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Staff Technical Program Manager (f/m/d)

Orbem
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Munich, Germany
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

Staff Technical Program Manager in Orbem's TPM team, responsible for driving delivery of complex cross-functional programs spanning hardware, software and science/AI from development to commercial launch.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Hybrid · Munich, Germany

What you'll do

  • Architect and design end-to-end delivery plans for your team(s), from initial discovery or design phase until commercial launch
  • Lead quarterly OKR planning and ensure it is fully aligned to company OKRs
  • Co-lead product delivery with the Product Manager and Tech Leads; own the how and when
  • Manage dependencies across teams and relevant domains (technical, operations, business development), and keep stakeholders, including external partners, aligned
  • Proactively identify, track, and mitigate technical and non-technical risks — timeline, resources, budget, and scope
  • Escalate and resolve cross-team conflicts; create the decision-making frameworks other teams rely on
  • Champion tooling and process best practices within the team and contribute workflows optimization within the TPM team (e.g. refine the Product Development Lifecycle, Risk Management processes)
  • Coach and mentor other TPMs

What we're looking for

  • Proven track record managing complex, cross-functional technical programs — ideally spanning hardware, software, and/or AI — with high delivery accountability
  • Solid understanding of how complex deep-tech products are engineered across Hardware, Software and Science/AI; able to evaluate trade-offs across all three domains well enough to challenge and guide engineering decisions
  • Practical understanding of how products are operated at customer sites, from early MVPs to mature deployments
  • Expert in building and managing master program plans, sprint structures, milestone tracking, and risk registers across multiple concurrent workstreams
  • Able to translate technical complexity into executive-level clarity and to influence and align without formal authority across matrixed organizations
  • Proven ability to drive adoption of new tools, frameworks, and processes (e.g. PDLC/PLM rollouts, agile tooling) across cross-functional teams — balancing structured change with the pace of a fast-moving scale-up
  • Advanced setup of planning and tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence, covering portfolio dashboards, cross-team dependency and risk tracking, and executive-ready reporting
  • Hands-on with agentic AI tools that boost team efficiency
  • Servant leader who thrives in fast-growing scale-up environments, models candid communication, and creates psychological safety in high-stakes settings

Nice to have

  • Technical background in systems engineering, MRI or AI/ML
  • Experience with deep-tech products involving AI or MRI
  • Direct exposure to the Food & Fresh Produce industry, particularly melons or soft fruits
  • Familiarity with industrializing sensor-based inspection systems for high-throughput agricultural or food processing environments

Your team

TPM team

Diverse and international team; the role co-leads product delivery with Product Manager and Tech Leads and helps strengthen how the wider TPM team works.

Benefits

  • Stock Options: Share in Orbem's success
  • Relocation Support: Seamless support for your move to Germany
  • Learning & Development: €1,750 annual budget for personal growth
  • Fitness Membership: Access to Urban Sports Club or Wellpass
  • Childcare Reimbursement: Support for Kita/Kindergarten fees
  • Deutschland Ticket: Monthly subsidy towards public transportation costs
  • Flexible Hours & Home Office: Work when and where it suits you
  • WFH Perks: Get €185 to upgrade your home office + an external monitor
  • 30 Days Paid Leave
  • Personal Leave: Flexibility for life's important moments
  • Work From Anywhere: Experience new cultures and environments for up to 60 days per year

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About Orbem

We see the potential inside everything and everyone. Starting with you.

Orbem uses AI to industrialize MRI, delivering non-invasive insight into everything from fruits to eggs to the human body. Headquartered and founded in Munich, Germany, with an office in Houston, Texas, the team is scaling inside-out technology to transform how humanity sees and understands biological matter.

Mission

To reduce waste, increase quality, and accelerate the shift toward a more sustainable and healthier future by turning the world's largest biological dataset into actionable intelligence.

Key facts

  • Munich, Germany
  • AI / MRI technology
  • Uses AI to industrialize MRI
  • Office in Houston, Texas
  • Team with 40+ nationalities across 5 continents
  • Compensation range €90K – €100K with €40K – €80K equity (L4)

What they value

  • We Own Every Challenge: we enjoy complexity and thrive under uncertainty
  • We Strive for Better: we seize any opportunity for growth and challenge the status quo; we are constantly learning and improving
  • We Imagine New Frontiers: we think beyond "doable" and "reasonable"; we design a sustainable and healthy future together