Engineering Product Manager Lisboa

Engineering Product Manager
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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Engineering Product Manager

Apply locations Lisbon time type Full time posted on Posted 10 Days Ago job requisition id JR103181

Engineering Product Manager – SN Engineering Platform [ Engineering Enablement ]

Building services that enable others

Springer Nature is one of the world’s leading global research, educational and professional publishers. It is home to an array of respected and trusted brands and imprints, with more than 170 years of combined history behind them, providing quality content through a range of innovative products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people, helping researchers and scientists to discover, students to learn and professionals to achieve their go als and ambitions. The company has around 10, 000 staff in over 50 countries.

We’re looking for an Engineering Product Manager who will drive the evolution and adoption of our Engineering Platform across Springer Nature.

About us: Engineering Enablement

The Engineering Enablement (EE) department consists of around 6 5 people, spread over teams that closely collaborate to fulfil our mission. In Springer Nature Technology (SNT) we serve different core expertise : Paa
S, Databases, Observability and Cloud- and Release Engineering. You will join a multidisciplinary team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels. We are a very distributed department but sometimes we travel to work with each other in person. We are based around the globe with main locations in London, Dordrecht, Berlin and Lisbon.

About The Job

We are looking for an Engineering Product Manager to drive the evolution of our Engineering Platform. This role will enable teams across Springer Nature to build and scale applications efficiently while reducing operational complexity. It will sit at the intersection of developer experience, platform strategy, and cloud governance, ensuring that our platform aligns with business needs and engineering best practices.

You will work closely with EE's platform engineering teams on the establishment of the platform's roadmap, covering the needs of developers and core stakeholder groups (including some: security, data product teams and AI capability functions). While you push our Platform-First-Strategy, you prioritise Platform as a Service (Paa
S), drive adoption of
-
- class developer tools, and continuously improve the platform’s usability, performance, and security.

You will have a good understanding of developer workflows, CI/CD, Runtime and scaling, and platform engineering. You should be passionate about streamlining development processes, reducing operational burden, and driving a culture of automation and
- service.

You will be working with colleagues from different backgrounds and experience levels. All team members collaborate to deliver solutions that best satisfy the needs of our business, and we are working to create a culture that encourages new ideas and innovation, but within the boundaries of the technologies that suit Springer Nature's vision best.

If you enjoy working at the intersection of technology, product, and developer experience, and want to have a tangible impact on how engineering teams build and ship software, this role is for you.

About You

• You are able to quickly gain context of your area and how it fits together into the wider business context.

• You are proactive,
  - driven , make yourself useful, pull information and don't wait to be asked, seek advice when unsure.

• You like working in a collaborative team where there is collective responsibility.

• You can demonstrate experience in working successfully with teams in an agile manner.

• You can demonstrate your experience in facilitating groups to achieve defined goals and outcomes using various facilitation tools and techniques.

• You will have excellent communication skills and articulate concepts and ideas from technical and functional business perspectives.

• You can use available data to inform decisions and build better products.

• You proactively identify pain points and openly address any forms of gaps.

• You can demonstrate the outstanding analytical ability to solve complex problems.

• You ha ve experience working in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

• You use your drive, creativity and initiative to move the team forward.

• You have experience in driving continuous improvement and innovation across teams.

• You can collaborate with multiple teams across different locations to deliver solutions.

• You are intellectually curious and motivated - constantly looking for more context.

• You disdain routine and get involved with a wide variety of different activities.

You are a friendly team member who is modest and humble, open to learn from anyone regardless of age, gender, race, role or experience. You value social interactions and are able to
- reflect by asking questions. You favour building relationships over building systems. Continuously looking for improvement, but not chasing perfection and accepting failure. You have a strong preference of working together and sharing knowledge as opposed to quickly g etting things done alone. We care more about these qualities than technical knowledge.

We highly value potential, not just experience, so don't feel you have to tick all the boxes -- we’re looking forward to your application!

Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and execute the Platform-First strategy, ensuring seamless adoption of our Engineering Platform across the organization.

• Align the Engineering Platform roadmap with broader cloud strategy goals.

• Drive a
  - cloud approach with a focus on abstraction, portability, and open standards to reduce vendor
  - in.

• Collaborate with engineering and leadership to define KPIs and measure the success of platform adoption.

User Experience & Developer Enablement

Work closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand pain points and enhance developer experience through
- service tools and automation.

• Ensure the platform provides standardized, secure, and scalable ( cloud ) services that reduce cognitive load for developers.

• Promote a culture of "secure by design" by integrating governance and compliance into the Engineering Platform an d services.

Execution & Delivery

• Prioritize features and initiatives using a
  - driven approach, balancing strategic impact with engineering needs.

• Collaborate with p latform e ngineers , s olution a rchitects , and security teams to define and govern cloud service consumption.

• Establish clear guidelines for service utilization , ensuring alignment with our governance framework.

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- known names in research, educational and professional publishing.

Working at the heart of a changing industry, we are always looking for great people who care about delivering quality to our customers and the communities we work alongside. In return, you will find that we open the doors to discovery for all our employees – offering opportunities to learn from some of the best in the business, with a culture that encourages curiosity and empowers people to find solutions and act on their instincts. Whether you are at the beginning of your career or are an experienced professional, we invite you to find out more about the roles we offer and explore our current vacancies.

About Us

We are a global and progressive business, founded on a heritage of trusted and respected brands – including Springer, founded in 1842, Macmillan, founded in 1843 and Nature, first published in 1869.

Nearly two centuries of progress and advancement in science and education have helped shape the business we are today. Research and learning continues to be the cornerstone of progress, and we will continue to open doors to discovery through trusted brands and innovative products and services. Springer Nature Group was created in May 2015 through the combination of Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media.

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