Principal Product Manager -Early Products

ABOUT THE TEAM & ROLE:

The Early Products team is a cross-functional product engineering unit within the Early Products domain that brings together Customer, Profiles, Boards, and the wider creator and brand experience across Zalando. Working closely with internal teams, this team focuses on turning visionary ideas into emerging businesses with real commercial impact. We build the core cornerstones of the Fashion Store by driving live shopping through Tentpole events and brand partnerships, evolving rich Creator and Brand Profiles, and developing Boards—highly visual, curated collections of fashion items designed to inspire, curate, and connect customers.

Our Early Products teams in our Dublin Tech Hub work on many of the cornerstones of our Fashion Store, including Wishlist, Boards, & Profile. Through full stack engineering and research, we turn visionary ideas into new emerging businesses with real potential. By tackling the most challenging problems for the fashion industry, we drive the personal fashion and lifestyle experience for our customers.

• Define Strategy: Formulate and champion the long-term strategy for User acquisition and data. Break down abstract user needs into highly concrete, scalable product capabilities.
• Bridge Inspiration and Commerce: Balance front-end customer discovery with robust backend capabilities and commercial delivery metrics (customer acquisition).
• Deliver on our customer data and AI goals ensuring our customers privacy whilst understanding them at scale.
• Lead Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as an orchestrator across Design, Engineering, and Data Science as well as across module stakeholders. Navigate and align the competing inputs and requirements of business stakeholders.
• Own the Product Lifecycle: Oversee product lifecycles from initial discovery and hypothesis framing to rollout to deliver measurable value.
• Influence and be a Thought Leader: Elevate the product management discipline at Zalando. Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, contributing to an environment of innovation.

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Work on the Zalando Wishlist, Board and Profile Products which are at the heart of our customer centric philosophy.
• Significant exposure in planning and deploying products at scale.
• Enable high impact execution and delivery by navigating complex trade-offs and using data-informed frameworks to move from concept to reality.
• Apply state-of-the-art AI-enabled product craft by working backwards from a target experience to build seamless, high-quality features for our customers.
• Spearhead and strategise: set a clear vision, smart roadmap and ambitious targets, and relentlessly drive towards those.
• Identify new product opportunities with a customer-centric mindset, select the right solutions to focus on by making business savvy decisions and then move fast to successfully execute on your ideas.
• Applying repeatable best practice product methodologies in cross-functional teams incorporating working backwards from the customer, problem discovery, defining & designing solutions, and delivering agreed outcomes.
• Be a mentor to other colleagues by showcasing deep expertise in your domain and acting as a role model for successful product management.
• Maximize commercial value by defining KPI frameworks and running rapid experiments to shape a roadmap based on real-world insights.
• Ability to utilize AI technologies for prototyping, data understanding, and to unblock decision making.
• Drive our data products to provide Zalando with the best understanding of our customers and their needs.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• Extensive experience: You have product management experience on a lead/principal level, owning a long-term vision and roadmap, using a data-driven approach to identify problems and guide the implementation of solutions in line with the vision 
• Excellent communication skills: You have the ability to understand, analyze, and clearly communicate business problems and priorities to engineering teams and business stakeholders 
• Drive commercial outcomes: You bring a proven track record of influencing consumer decisions to achieve strategic business objectives while remaining customer centric.
• You have a deep passion for ecommerce, fashion, with an understanding of how to drive customer engagement..
• Cultural Fit: You are an authentic, mission-driven individual who excels in managing senior stakeholders and navigating complex environments.
• Have a deep understanding of how to build production grade data products that deal with customer data.  In particular knowledge of customer privacy.

OUR OFFER:

Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

• 40% off products sold and shipped by Zalando 
• 2 paid volunteering days a year

• 27 days of vacation per year to start
• A one-time allowance to set up an ergonomic workstation (outside of Zalando office)
• Health & Dental Insurance (opt-in)
• Pension Trust Fund-up to 10% match (opt-in)
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Tax Saver Commuter Tickets
• Employee shares program
• Family services, including counseling and support
• Health and wellbeing options, including Wellhub
• Mental health support and coaching available
• Professional development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer reviews

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce – one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity, and we actively seek out talent from all backgrounds.

We actively seek to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills, and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age, or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.

We are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. If you require any accommodations to support you throughout the hiring process, please let us know – we are here to assist you.

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