Senior Product Owner For Observability Platform (AI/ML)

TL;DR

Senior Product Owner (AI/ML): Leading the evolution of the observability platform across all products and AI/ML workloads with an accent on platform strategy, ensuring high-quality instrumentation. Focus on driving measurable improvements in system reliability, operational efficiency, and business transparency.

Location: Hybrid (München, Timisoara). Remote within the EU is an option.

Company

hirify.global is the market leader in Workforce Management Software, helping companies work more intelligently, creatively, and humanely, optimizing the balance between profitability and people.

What you will do

• Own and execute the observability platform roadmap and backlog, aligning to business, engineering, and AI/ML needs.
• Analyze and capture requirements across product lines, engineering, cloud, and AI/data stakeholders.
• Define and validate observability instrumentation for cloud workloads, ensuring coverage for metrics, logs, traces, events, and AI/ML model telemetry.
• Establish and evolve standards for data retention, alerting, dashboards, tracing, and model monitoring across environments.
• Lead agile practices and backlog processes to accelerate delivery and improve platform maturity.
• Communicate progress and roadmap to senior stakeholders through demos, updates, and KPI reporting.

Requirements

• Background as a Product Owner or Product Manager in observability, platform engineering, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or AI/ML operations.
• Deep understanding of metrics, logs, traces, event pipelines, and AI/ML model monitoring.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, microservices, service meshes) and modern instrumentation (OpenTelemetry).
• Strong experience with Prometheus and the Grafana stack at scale, with exposure to AWS/Azure observability services (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Azure Monitor, Application Insights).
• Ability to translate technical requirements into clear priorities, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills across business and engineering.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML observability, drift detection, or model operations.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements for telemetry.
• Multi-cloud observability or large-scale SaaS platform experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible Work Culture: Hybrid options (remote within the EU), 30 days of vacation, and a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion.
• Health & Wellbeing: Including regular check-ups, corporate wellness programs, and Wellhub membership.
• Stability & Growth: Company listed on SDAX & TecDAX, with 19+ years of record-breaking revenue and a 30%+ EBIT margin.
• Competitive Rewards: Including profit-sharing and employee stock program.
• Structured Onboarding & Continuous Leadership Development: Clear career paths onboarding through Expert & Leadership Tracks, plus access to ATOSS Academy.
• Engaging Team Environment: Seasonal company events, team retreats, and an in-house barista.