Senior Lead - Digital Product Manager

Locations: London, Berlin, Zurich

Ecommerce

In short

The Senior Lead, Digital Product Manager role will report to Director Digital Product for E-merchandising Platform within the Commercial Platforms product team. You will lead the technical evolution of the platform powering search, personalization, and product recommendations across our web and app surfaces. By treating internal consumer-facing teams as our customers and successfully integrating solutions, you will transform our digital storefront infrastructure into an asset that drives global commercial growth.

Your Mission

Platform Vision: Drive the roadmap for an extensible, API-first e-merchandising platform enabling real-time personalization, advanced search, and recommendation capabilities

SaaS & Vendor Management: Act as the technical and strategic lead for third-party e-commerce SaaS vendor integrations - evaluating capabilities and designing clean integration patterns

Systems Thinking: Design composable platform capabilities, ensuring upstream platform modifications and data schemas cascade seamlessly across down-stream consumer experiences

Technical Enablement: Turn complex business requirements into technical PRDs, architecting solutions using APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems

Stakeholder management: Treat internal engineering and consumer product teams as your primary customers, ensuring platform tools, documentation, and APIs are intuitive and robust

Trade-offs: Clearly communicate technical risks, scalability, implementation costs, and timelines to negotiate priority lines with both engineering and business stakeholders

Your story

You have a minimum of 5-8 years of experience as a platform or infrastructure Product Manager, specifically building tools, APIs, and capabilities for internal teams rather than end-users directly

You are comfortable navigating complex system architectures (APIs, microservices, event-driven networks) and familiarity working directly with Engineering teams to define architecture

You have exceptional communication skills with a knack for bridging the gap and building consensus between technical engineering teams and commercial stakeholders

You have a proven ability to effectively manage multiple stakeholders and finite engineering capacity, with comfort defining the path forward

You have a strong understanding of e-commerce systems, particularly the mechanics of search, personalization, pricing, or recommendation engines

You have hands-on experience evaluating, integrating, and managing external e-commerce or technical SaaS vendors, with the ability to translate between vendor requirements and internal needs

Systems Thinker: You have the ability to see the big picture and understand how a single platform modification impacts multiple interconnected downstream systems and consumer teams

Collaborative Communicator: You are capable of translating complex technical architectures into clear business value for commercial leaders, and vice versa

Growth-Oriented & Composed: You thrive in a fast-paced environment, safely navigating ambiguity and driving internal platform adoption with a mentor-like mindset

About the Team

You will be part of our E-merchandising Platform team, part of the Commercial Technology Core Cluster. This function partners closely with our backend engineering team and works cross-functionally with Consumer Experience, Data Science, and Commercial teams. Together, you will abstract technical complexity to empower internal teams to experiment, learn, and rapidly evolve On's digital shopping experiences.

London

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Location

Berlin

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Germany

Location

What we offer

On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.

Build the better you

What to expect

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.

Step One

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role. We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.

Step Two

Interview with a recruiter

What ignites your spirit? This is where we’ll start getting to know all about you and what makes you tick – and it’s your first chance to get a feel for our culture. Chatting with a member of our talent team, you’ll learn more about On and how we work. We’ll learn about what motivates you and what you could bring to the team.

Step Three

Interview with a hiring manager

Ready to dig into the details? This second interview will be held with your future manager and will focus on the specifics of the job. Together you’ll delve into your unique skills and experiences and how they could be relevant at On. It's also a time to assess how you might feel working side-by-side. Bring any questions you have about the job, the team or anything else you might like to know – this is an open forum.

Step Four

The Case Study

What's your style? This task will help us understand how you think, face a challenge and give insight into your novel ideas. Designed to give everyone their best shot, your case study is based on something you might typically experience on the job. This is your chance to show us what you’ve got. So express yourself. Be you.

Step Five

The Experience Day

Your first taste of the Oniverse. This is a time to meet some of the people you'll be working closest with. In person or virtually, you'll get a feel for the day-to-day at On and the people who make it happen. You'll chat with a few potential teammates - the conversations will be as equally driven by the role and your experience as by our values. We believe how you do things is just as important as what you do.

Step Six

The Result