Senior Director Product Engineering – Fleet (m/f/d)

SIXT runs one of Europe’s largest mobility fleets on a platform that scaled with the business but hasn’t fully modernized with it — legacy elements meeting a modern cloud platform, and ~30 product surfaces accumulated rather than evolved. A structured Fleet Ops landscape assessment has set the destination and a credible path. The role of Senior Director Product Engineering – Fleet (m/f/d) is the chapter that builds it. You don’t hand the target architecture to someone else to build. You own it end-to-end — from problem framing to production reality — across product, engineering, business, and the organisational reshape it demands. You hold the pen on every strategic call: start, stop, replace, defer. That rare mandate is exactly what we’re hiring for.

YOUR ROLE AT SIXT

• Own the Transformation End-to-End: You are the executive owner of the Fleet Ops target architecture, accountable for turning it into production reality across the full lifecycle — Vehicle Creation, Purchasing, Central Fleet Ops, Logistics, and Fleet Steering & Analytics.
• Hold the Pen on Strategy: You sequence the roadmap across teams, sign off or redirect every investment on architectural fit, and arbitrate trade-offs when teams or markets pull in different directions. Every strategic call is yours, recorded in writing and traceable to the target.
• Stand Up the Architecture — and Keep It Honest: You build the canonical data and event backbone the target depends on, collapse ~30 fragmented surfaces into a small, opinionated set, and drive legacy decommissioning on a dated schedule. The target is a living artefact you pressure-test against new evidence, not a one-off deliverable.
• Lead Stakeholders and the Org Reshape: You run the strategic forums, brief the executive committee on progress and trade-offs, and partner with lifecycle business owners and country GMs — standing up capability-aligned, end-to-end teams with named accountable leaders.

YOUR SKILLS MATTER

• Product + Engineering Depth — in One Person: Deep product judgement — problem framing, prioritisation, surface consolidation, the willingness to retire what no longer earns its place — paired with equally deep engineering credibility in system design, data and event architecture, legacy modernisation, and delivery at scale.
• Strategic Execution: You sequence multi-team roadmaps, make irreversible start/stop/replace decisions, and run a single quarterly platform roadmap under one accountable owner.
• Legacy Modernisation at Scale: You’ve migrated real systems off mainframe and legacy estates, run dated sunset plans, and shipped platform building blocks into production — not slideware.
• Executive Stakeholder Management: You hold alignment across leadership, engineering, business, and country GMs, and translate platform decisions into business language.
• Language: Fluent English required. German is a plus.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Extra benefits: Enjoy discounts on SIXT rent, share, ride and SIXT+, attractive vehicle leasing offers, and exclusive deals with partners for travel, tech, fashion and more.
• AI at your fingertips: From day one, you'll have access to Claude by Anthropic and SIXTgpt, SIXT's own AI platform, to supercharge your work. We invest in every team member's AI journey: encouraging experimentation, building knowledge, and making sure you're ahead of the curve.
• Mobility boost: We support your mobility with a company car.
• Future security: We contribute to your retirement plan and support you with capital-forming benefits to ensure you are well covered.
• Feel-good atmosphere: Stay active with our modern SIXT gym, various leisure activities like the gaming area or the SIXT choir, and enjoy our high-quality employee restaurant.
• Flexibility: Enjoy 30 days of vacation and a hybrid working model with flexible hours.
• Giving back: Take one day each year to volunteer at a charitable organization dedicated to supporting children.

About us

We are a globally leading mobility service provider with a revenue of €4.00 billion and around 9,000 employees worldwide. Our mobility platform ONE combines our products SIXT rent (car rental), SIXT share (car sharing), SIXT ride (taxi, ride, and chauffeur services), and SIXT+ (car subscription), giving our customers access to our fleet of 350,000 vehicles, the services of 4,000 cooperation partners, and around 5 million drivers worldwide. Together with our franchise partners, we are present in more than 110 countries at 2,000 rental stations. At SIXT, top-tier customer experience and outstanding customer service are our highest priorities. We believe in true entrepreneurship and long-term stability and align our corporate strategy with foresight.