Every product decision across idealo's shopping experience contributes to how millions of users discover, compare and choose products every day.
As Group Product Lead for B2C Products at idealo, you lead the Product Leads and Product Managers responsible for idealo's core customer-facing experience across web and apps. You combine hands-on product work with coaching your team, ensuring your group consistently delivers for millions of users.
As a player-coach, you stay hands-on in selected parts of the portfolio while owning the roadmap and delivery across the group. You resolve competing priorities, align work across product areas, and ensure your teams deliver a coherent customer experience.
This is a highly visible role at the center of idealo's shopping experience across our international markets.
About your ew roleLead and coach Product Leads and Product Managers across idealo's customer-facing products, including product discovery, product and offer selection, offer decision-making, placements, retention features, visual product presentation, deals pages and voucher experiences.
Own the roadmap and delivery across your group, ensuring the individual roadmaps of your Product Leads form one coherent and well-prioritized portfolio.
Stay hands-on in selected parts of the portfolio while supporting your team as a player-coach.
Resolve conflicts between Product Leads competing for shared engineering capacity, stakeholder attention or product priorities.
Partner closely with Engineering teams and Principal Engineers to align technical direction and product priorities.
Represent your group's priorities and delivery to the VP Product, align closely with the Group Product Leads for B2B and Catalogue/Foundation, and translate company objectives into clear priorities for your teams.
Must-have
Extensive experience in product management, including leading, coaching or developing Product Managers or Product Leads.
Proven track record of driving delivery across multiple product areas or teams, ideally in consumer-facing e-commerce or marketplace products.
Strong skills in resolving cross-product conflicts, balancing prioritization trade-offs and aligning stakeholders across an organization.
Comfortable partnering closely with Engineering leadership while remaining part of the Product organization.
You maintain a hands-on, action-oriented mindset, driving initiatives forward even in ambiguous circumstances.
Nice-to-have
Experience working across multiple customer-facing product domains within a larger product organization.
Excellent collaboration skills, particularly with fellow Product leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
Fluent in German and English.
The confidence to speak up and challenge ideas constructively, paired with openness to diverse perspectives.
You want to further your education? We take your personal development goals seriously and, in addition to our idealo Learning Hub, eLearning offerings (e.g., Udemy), coaching & mediation, we also offer you the opportunity to benefit individually from additional learning and development budget.
And what about the office? Our office in the heart of Berlin offers free organic breakfast, excellent free lunch (vegan and vegetarian), as well as free coffee, lemonades and after-work beer, in addition to the "standard foosball". It also has a fabulous rooftop terrace with view of the whole of berlin where you can network with colleagues from our group of companies.
In need of additional support in any areas of your life? We offer free counseling and support in all areas of life (professional, private, family, health, etc.) in cooperation with the pme-Familienservice.
You want full flexibility on your way to work and beyond? No problem with a job bike or Deutschlandticket - and it's environmentally friendly, too!
Want to keep yourself fit? We offer many different fitness and sports options, such as an Urban Sports or Gympass membership, to suit your personal needs.
And what else is there? Of course, success must be celebrated! In addition to team events, you can also expect big company events and other moments of organized connection with others in the company and your team throughout the year!
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Skills Required
- Extensive experience in product management, including leading, coaching or developing Product Managers or Product Leads.
- Proven track record of driving delivery across multiple product areas or teams, ideally in consumer-facing e-commerce or marketplace products.
- Strong skills in resolving cross-product conflicts, balancing prioritization trade-offs and aligning stakeholders across an organization.
- Comfortable partnering closely with Engineering leadership while remaining part of the Product organization.
- Maintain a hands-on, action-oriented mindset, driving initiatives forward even in ambiguous circumstances.
- Experience working across multiple customer-facing product domains within a larger product organization.
- Excellent collaboration skills with fellow Product leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Fluent in German and English.
- Confidence to speak up and challenge ideas constructively, paired with openness to diverse perspectives.
What We Do
idealo is one of Europe's leading online comparison platforms for products, helping consumers make the best purchasing decisions by providing transparency in e-commerce. Headquartered in Berlin, it is one of the largest e-commerce websites in Germany and operates across several European markets. The company is majority-owned by the transatlantic media company Axel Springer SE and focuses on providing high-quality traffic and sales drivers for its partners.
