Principal Product Manager -Early Products

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.

• 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.