What's the role?
As the Product Owner for Requirements Engineering, you will be the driving force behind our requirements engineering processes. You'll collaborate with dynamic business units, innovative IT teams, and strategic external partners to ensure that requirements are precisely captured, expertly prioritized, and seamlessly implemented to meet our evolving business needs.
Who is Hilti?
Hilti is the place where innovation is harnessed to improve productivity, safety, and sustainability in the global construction industry and beyond. It's where solutions are born based on strong customer relationships, making it possible to build a better future. It's where 34,000 people across 120 different locations worldwide take pride in being part of the team. It's where people have the opportunity to explore their possibilities, unleash their potential, take responsibility for their personal development, and build their careers for the long term.
From the construction, simulation and design of the products, to the production of our own prototypes, to system testing and certification of our power tools - our innovation comes from our own research and development laboratories.
What does the role involve?
- Drive strategic stakeholder engagement to proactively identify, interpret, and anticipate evolving business needs, ensuring long-term alignment with organizational goals
- Define and advocate a cohesive, enterprise-wide vision for the requirements engineering discipline, embedding it as a core pillar of strategic project execution
- Develop and steer a forward-looking product and technology roadmap, ensuring synergy between user needs, market trends, and corporate objectives
- Lead the end-to-end requirements lifecycle—from discovery and modeling to validation and implementation—ensuring seamless integration across all strategic initiatives
- Monitor and evaluate project KPIs and performance metrics, using data-driven insights to optimize decision-making and enhance delivery outcomes
- Act as a strategic liaison across cross-functional teams, ensuring transparent communication, stakeholder alignment, and shared understanding of requirements across departments
- Champion Agile best practices at a strategic level, providing leadership in planning, iteration reviews, retrospectives, and continuous process improvement
- Own the strategic prioritization of the product backlog, balancing near-term business impacts with long-term innovation and transformation goals
- Enable enterprise-wide coordination, fostering alignment between business units, IT teams, and external partners to streamline execution and mitigate risks
- Embed excellence and consistency in requirements engineering, leveraging cutting-edge tools, frameworks, and methodologies to drive quality and innovation across deliverables
We employ over 900 of the world's top engineers who develop and test the technical solutions of tomorrow in our Innovation Center in Kaufering.
What do we offer?
We offer you a unique place to work, in which you are part of a creative and interdisciplinary team. We will give you a lot of responsibility to develop yourself and we´ll support you in shaping your individual career path.
In addition, we offer you innovative and personalized Benefits, such as
- Internal mentoring program
- In-house fitness area with training courses
- Flexible working arrangements
- Mobile working (up to 50% of the monthly working hours)
- Subsidised monthly and annual public transport subscriptions
- Company pension scheme (employer-financed)
- Subsidy for childcare
- Summer holiday care for children
- Two impactful days to make a difference in the environment and society
Further benefits:
- Support in relocating and finding a flat
- Tax advice
The mission of the Hilti Group is "Making Construction Better," based on a passionate and inclusive team, as well as an employee and performance-oriented corporate culture. Integrity, courage, teamwork, and commitment are essential for Hilti - both today and tomorrow. We are proud to say that we not only talk about our values but also live them every day.
What you need is:
- Master´s or Bachelor´s degree combined with at least 10 years of relevant professional experience, or a strong track record in a comparable role within a similar development.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and self-reliantly with a high goal orientation
- Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role within requirements engineering
- Familiarity with Systems Engineering and knowledge of ASPICE is a plus
- Strong ability to manage diverse stakeholders and prioritize tasks effectively
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills — you're a natural collaborator and team player
- Hands-on experience with tools like Polarion X or IBM Jazz
- Knowledge of industry best practices in requirements engineering
- Proficient in Englisch, German is a plus
Why should you apply?
Join a highly motivated, creative, and dedicated team, and bring your spirit of innovation to the table. As part of cross-functional project teams, you will shape the development of outstanding, reliable, and safe power tools that will excite our customers.
During your job interview you will spend some time with us and get to know our company. Thus you will get a feeling for the job and our corporate culture.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is central to our corporate culture. We welcome people with different identities and experiences and encourage diversity of thought. Our goal is to create a safe and inclusive work environment for a passionate & inclusive team. Hilti also stands for equal opportunities, we therefore welcome applications from people with severe disabilities.
Contact: Hilti Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH I Miriam Fries I Human Resources
Should you encounter technical problems during your application, please contact mycareer-techsupport@hilti.com.
