
Lead Technical Product Manager — Machine Learning Platform
Berlin · Barcelona · 7+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Berlin · Barcelona
About the role
- We are seeking an experienced Lead Technical Product Manager for our Machine Learning Platform within the Intelligent Operations Platforms segment.
- In this role, you will define the long term vision, platform architecture, and execution strategy for core Machine Learning infrastructure across N26.
- Your work will enable squads across the bank to automate risk assessments, prevent financial crime, and scale operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Core ML Platform Vision: Define and execute the multi-year roadmap for the central Machine Learning platform, ensuring alignment with broader engineering architecture and executive business goals.
- Lead High-Volume ML Portfolios: Oversee complex predictive ML capabilities supporting high-throughput banking systems, focusing on real-time transaction monitoring, automated credit risk scoring, and operational workflow decisioning.
- Scale Enterprise MLOps Infrastructure: Own the platform tooling and standards across the full ML lifecycle.
- Drive strategic decisions around feature stores, real-time feature extraction pipelines, model registries, automated retraining triggers, and CI/CD for ML.
- Establish Model Evaluation and Governance: Define robust offline and online model evaluation frameworks, shadow deployment mechanics such as champion and challenger testing, and real-time monitoring for model drift, inference latency, and data quality degradation.
- Bridge Technical Leadership and Compliance: Partner closely with Principal Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Security, and Legal stakeholders to ensure models meet strict European banking governance, explainability, and auditability standards.
- Elevate and Mentor the PM Function: Serve as a functional leader within the product organization.
- Establish best practices, PRD standards, and self-service ML integration blueprints while mentoring Product Managers in the team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of Product Management experience in a technology-driven environment, with at least 4 years deeply focused on building, scaling, and managing core Machine Learning platform capabilities or data infrastructure.
- High-Volume B2C Scale: Proven track record of shipping ML products within high concurrency and low latency environments such as FinTech, payment processors, or high-scale consumer tech platforms.
- Strategic & Portfolio Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading multi-squad initiatives, shaping platform strategy across cross-functional engineering triads, and presenting to C-level executives and regulatory bodies.
- Deep ML and MLOps Literacy: Hands-on understanding of predictive ML methodologies including classification, regression, clustering, anomaly detection, and ranking.
- Architectural mastery of modern MLOps pipelines such as Kafka event streams, feature stores, vector databases, and automated retraining.
- Analytical and Evaluation Rigor: Highly proficient in defining model performance metrics like precision, recall, ROC-AUC, and F1-score.
- Latency and System Trade-Offs: Strong ability to evaluate technical trade-offs between real-time inference and batch scoring, feature compute complexity and latency SLAs, and model accuracy versus explainability.
- Financial Governance and Compliance: Deep understanding of regulatory constraints around automated financial decisioning, model transparency, data privacy under GDPR, and audit trails in regulated environments.
Benefits
- competitive personal development budget
- work from home budget
- fitness & wellness discounts
- public transportation subsidies
- Premium N26 bank account subscription for you, plus subscriptions for friends and family
- an additional day of annual leave for each year of service
- relocation package with visa support
Skills
- Kafka
- Feature Stores
- Vector Databases
- MLOps