Product Owner Marketplace (m/w/d) 1506-36

Product Owner Marketplace (m/w/d)

We are looking for a Product Owner who will drive the international growth of our marketplace platform. In this role, you will translate business needs into scalable product solutions, align stakeholders across countries and headquarters functions, and lead the execution of a roadmap that enables successful market rollouts worldwide.

Ready to shape the future of a global marketplace?

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Analyze status quo, evaluate business requirements and develop a strategy for the further enabling international roll-out of the marketplace, align it with global stakeholders from different Headquarter departments and countries, derive and implement the roadmap for executing this strategy.
• Steer the marketplace development team in close alignment with the Head of Marketplace as well as the technical product owner or solution architect including the creation of IT Demands and steering them until their business impact in delivered.
• Ensuring the marketplace fulfills all legal, data privacy, brand and security requirements including the generation of necessary output like approved security concepts.
• Stay aligned with head of marketplace regarding feature priorities, product strategy and technology roadmap.
• Ensure the marketplace has an intuitive user interface based on latest trends in e-Commerce, UX and frontend technologies aiming to be best in class for the eyewear industry.
• Responsibility includes leading the requirement definition and prioritization of entire journeys, new features and feature sets that improve user experience and drive conversion within the given time frame.
• Work closely/collaborate with cross functional teams including marketing, UI/UX designers, technical product owners and architects to ensure quality of the solution.
• Coordinate with external Stakeholders the Integration of third-party applications and plug‑ins as well as external or internal services.
• Drive best in class performance and identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to improve application efficiency.
• Serve as the primary contact for matters concerning Marketplace.
• Good understanding of agile and waterfall frameworks (hybrid preferable).
• Master Product Owner (m/w/d), Software Development (m/w/d), or related field.
• 4 or more years of work experience in software product development with complex products with a proven track record of successfully launched and operated products.
• Preferable in a consumer facing, e‑commerce environment.
• Willingness to take over responsibility and make decisions.
• Up-to-date knowledge in eCommerce experiences. Experience with e‑comm platforms like Commercetools, Magento, Intershop as a plus.
• Able to understand and drive high level technical topics like data management, information security, e‑commerce systems integrations, marketing strategies.
• Drive to upskill themselves and the team permanently including learning from the best via benchmarking, customer visits and trend analysis in eCommerce outside of the eyecare field.
• Understanding of SEO principles.
• Good communication and collaboration in cross cultural and remote teams.
• High level of flexibility and ability to adapt to dynamic and changing environments.
• English proficiency, German is a plus.
• Fluency in English; proficiency in additional languages is a plus.