Senior Principal Product Manager – Client Foundations Platform and Tracking (all genders)

Role: Senior Principal Product Manager – Client Foundations Platform and Tracking Responsibilities: - Define & Drive Platform Strategy: Envision, own, and execute the multi-year product roadmap for the Client Foundations Platform (RE Core, Application Operations & Productivity, and Tracking Platform), aligning technical capabilities with Zalando’s overarching CX and AI strategy. - Elevate Developer Velocity & Platform Health: Champion the developer experience for internal engineering teams by delivering robust CI/CD infrastructure, Over-the-Air (OTA) update capabilities, cross-platform UI frameworks, and standardized renderer APIs. - Pioneer Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) Tracking & Governance: Lead the transition from manual, legacy client-side tracking to an automated, module-centric tracking architecture. Integrate declarative tracking natively into UI modules and leverage server-side data enrichment to eliminate engineering friction and drastically reduce time-to-insight. - Enable AI & Real-Time Personalization: Drive low-latency (<10s) customer event delivery and feature engineering pipelines (integrated with Databricks, Event bus, and Central Feature Store) to power mid-session ML models, recommendation engines, and agentic commerce experiences. - Cross-Functional Leadership & Alignment: Partner seamlessly with senior leaders across Engineering, Data & Analytics, Design, and Business domain teams. Serve as a force multiplier by establishing strong data governance, clear platform contracts, and transparent cost-attribution models. Qualifications: - Senior Platform PM Experience at Scale: 8+ years of technical product management experience leading large-scale developer platforms, client-side UI frameworks, or enterprise data/analytics infrastructure in a major e-commerce or marketplace environment. - Client Architecture Fluency: Deep understanding of mobile (iOS/Android) and Web client architectures, cross-platform frameworks (React Native), Server-Driven UI (SDUI), and modern web/app rendering engines. - Data & Telemetry Expertise: Proven track record of managing high-throughput event ingestion pipelines, data contracts, and client-side telemetry instrumentation. Experience powering AI/ML feature stores is a major plus. - Strategic & Operational Vision: Successfully spearheaded complex system transformations—such as Greenfield platform migrations, legacy system deprecations, and schema governance automation—while managing risk and maintaining operational excellence. - Customer & Developer Obsession: Excel at converting internal developer pain points and data consumer needs into scalable, self-service platform tools. - Masterful Stakeholder Management: Collaborative leader capable of inspiring cross-functional engineering and data science teams, driving executive alignment, and communicating complex technical paradigms to diverse audiences. What We Offer: - Employee shares program - 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Zalando Lounge, discounts from external partners - 2 paid volunteering days per year - 27 days of vacation a year to start - Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement) - Family services, including counseling and support - Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass) - Mental health support and coaching available - Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review