Senior Product Manager - Localisation Platform

ABOUT THE TEAM
Scaling an international e-commerce platform for multiple product categories and for many different consumer segments needs a strong foundation of core capabilities that can be leveraged across many teams, different target markets and for a variety of product experiences. This is the purpose of the Client Engineering Platform teams at Zalando: We provide platforms for user tracking, web rendering, media delivery, privacy, data delivery, and localisation.

Are you impact driven and love to see your work delighting millions of customers? Are you passionate about working with many different people from different functions? Do you love solving big problems jointly with others? Probably you even love to work with languages and translations? If you are keen to support Zalando scaling to more countries and becoming more diverse by introducing more languages and if you would love to be a part of a team that shapes the future of shopping fashion & beauty online, this position might be the right one for you.

As the new Senior Product Manager for localisation you will be responsible for building a strong vision and strategy for our localisation platform, as well as the orchestration and execution of different localisation and translation projects, you will be the counterpart for our external platform vendor, you will manage the technical work as well as the strategic direction for how we build international but localised digital experience across different markets.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED

• Creation of a strong product vision and -strategy
• End-to-end management of all Localisation projects and needs across the organisation
• Understanding requirements and strategic needs from different stakeholders and translating those into change or feature requests for the vendor or your internal delivery team
• Engaging with the Business Units as well as the Marketing and Editorial Teams to make data driven recommendations (e.g. during their project exploration and solution design phase)
• Orchestration and execution of Localisation projects and needs across the organisation
• Managing cost and contractual optimizations

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• An experienced program or project manager, ideally with some insights into Product Management techniques.
• An agile (transparent, participation, iteration, collaborative) mindset with high customer focus and excellent people skills
• Talented writer of technical concepts, product roadmaps, and project briefs.
• Systematic approach towards problem solving (Don't fix symptoms, fix root causes!)
• You understand how to move your project or program from ideation through go-live, delivery, and handover, looking for ways to simplify future efforts to make them more "business-as-usual."
• A highly motivated team player, you can manage conflicts and priorities among teams and stakeholders. You take ownership of your tasks, and work in an independent and structured manner.
• Ideally, the candidate was involved or led localisation / translation project

PERKS AT WORK

• A workplace run on trust, empowerment and feedback; positive, inspiring working atmosphere
• 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
• Mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
• Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms

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, connecting customers, brands and partners across 23 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 45 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 email.