Principal Product Manager - First, Middle and Last Mile (all genders)

at  Zalando

THE ROLE & THE TEAM

As a Principal Product Manager in the Transport team, you will have end-to-end ownership of discovering, defining, launching, and improving world-class transport network and configuration experiences for Zalando’s 40MM+ customers. You will join a team that owns the transportation platform for Zalando working with 30+ carriers across 23 Zalando markets.
This role is specifically focused on expanding network capabilities for Zalando transportation. You would own the problem statement of how we use different network configurations to increase the speed of delivery to customers through approaches such as Direct Injection, sorting and selection techniques among others.

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

• You will collaborate with product, engineering and commercial teams across the organization (Fulfillment Core, Logistics Algorithms, Warehouse Management and Automation to name a few) to develop new sorting and injection solutions.
• You will own the long term multi year roadmap for Carrier Network Configurations, creating iterative solutions over time to increase delivery speed, reduce network capacity risk, and delivery flexibility.
• You will spend a significant amount of time initially in the problem space, in the operations as well as technical domain, teasing out and creating a common understanding of current process and technical constraints inhibiting us to achieve our business objectives in this domain. This will be followed by a technical solution proposal and implementation of desired feature and capability sets.
• You will become a trusted partner and subject matter expert by diving deep into Zalando’s complex technology & solution space, to discover, define, and deliver remarkable solutions.