Head of Product - Brand

About the role:

Ankorstore is a fast growing company that aims to be the best way for retailers to find the best brands and products to sell in their shops.
The biggest pain point that retailers have is to find the right products for their shops. We want to be the best way to solve this need for them. For that, we need an amazing product built by a group of smart and creative Product Managers, Software Engineers, Product Designers, Analysts, Product Marketing Managers, and User Researchers

Another big pain point for our brands is to find new resellers. So our primary mission is to help them grow their network of independent retailers, by giving them visibility & the right tools to have an attractive storefront on Ankorstore’s Marketplace.

The other problem we want to solve for our brand  is to help them keep their existing retailers active and drive more reorders. That’s why we are building a SaaS platform, with a CRM, dashboards, messaging tools, connection to brands existing tools (ERP, CMS, …)... to make it more efficient for brands to manage their retailers, thanks to Ankorstore.

The Brand tribe mission is to solve these problems, and relentlessly improve our catalog size & quality, our brands’ retention, and our brands’ LTV.

As the Head of Product for the brands side of our marketplace, your responsibilities will include:

• Build and manage a team of PMs working with 5 to 10 engineering squads. It will be on you to make your team a best-in-class Product organization.
• Grow our catalog size, making sure we can both onboard 3 to 5x more brands within 1 year, and grow the number of uploaded SKUs per brand
• Drive the Product vision on how to become a no-brainer for brands to use Ankorstore for all their reorders. As you do this, you should increase brands’ LTV by 2 to 3 in 1 year.
• Define the strategy of the tribe, along with the quarterly OKRs. We are a product-driven company, so you will play a central role in the global Ankorstore strategy & success.

As the Product Manager of this product area, you will work closely with the Software Engineers and Product Designers in your team, and synchronise with business partners across Ankorstore such as our product marketing, operations, and sales teams.

You will be running inclusive product discovery activities, from customer research to strong collaboration with our analysts to define strategies and tactics for making your product's vision and goals come true delivering products that are valuable, feasible, usable and viable.

Learning and experimentation are key to how we work. As we are still early in our journey there is a lot to validate to unearth the most impactful opportunities. 

The experience we prefer:

• At least 10 years of experience in Product in Tech.
• Has experience with SaaS platform, ideally also with Marketplaces
• Experience in hiring and managing a team of at least 5 Product Managers
• Proficient spoken/written English skills, as English is the work language
• You can demonstrate how you used user-research to identify customer problems and the best way to solve them.
• Experience owning and driving the building and shipping of product from the ground up to scale

Other qualities that would add value:

• Experience in SaaS companies or early startups to scale ups are preferred
• Comfortable in growing environment
• Has experience with e-commerce, Retai olr Marketplaces

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Benefits & location:

• Working with a very ambitious & mission-driven team backed by powerful VCs (Tiger Global, Bond, Bain Capital, Coatue, Index Ventures, GFC, Alven, Aglae)
• Location can be based in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Stockholm or remote anywhere in the UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Spain
• Competitive package