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Principal Product Manager - Media Platform

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
27 Feb 2021

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Job Details

As a Principal Product Manager within the Client Engineering team, you will define and own the product vision for creating new capabilities to enable Zalando's engineering community to create high impact customer facing products and features. Your work will directly impact the customer experience of 32 million Zalando customers across app and web who depend on imagery and video content to make their purchasing decisions. You will be working closely with design, engineering and product management communities to disrupt the way our customers shop fashion and beauty online. You will become a thought leader and trusted expert for media related topics and deliver digital solutions or capabilities that enable Zalando to build immersive experiences online.

Find out more about how our Client Engineering Team works here. #clientengineering #pmce

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.
  • 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
  • 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 maximise medium-to-long term impact of the work you do with your partner teams and drive overall success independent of organisational 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 organisation behind your product vision and strategy
  • Experience in working with cloud-based image and video management platforms that provide high quality digital experiences for customers, ideally fashion or beauty e-commerce customers

PERKS AT WORK
  • Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, 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, PME family service and parent & child rooms* (*available only in selected locations)

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

Zalando is Europe's leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to about 32 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

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

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