Function Owner (f/m/x)

ZEISS Function Owner (f/m/x)

Your Role

• Ownership of the Hardware Function and Backlog, translating Quarterly Planning commitments into actionable sprint scope and deliverables.
• Decision-making authority for trade-offs within the Hardware function, balancing scope, quality, and delivery timelines.
• Collaborating with Mechanical and Electrical Architecture Experts to ensure seamless module integration and drive commonality across products and platforms.
• Responsibility for Function related feasibility assessment and implementation approval within Change Management Process.
• Coordination of Certification Execution Plans and Regulatory Requirement Checks in collaboration with the Conformity Expert.
• Facilitation of Sprint Planning and Sprint Review meetings for the engineering team, ensuring teams commit to achievable goals and deliver value consistently.

Your Profil

• Completed studies in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or comparable technical education.
• Significant professional experience (8+ years) in hardware development, systems engineering, or R&D environments.
• Proven track record in requirements engineering, technical specification, and design documentation.
• Experience with product certification and regulatory compliance (SEMI standards, CE marking, safety certifications).
• Strong understanding of field installation processes, transport logistics, and system integration.
• Experience in agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum) and tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Independent, reliable work style with strong conceptual and end-to-end thinking skills.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Janina Kalmbach

About us

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That’s just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

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