Skip to main content

This job has expired

Principal Product Manager - Category Experience

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
27 Apr 2021

View more

Job Details

As a Principal Product Manager within the Category Experience team you will be working on highly visible and high impact customer facing products and features that directly affect the customer experience of 30 million Zalando customers across app and web. You will be working closely with design, engineering and category management to disrupt the way our customers shop fashion and beauty online. You will become a thought leader and trusted expert for our categories such as Beauty and deliver on a digital experience that sets industry standards and that outperforms any specialty shop in the market.

WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
  • Define product strategy, roadmap and backlog for your own area and drive meaningful impact for the customer and business by delivering on them successfully and quickly across the customer journey
  • Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and across teams and functions to identify strategic priorities based on delivering superior customer value and creating business impact
  • Backup your intuition, ideas and decisions through data-driven insights, a high degree of customer empathy and a thorough understanding of market specific trends and customer behavior
  • Involve and engage commercial stakeholders across all phases of product development, share updates, foster alignment and secure buy-in for decisions
  • Author all important product documents including a product roadmap, working backwards press releases, definition of business requirements, as well as functional specifications
  • Define KPIs for your area, understand how they impact our business performance long-term and monitor success over time
  • Mentor and product managers in the team and across the organisation


WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • Experienced (5+ years) data driven and highly collaborative Principal Product Manager with a strong growth mindset and a track record in shipping customer facing products across multiple platforms and business impact at scale.
  • You demonstrated your ability to break down complex problems by applying logical and easy to understand frameworks
  • Demonstrated your ability to relate to customers, identify and understand their underlying motivations and needs and showcased a high degree of intuition for how to solve customer problems and develop the most impactful solution across all stages of product development.
  • Experience with customer research across all phases of product development, backing up intuition through qualitative and quantitative data as well as validating products through customer feedback
  • High degree of competency and experience working with design teams as well as multiple engineering teams, steering product direction from discovery to delivery.
  • Experience in defining and delivering on a product vision and strategy, and the patience to work with competing priorities to deliver value to customers. You can maximize medium-to-long term impact of the work you do with your partner teams and drive overall success independent of organizational boundaries
  • Solid experience in measuring the success of your products across large scale releases to continuously iterate and improve them for the benefit of our customers
  • Track record of leading cross functional teams through influence, not hierarchy, and uniting stakeholders across a large organization behind your product vision and strategy
  • Experience in an e-commerce (ideally fashion or beauty) and a strong business sense


PERKS AT WORK
  • We value our culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meet-ups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events.
  • Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings.
  • Extensive on-boarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts.
  • Relocation assistance for internationals.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

ABOUT ZALANDO

As Zalando transforms from Europe's leading e-commerce company into The Starting Point for Fashion, this is an exciting time to join us. We are Europe's leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. WeWe promise to give customers a flawless choice, the latest trends and styles, unmatched convenience. In a quarter, tens of millions of active customers visit us nearly a billion times, make millions of orders from a catalog of hundreds of thousands of products by over 3000 brands.

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form - we do not accept applications via e-mail.

Company

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.

Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.

Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.

  • Fashion Store
    Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
     
  • Offprice
    The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
     
  • Zalando's Private Labels
    Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
     
  • Zalon
    Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
     
  • Zalando Marketing Services
    The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
     
  • Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
    Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
     
  • Zalando Partner Services
    Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.


With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+49 (0)30 2759 4693
Location
Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert