Technical Product Owner

Quick Facts

• Role: Technical Product Owner (full-time or part-time; hybrid)

Description

The Technical Product Owner serves as the internal technical authority for a public cultural platform. You evaluate vendor proposals and implementation quality, coordinate QA and testing (including security, monitoring, and performance tests), and ensure accessibility and GDPR-aligned architecture. In collaboration with the Product Owner, you shape strategy, feasibility, and technical direction—and later help guide an AI roadmap for recommendations, semantic search, and a chatbot with EU AI Act awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead vendor steering: coordinate multiple external software providers and act as the peer contact for architecture and delivery questions
• Work closely with the Product Owner to align strategy, feasibility, and roadmap
• Assess technical offers and guide migration/transition work; coordinate QA and testing
• Ensure compliance with security requirements (logging, monitoring, penetration and load tests) and accessibility (WCAG 2.2)
• Support user registration quality assurance together with the Content & Community lead
• Control: review performance reports, person-days, and invoices vs. offers and contracts to track budget and progress
• Manage contracts and handovers so they include service quality, documentation, and transfer requirements
• Contribute to a secure, GDPR-compliant roles and permissions concept
• Eventually contribute to the AI roadmap (recommendation functions, semantic search, chatbot) with privacy and EU AI Act considerations

Requirements

• Background in software development; able to read code and assess technical concepts, and build small prototypes/scripts when needed (often AI-assisted)
• Experience in technical project management or as a software architect, ideally with microservices/API architectures and agile collaboration with external providers
• Basic understanding of GDPR-compliant system architecture
• Ability to evaluate technical quality independently and take pragmatic responsibility in a small organization
• Clear direct communication, including with difficult technical or budget topics, and strong independent prioritization

Benefits

• Public-interest, free, nonprofit platform that serves the entire state cultural sector
• Real technical influence on a land-wide platform architecture without excessive organizational bureaucracy
• Opportunity to help shape an AI roadmap from early on
• Short decision paths with direct collaboration with leadership and the Product Owner
• Full-time or part-time (minimum 20 hours), employment or freelance/interim mandate options; mobile work with access to a workspace in Munich