Technical Strategy Manager H/F

Experience

• 5-6 years of overall experience, engineering background (degree in engineering or equivalent)

• Ideal trajectory: 2-3 years of hands-on technical execution, followed by 2-3 years in a hybrid technical/business role e.g. Engineer → Technical Product Manager, Engineer → tech-focused strategy consulting, or Engineer → Chief of Staff to a CTO/VP Engineering

• Profiles with only pure execution experience (no exposure to business trade-offs) or only early technical experience followed by years of generalist consulting (no longer technically credible) are not a fit for this role

• Given the seniority level, the candidate should compensate for limited years of experience with either deep, recognized expertise in a specific technical domain (enough to be seen as a peer by R&D on that topic) or a strong, proven track record of challenging senior stakeholders from a strategy/consulting background.

Technical skills

• Hands-on experience in a technical environment (dev, data, tech product, architecture, not consulting-only exposure)

• Demonstrated ability to understand architecture choices and technical trade-offs, and to assess their relevance

• Comfortable engaging as a peer with CTOs, tech leads, and senior engineers

• Able to speak in concrete, specific terms about a real technical decision they challenged or questioned

Strategy / business skills

• Ability to translate technical issues into business implications, and vice versa

Critical soft skills

• Strong critical thinking and independence of judgment

• Able to distinguish a genuine technical risk from a mere communication gap

• Natural credibility: earns legitimacy through the rigor of the analysis, not through hierarchy