About HelloFresh
At HelloFresh, our mission is simple: to change the way people eat, forever.
As a global, digital-native FMCG company and the world’s leading meal kit provider, we are transforming the traditional food supply chain through a data-driven, on-demand model that enables scalable and more sustainable food delivery.
The HelloFresh Group includes eight brands serving customers across multiple meal occasions, including HelloFresh, Green Chef, EveryPlate, and Chefs Plate, as well as ready-to-eat meals from Factor and YouFoodz, meat and seafood subscriptions through Good Chop, and pet nutrition with The Pets Table.
Through technology, data, and culinary innovation, we deliver personalized food experiences to millions of households worldwide.
The Role
Foundations Alliance’s mission is to accelerate the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and highly available digital products at HelloFresh. We do this by providing services and platforms that improve our internal builders’ productivity and the reliability of our applications and data.
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, and execution for our Operational Data Platform — the systems that create, transport, and store data at the point of origin and make it available for analytics or AI.
You’ll own a well-defined, high-leverage layer of our data ecosystem: the streaming and database infrastructure that product engineering teams rely on to get data flowing reliably from day one.
Your core mission is to ensure operational data is created, delivered, and shared downstream reliably, cost-efficiently, and with the quality guarantees that everything downstream depends on. This enables the analytics layer to receive quality data that is ready to become governed assets.
You’ll define the roadmap for your squad’s platform, covering event streaming, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. You’ll partner closely with the Engineering Lead for the Operational Data Platform and work cross-functionally with data producer teams and the analytical teams consuming the data.
You’ll join at a pivotal moment: your squad is essential to a cost-efficiency and reliability push across critical-path systems — delivering real, visible wins that you can own from day one.
What You’ll Do
- Own the product vision and roadmap for the Operational Data Platform, covering low-latency data creation, transport, storage, and availability for downstream analytics.
- Partner closely with the Engineering Lead for the Operational Data Platform to align product and technical priorities.
- Drive your squad’s cost-efficiency roadmap, owning cost savings as a core KPI.
- Own the reliability of critical-path systems, including streaming and core databases, by setting uptime targets and feeding incident learnings back into the roadmap.
- Champion data-contract and schema standards at the point of data creation, working with data-producing engineering teams to close adoption gaps.
- Guide tooling decisions as the platform evolves, consolidating around the right tool for the job rather than accumulating redundant options.
- Own the handover contract with the Analytical Data Platform, ensuring the data they receive is consistently trustworthy and ready for governance and certification.
- Act as the primary interface between the Operational Data Platform and data producers, translating their needs into roadmap priorities.
- Define, track, and report your squad’s KPIs, including cost efficiency, critical-path reliability, and data-quality adoption, against Foundations’ quarterly goals.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience as a Product Manager with a solid grounding in data infrastructure, data engineering, or backend platforms, with comfort around streaming, messaging, and database concepts.
- Working familiarity with event streaming and relational/NoSQL database technologies, enabling you to partner credibly with engineers on technical trade-offs.
- A track record of owning the roadmap and KPIs for a single team in a well-understood problem space, defining metrics such as cost, reliability, or data quality and driving them toward target.
- Comfort using data to inform prioritization and roadmap decisions, with a growing quantitative and qualitative toolkit and openness to guidance from senior peers.
- Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills, with the ability to build trust and alignment with engineering leads and key stakeholders.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- A pragmatic, execution-oriented approach, driving day-to-day delivery with minimal guidance once direction is set.
- Comfort navigating cost, reliability, and technical debt trade-offs in a live production environment.
What We Offer
Compensation & Financial Wellbeing
- Receive a competitive salary package, including a HelloFresh-subsidized pension scheme.
- Enjoy savings on your weekly HelloFresh box.
- Save with discount schemes through Corporate Benefits and Vorteile.
Health & Wellbeing
- Support your mental wellbeing with access to platforms such as Headspace and Spill.
- Stay active with 24/7 office gym access, a discounted Urban Sports Club membership, and other wellbeing resources.
Flexibility & Work-Life
- Balance your life with our flexible hybrid working model.
- Recharge with sabbatical leave options in addition to standard time off.
- Get to work with ease through sustainable travel perks and transportation benefits.
Career & Development
- Embrace “Learning Never Stops” through internal training, the HelloFresh Academy, and a dedicated budget for German language courses.
Culture & Environment
- Enjoy tasty in-office meal deals and fresh food options.
- We support working families with parent-friendly policies, an in-office kids corner, and an on-site babysitter.
