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Director Product (m/f/d)

  • Contract Type: Experienced
  • Start Date: From now on
  • Location: Hamburg, HQ Hamburg (hybrid**)

We are currently looking for a skilled & passionate Director Product to become part of and lead one of our Tech Units at ABOUT YOU.

Our Tech Department is the heart of ABOUT YOU, driven by the passion to develop the best infrastructure & applications. As our Director Product, you will be responsible for a 20-to-25-member team of developers, product owners, business analysts and project managers together with a Director Tech. With your deep understanding of eCommerce processes as well as stakeholder and people management, you will manage a unit with many stakeholders and dependencies and enable application teams to deliver technical and business roadmap features in quality and on time, supporting the growth plans of ABOUT YOU.

 

What you will do

  • Manage and mentor a cross-functional team of 20 members including developers, senior product managers, and project managers; support decision-making processes and address challenges and needs in daily operations

  • Closely collaborate with stakeholders (business and tech) in order to understand their needs, advocate smart and business-value driven solutions across your tech teams, as well as to sensitize stakeholders to the tech perspective
  • Act as a role model and leader for your team, keep spirits high, get yourself involved wherever needed and bring drive into the unit
  • Through co-leadership with the Director of Tech, enable application teams to deliver high-quality technical and business roadmap features on time, supporting the growth plans of ABOUT YOU
  • Establish an environment of knowledge exchange to manage and distribute knowledge within and across teams
  • Align with the ABOUT YOU Commerce VP level on the strategic direction of the unit, goals and measures in line with overall company targets

Who you are

  • A seasoned management professional with 10+ years of professional experience with a minimum of 5 years of experience in managing team environments that enable tech teams from a product/ project perspective to function at their best

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills that help you understand and manage business and tech stakeholder needs as well as to maintain a sustainable relationship with stakeholders
  • Product oriented thinking and good understanding of partner and B2B processes
  • Tech enthusiast, experience in the digital retailing market with a focus on B2B processes is a plus
  • You are comfortable with working in an international working environment and your written and spoken English skills are very good
  • While managing teams and making high-level decisions, you are willing to “dig deep” into operations and help teams unblock and reach their goals
  • You can identify with a proactive, responsible and data-driven mindset and feel confident in making informed decisions
  • In order to align on effective and timely solutions you create full transparency on management level, including positive status updates as well as operational challenges, risks and impediments

Additional Information

**Working model:

Due to the upcoming tasks and responsibilities for this position, it is required to work onsite at our headquarters in Hamburg on a weekly basis. Therefore we’ve implemented a hybrid working model that allows us to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays and to work onsite from Tuesday to Thursday.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working

  • Fresh fruit every day

  • Sports courses

  • Free access to code.talks

  • Exclusive employee discounts

  • Free drinks

  • Language courses

  • Company parties

  • Help in the relocation process

  • Mobility subsidy

  • State-of-the-art technology

  • Central Location

  • Flexible Working Hours

  • Company pension

  • Professional training

  • Dog-friendly office

  • AY Academy

  • Feedback Culture

  • Job Bikes

YOU ARE THE CORE OF ABOUT YOU.
We take responsibility for creating an inclusive and exceptional environment where all genders, nationalities and ethnicities feel welcomed and accepted exactly as they are. We believe that a diverse workforce essentially contributes to the ABOUT YOU culture. In order to maintain talent and diversity, we emphasize the care for physical health, mental health and overall well-being. Our values and work ethics essentially contribute to our brand mission: empower acceptance and shape an inclusive, fair and circular fashion culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus, we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents.

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