Principal Product Manager - Data Infrastructure (all genders)

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As a Principal Product Manager in Data Infrastructure you will be responsible for defining and driving the product vision for future data infrastructure capabilities. We provide a set of integrated services to ease data pipeline creation and data serving through Databricks, AWS Redshift Airflow) and employing a data lake and the data mesh concept to democratize petabytes of Zalando’s data and make them accessible and impactful to all our internal users. 

Together with the engineering and product team, you will build customer centric, secure, scalable and efficient capabilities in our infrastructure to enable more than 5000 colleagues across the business. Our stakeholders enable data driven decision making in their Business units (e.g. Logistics, Marketing, Planning etc) and we empower them. Strong analytical skills and stakeholder management are key success factors for this role.

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

• Improve data experience and user productivity by discovering new product opportunities with a customer-centric mindset, business savvy and performant execution

• Closely collaborate with product managers in your team and with stakeholders across the business 

• Analyse and explain problems and propose solutions with their pros and cons

• Drive product development by setting a clear vision and roadmap to achieve ambitious targets supported by data

• Facilitate decision making by writing carefully crafted narrative documents which clearly communicate the rationale in an easily digestible and professional manner. 

• Be a mentor to other colleagues by showcasing deep expertise in your domain and acting as a role model for successful product management.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• You are an experienced Product Manager from a Data or Platform domain 

• You have experience defining and delivering on best practices for scalable infrastructure enablement for big data processing use cases.

• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to translate technical functionality into relatable features across multiple teams, align goals and deliverables and drive overall success independent of organisational boundaries

• You have experience owning the long and medium term vision and development roadmap for products. You have driven products which have a multi-year horizon for realisation of the full vision

• You know how to measure the success of your product and continuously iterate to improve it for the benefit of our partners

• You are excited about complex problems, show grit and curiosity at tackling them, while inspiring others

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.

• Employee shares program

• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners

• Two paid volunteering days a year

• In a hybrid working model with 60% remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration

• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

• 27 days of vacation a year to start

• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)

• Family services, including counseling and support

• Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)

• Mental health support and coaching are available

• Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review

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!

This role is available on a full time or part-time basis