Product Manager (f/m/d) - Seller Platform

Who we are

We operate Kaufland.de: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Our work is characterised by a dynamic corporate culture, with a start-up mentality and the power of a big corporate group. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team. Whether you're an intern or a teamlead: We take every idea seriously, because we want to work together in shaping the future of e-commerce!

We love flexibility! We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focused way: You decide whether you want to work in our office in Cologne // Darmstadt // Düsseldorf while at the same time having the opportunity to work remotely (Germany). We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and a maximum of flexibility for your personal work-life balance.

Day-by-day, our development team of about 250 experts pursues the goal of creating the best-possible customer shopping experience for the Kaufland.de marketplace. We are here to inspire millions of customers, to help them find, purchase and get the things they love. To enrich the lives of our customers, we collaborate in cross-functional teams, in which product owners, product designers, frontend and backend engineers, data scientists and lean managers join forces. Details regarding the challenges of the respective product areas can be found here:  https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech/ .

Your tasks – this is what awaits you in detail

• In close collaboration with Engineering, Design and UX research you will drive developments, optimisations and innovations and build digital products for our growing marketplace
• You focus on creating an experience that inspires our Sellers throughout their journey – by enabling them to sell their products on our marketplace that in turn creates an intuitive buyer experience
• You prioritise, measure value and work on and build the most valuable items, align on business priorities, and help to develop strategies and prioritise and develop an outcome driven product roadmap
• You spend valuable time speaking with our customers and build products that solve real customer problems
• You use data to make decisions, discover new opportunities and formulate ideas and measure impact of releases and shipped product
• You understand the business, including sales, account management, support and understand their objectives and constraints and use their expertise to build a successful product
• You create, develop and manage excellent relationships with a network of stakeholders (from the development team, other product manager, business experts, to support to C-Level executives), assess their requirements, communicate and influence

Your profile – this is what we expect from you

• You have Product Management experience, successfully implementing and launching web applications
• You bring along strong communication skills, working closely with the development team, and business stakeholders, with the ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take
• You are data savvy and know what questions to ask and know how to and where to get the right data
• You possess customer-centric thinking and have experience in generating and understanding customer feedback to drive decision-making
• You have worked with agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• You are willing to embrace our company culture and values and enjoy working in an international, english-speaking team
• Ideally you possess domain knowledge and understanding of the e-commerce marketplace and knowledge of competitors, technologies and trends

What we offer

• Create your own work-life! We offer you the best possible flexibility in terms of working hours and location 
• A highly-motivated and qualified team from different fields and numerous nations
• The future is digital - Develop the e-commerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users with a broadly-based technology stack
• Power meets dynamic - flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet the power of a big corporate group and offers you an agile and secure working environment at the same time
• Free choice of hardware – we provide you with the development environment of your choice
• Personal & team growth: We love to have flexibility in terms of working location, but we also believe that personal interactions are important. That’s why we organize company events, and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get togethers with your peers. The same applies to conferences and other learning opportunities. We want everybody to grow personally and professionally, as a team and as a company.
• Top conditions at the Urban Sports Club for fitness, team sports, yoga and more

Check out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!

Refer an Engineer Program

You want to work for us, but not without your dearest colleague? Join us as a team and earn money by referring your buddy for one of our open Tech positions! Depending on the level we offer a bonus up to 1.300,- € per referral, which will be paid after successful recruitment (the first part with your first salary, the second part after your buddy passes the trial period).