Lead Product Manager - Retailer Experience

About us:

At Ankorstore, we believe that local independent retailers have a great impact on the souls of our cities and villages, and we believe that local retailers will flourish even more if they are provided with great tools and exceptional shopping conditions. With this in mind, we are building the largest marketplace that connects authentic European brands with thousands of independent retailers. We are extremely proud to be able to support these amazing entrepreneurs every day. 

Ankorstore was founded in 2019 and has recently closed a 250 million € Series C funding. We have over 450 employees, already present in 28 countries and want to continue to scale strongly.

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

The biggest pain point that retailers have is to find the right products to sell in their shops, with the best buying conditions, and the Retailer tribe plays a central role in solving that pain point. The team’s mission is to improve our retailers’ lifetime value, by increasing our conversion rate, and improving our product market fit to be the best procurement solutions for all retailers’ verticals, and all types of purchases.

As lead Product Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Grow the lifetime value of our retailers by at least a x2 factor in 2022.
• Build, and manage at least 3 squads in 2022, and more in the future. Ankorstore is growing so fast, your only limitation will be your capacity to build a strategy & hire a team to deliver it
• Define the 1 year vision & strategy of the tribe, along with the quarterly OKRs. Your work & deep knowledge of users should even influence the global Ankorstore strategy.
• Coach PMs. From their user research, analytics, hypothesis testing, project management… Your team should be recognize as a best-in-class Product team

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 require:

• 8 years of experience as a Product Manager in retail experience
• Experience in hiring and managing Product Managers
• Good 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
• Have an analytical mind, looking to find the core of a problem
• Ability to prioritise work based on impact and cost while considering the company strategy and overall vision
• Experience working in a cross-functional team of software engineers and product designers
• Ability to seek all kinds of data that can help in making the right product decisions

Other qualities that would add value:

• Experience in e-commerce or SaaS companies or early startups to scale ups are preferred
• Experience in marketplace
• Entrepreneurial mindset

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, or remote anywhere in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Spain
• Competitive package