About the Role
Zalando fulfils more than a hundred million customer orders every year and volumes are increasing. Fulfillment Core within Zalando builds and operates systems that are at the core of Zalando's platform strategy and ensure timely, efficient, and correct delivery of every one of our customers' 185+ million orders every year.
The Role & The Team
At Zalando and in Fulfillment Core, we are committed to providing equal opportunities for career advancement and promotions to all employees, following our inclusiveness principles. We welcome applications for both full-time and part-time positions, as we believe in providing flexible work options to support our employees' diverse needs.
As a Senior Principal Product Manager in Fulfillment Core, you will focus on the Inventory domain.
What We'd Love You To Do (And Love Doing)
•Significant exposure in planning and deploying technical products at scale or equivalent product leadership experience.
•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.
•Apply 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.
•Utilize AI technologies for prototyping, data understanding, and to unblock decision making.
We'd Love To Meet You If You Bring
•Product methods & tools: a strong track record of envisioning, developing, and building successful platform and capability products, ideally in an online service marketplace or e-commerce environment. Able to contribute to and explain a product strategy for your area.
•Customer mindset: ability to understand customer needs and turn them into remarkable products. Experienced in conducting insights with user research and product discovery to provide the voice of the customer, creating the right stories that give users what they need (and not just what they want).
•Multiple domains: experience working closely with cross functional teams in Design, Engineering, and Data Science.
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.
•27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days)
•2 paid volunteering days a year
•Employee shares programme
•40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners
•Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
•Family services, including counselling and support
•Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass)
•Mental health support and coaching available
•Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review
About Zalando
Founded in Berlin in 2008, Zalando is the leading European technology platform for fashion and lifestyle. Connecting 62 million active customers with more than 7,000 brands across 29 markets, our operations are built on a unique AI-powered data and infrastructure platform. For our customers, our multi-app approach - comprising Zalando, ABOUT YOU, and Lounge by Zalando - delivers an inspiring, highly personalized shopping experience, serving different customers with different needs. For our partners, we are building the operating system for e-commerce. Through ZEOS, Tradebyte, and SCAYLE, we open our logistics, software, and service capabilities to brands and retailers, enabling them to seamlessly scale their businesses across borders.
