Leistungen), training, bicycle leasing, employer-supplemented pension plan (Arbeitgeberzuschuss zur Betrieblichen Altersvorsorge)


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