Product Development Manager - Tieto Caretech (m/f/d)

Job Description

Manager Product Development - Tieto Caretech (m/f/d)

About us

• Tieto Caretech is modernizing the Nordic health and social care sector with modular, open, and interoperable software. We develop and deliver high-quality software solutions and services that enable healthcare and welfare professionals to do their work even better and with higher efficiency - have more time to care.
• We are a global team of professionals working on providing products and services to different sectors from intensive care to laboratory and social care. In addition to working closely with our customers, we also have our own products that we build and develop for various fields in society. From enabling healthcare professionals to spend more valuable time with their patients to providing data for professional athletes to achieve even better results, we make all that possible. With us you can build technology for the good of society and make your mark on the health and wellbeing of people in need.

Experience level: 18+ Years

Position Summary

• We are seeking a highly skilled Product Development Manager who represents Agile Leadership principles and practices. This role requires a strong technical background combined with exceptional leadership skills. The role is expected to lead team members and managers; drive product development excellence, and enable teams to adopt modern engineering practices, including AI-enabled ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop cross-functional engineering teams in delivering high-quality software products.
• Lead and coach managers/team leads, ensuring effective leadership practices, accountability, and consistent execution across teams.
• Act as a second-line manager with responsibility for multiple teams, including managers reporting into this role.
• Drive technical decision-making and architecture design for complex systems.
• Collaborate with product owners to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Implement and optimize development processes to improve efficiency and product quality.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted software development practices, including responsible use of AI tools for coding, testing, documentation, analysis, and productivity improvement.
• Ensure AI usage follows company policies, security, compliance, data privacy, and ethical guidelines.
• Manage the entire product lifecycle, from conception to deployment and maintenance.
• Attract, recruit, induct, and retain capable technical personnel and managers.
• Evaluate performance, including team and manager input; provide guidance and corrective actions.
• Participate in defining and administering compensation, benefits, and promotions.
• Perform career coaching and personal development for team members, managers, and future leaders.
• Set priorities across teams to ensure task completion, alignment, and project success.
• Support teams and managers in problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making.
• Eliminate technical and organizational impediments to team productivity.
• Manage full financial responsibility for own profit unit.
• Establish short- and mid-term technical plans in cooperation with the management team.
• Participate in product strategy creation and communicate targets clearly across teams.
• Foster an environment that supports cooperation among work teams and with other areas of the organization.
• Balance hands-on technical involvement with empowering managers and teams to problem-solve independently.
• Act as a role model for company values, Lean-Agile Leadership, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Handle products in the maintenance phase, including managing client escalations, critical issues/tickets, and urgent fixes.
• Effectively collaborate with product owners, onsite teams/leaders, managers, and technical support personnel.
• Establish and follow Agile ways of working, ensuring continuous improvement of development processes
• Build a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, and responsible AI adoption.

Required Skills

• Strong technical background with past hands-on coding experience.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Proven track record of delivering complex software projects on time and within budget.
• Strong communication skills, both technical and non-technical.
• Experience in stakeholder management and client-facing roles.
• Ability to balance technical leadership with people management responsibilities.
• Proven experience in managing managers, team leads, or multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to build leadership capability within teams and enable managers to take ownership.
• Good understanding of AI/GenAI trends, tools, and their practical application in software development and product engineering.
• Ability to drive responsible AI adoption while considering quality, security, compliance, and business impact.

Technical Requirements

• Extensive experience with full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, with experience leading Agile teams at scale.
• Strong knowledge of modern software development practices, including CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud technologies.
• Past hands-on experience with one or more programming languages, for example .NET, C#, Java, Python, C++, or JavaScript.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems.
• Experience with database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL.
• Understanding of software testing methodologies and quality assurance processes.
• Knowledge of version control systems such as Git and issue tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools and practices, such as AI coding assistants, automated test generation, code review support, documentation generation, and AI-enabled productivity improvements.
• Understanding of data security, privacy, compliance, and governance considerations related to AI usage in software development.
• Awareness of AI/ML concepts, GenAI capabilities, LLM-based solutions, and their relevance to product development and customer-facing solutions

What’s in it for you?

In addition, as a company we offer you professional growth, open and friendly culture. We believe that our organizational culture is an important part of enabling you to be successful. We provide a flexible hybrid work model as part of our culture and way of working.

Finally, we also believe in curiosity and learning as a lifestyle. We want to encourage you to keep up that curiosity and deepen your knowledge on topics you’re interested in.

Could you be our new colleague?

We look forward to hearing from you! We will fill the position as soon as we find the right person, so we encourage you to apply today. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact the Recruiter.

About Tieto

Tieto creates purposeful technology that reinvents the world for good. We are a leading technology company with a strong Nordic heritage and global capabilities. Based on our core values of openness, trust and diversity, we work with our customers to develop digital futures where businesses, societies, and humanity thrive.

Our 24,000 experts globally specialize in cloud, data, and software, serving thousands of enterprises and public-sector customers in more than 90 countries. Tieto’s annual turnover is approximately EUR 3 billion, and the company’s shares are listed on the NASDAQ exchange in Helsinki and Stockholm, as well as on Oslo Børs.

 

Additional Information

At Tieto, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds, genders (m/f/d), and walks of life to join our team, as we believe that this fosters an inspiring workplace and fuels innovation. Our commitment to openness, trust, and diversity is at the heart of our mission to create digital futures that benefit businesses, societies, and humanity.

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• Remote Type: Hybrid
• Job Area: Strategy and Line Management
• Business Unit: Caretech