Principal Product Manager Growth Platform - Lounge by Zalando (all genders)

Role: Principal Product Manager for Growth Platform at Lounge by Zalando. Lead product behind marketing technology, data hubs, messaging platform, AI‑driven marketing, and related infrastructure. Responsibilities: - Define and execute product strategy for the growth platform, including data hubs, messaging infrastructure, feed and content pipelines, and automation services. - Deliver an autonomous‑marketing engine with AI agents for paid, SEO, and CRM campaigns, including evaluation pipelines, guardrails, and incrementality measurement. - Build a zero‑touch operational backbone to automate campaign quality assurance and increase revenue from automated systems. - Represent product in architecture‑level decisions with Principal Engineers, translating technical trade‑offs for commercial leadership and managing strategic vendors. - Ensure GDPR‑compliant personalization and messaging by design. - Produce product artifacts (PRFAQs, solution designs, KPI frameworks), mentor product managers, and raise the technical fluency of the product team. Qualifications: - Deep hands‑on experience with modern marketing technology (ESP/CRM platforms such as Braze), customer data platforms, product feeds, campaign automation, and server‑side tracking. - Proven track record managing marketing or data platforms as products, turning infrastructure into roadmaps and business decisions. - Technical fluency to participate in architecture discussions (APIs, event streams, data models, build‑vs‑buy) without being an engineer. - Experience shipping AI/ML‑powered products (LLM, personalization, triggers) to production and understanding of evaluation, guardrails, and observability. - Strong experimentation rigor with hypothesis‑driven development, A/B testing at scale, and KPI‑driven prioritisation. - Excellent bilingual communication, able to translate deep technical details into executive summaries. - Ability to craft strategic documents and work autonomously in ambiguous problem spaces. - Experience building high‑volume consumer products serving millions of users across multiple channels and countries. What We Offer: - Employee shares program. - 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, plus external partner discounts. - 2 paid volunteering days per year. - 27 days of vacation per year (starting for full‑time employees). - Relocation assistance (subject to prior agreement). - Family services, health and wellbeing options, mental health support and coaching. - Training platform and biannual peer‑to‑peer review.