Upvest is on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. The company empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and enterprises alike can save resources and fully focus on their core business.
Upvest is one of the few fintechs in Europe that can provide its B2B clients with the full range of investment opportunities in the areas of principal broking business, proprietary trading, and safe custody business for traditional securities. The company was founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing. Its latest €100m fundraising round (Series C) was led by Hedosophia and Sapphire Venture, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital.
We currently employ 180+ people across Europe with our headquarters based in Berlin, Germany. We would consider hiring remotely for this role. If you do want to move to Berlin though, we’re happy to support your relocation.
Your mission:
We are seeking a Technical Product Manager – Data Platform to play a pivotal role in shaping and driving the strategy, development, and adoption of our data platform. This role sits at the intersection of technology and product management, enabling our engineering teams to build robust, scalable, and high-performing data products. As part of the Platform Engineering tribe, you will collaborate closely with engineering teams, stakeholders, and leadership to define and execute a vision for the data platform that empowers the organization to scale data-driven solutions effectively.
The platform tribe's mission
The Platform Engineering Tribe at Upvest serves as the backbone of our engineering efforts, providing a reliable and innovative platform that empowers teams to achieve their goals. Our mission is to enhance the developer experience by delivering tools, workflows, and infrastructure that streamline daily tasks and free engineers to focus on their core work. We optimize resource usage to reduce development costs, establish consistent and standardized practices to improve collaboration and data reliability, and ensure secure, compliant workflows that meet regulatory standards. By staying at the forefront of technology, we create a platform that fosters innovation and supports teams in building impactful, high-quality products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Ownership: Define and own the vision, roadmap, and strategy for the data platform, ensuring alignment with broader company goals and engineering objectives.
- Enablement Focus: Collaborate with engineering teams to build foundational data infrastructure and tools that enable efficient development and deployment of data products.
- Stakeholder Management: Work closely with infrastructure, data engineering, analytics, and business teams to understand their needs and translate them into platform requirements.
- Technical Product Development: Drive the development of platform capabilities, such as data ingestion and processing frameworks, APIs, self-service pipelines, data governance frameworks, and self-service tools.
- Data Democratization: Lead initiatives to make high-quality, discoverable, and secure data available across teams, promoting a culture of data ownership and autonomy.
- Delivery Oversight: Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery of platform features, ensuring they meet technical and business requirements.
- Evangelism: Advocate for the adoption and use of the data platform tools and services, ensuring alignment across the organization and addressing resistance points where necessary.
Job requirements:
- Experience in Product Management: 5+ years in a product management role, preferably in technical or platform-oriented products within a data-intensive environment.
- Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of data engineering concepts such as data pipelines, data warehousing, (reverse) ETL/ELT, data modelling, distributed event logs (Kafka), data processing libraries (Flink, Kafka Streams), and developer experience in all of these topics.
- Strategic Thinker: Proven ability to define a vision and strategy, break it into actionable steps, and deliver measurable outcomes.
Nice-to-Have:
- Hands-on Technical Background: Experience as an engineer, data scientist, or similar technical role before transitioning to product management.
- Knowledge of Data Governance: Familiarity with concepts such as data cataloguing, data lineage, data privacy, data access control and compliance (GDPR, Trading Insiders, PII).
- Cloud Experience: Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and managed services like BigQuery or Snowflake.
- Domain Knowledge: Experience in fintech or other highly regulated industries.
Why Upvest?
We're working on solving a hard problem: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest. You have the opportunity to contribute to this change.
We invest in you. You get a learning development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.
We have a strong engineering culture encouraging knowledge sharing. Learn from our team members who present internally on various software engineering topics as well as internationally at various developer conferences.
We take hiring seriously with a strong focus on keeping a high bar when interviewing (equally important is that we hire decent people, who are passionate about their craft and helping us achieve our shared mission).
While we're not quite fully-remote, we are committed to being a flexible employer, as we understand you don't have to be in the office to do your best work.
We live a culture of empowerment, trust (that we hire the best people and get out of their way) and openness (there's a greater advantage in sharing information than keeping it to ourselves).
Our values:
Learn and grow. We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback knowing that we develop together. Progression over Perfection.
Team first. We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others' opinions. We win and celebrate together! Team over Egos.
Own the outcome. Whether we win or we lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. Outcome over Process.
Tell the story. We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. Transparency over Complexity.
Upvest is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
