Product Manager, Category Management

Vinted; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 84.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading company in the second-hand fashion sector seeks a Product Manager for Category Management in Berlin. You will be responsible for developing product strategies to improve how users find and list items. The role blends analytic skills and cross-team leadership, making impactful changes to enhance user experience in a thriving C2C marketplace environment.

Leistungen

30 days of paid annual leave

Mental health support through Mindletic app

Home office support with personal budget for furniture

Daily lunch allowance

Frequent team-building events

Subsidised gym membership

Life and disability insurance

Opportunity to work outside the EU for 90 days

Dog-friendly office

Individual Learning Budget for professional growth

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience in product or program management within e-commerce or marketplaces.
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable defining metrics and creating dashboards.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-team initiatives.

Aufgaben

• Develop and maintain a rolling 12-month roadmap for new category launches.
• Collaborate with leadership to align on objectives and success criteria.
• Identify high-impact category problems through marketplace analysis and user research.

Kenntnisse

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Cross-team leadership

Ausbildung

Experience in product or program management

Jobbeschreibung

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Product Manager, Category Management, Berlin

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Client:

Vinted

Location:

Berlin, Germany

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Expiry Date:

17.08.2025

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Brief info about Vinted

Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with millions of registered members spanning 20+ markets in Europe and North America. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.

Vinted Go launched in , with a focus on developing products and solutions for more seamless shipping and delivery across Europe. Vinted Go has connected more than 40 carriers and more than , PUDO points across Europe to support the delivery of millions of parcels per year.

The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace and Vinted Go, is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2, employees. It is backed by six leading venture capital firms: Accel, Burda Principal Investments, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sprints Capital.

Information about the position

Youll be the driving force behind making Vinteds marketplace categories smarter and easier to use. As the Product Manager for Category Management, youll shape the future of how buyers and sellers find and list items by leading big-picture projects like launching new categories, improving how product details are organized, and rolling out new systems for managing inventory. Youll work across teamsengineering, design, analytics, and moreto turn ideas into real improvements that make shopping on Vinted faster, smoother, and more enjoyable for millions of users. If you love solving complex problems and creating products that truly impact peoples experience, this role is for you.

In this position, youll

• Develop and maintain a rolling 12-month roadmap for new category launches, structural optimisations, and metadata innovations (e.g., SKU support).
• Collaborate with domain and marketplace leadership to align on objectives and success criteria.
• Identify high-impact category problems through marketplace analysis, user research, and input from vertical teams.
• Validate opportunities through taxonomy changes, prototyping, and close work with interface-owning teams.
• Translate opportunities into clear problem statements and prioritise initiatives based on capacity, member impact, and business goals.
• Maintain a transparent backlog of category and metadata improvements.
• Lead cross-domain programs by creating lightweight project structuresdefining scope, milestones, dependencies, and managing risks.
• Coordinate delivery with engineering, design, analytics, search, localisation, trust & safety, and commercial teams.
• Serve as the single point of contact for cross-domain questions related to category product challenges.
• Facilitate decisions on minimum viable solutions for category requirements (e.g., required vs. optional listing attributes).
• Escalate unresolved trade-offs with evidence and recommendations to domain leadership.
• Define leading and lagging metrics (e.g., entity performance, time-to-first-click, attribute completeness) for initiatives.
• Partner with Decision Scientists to build dashboards and analyze outcomes.
• Communicate progress and results to stakeholders regularly through updates and post-launch reports.
• Continuously improve by staying updated on marketplace trends and category management best practices.
• Gather feedback from taxonomists, analysts, and member-facing teams to refine processes and tooling.

About you

• Proven experience in product or program management within e-commerce, marketplace, or catalog-focused domains.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-team initiatives without direct engineering ownership.
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable defining metrics and creating dashboards.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesise technical and business perspectives.
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience launching or optimising product categories or verticals at scale.
• Background in metadata design, search relevance, or structured data workflows.
• Exposure to AI-driven classification, recommendation systems, or SKU management in retail.
• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 30 days of paid annual leave
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to for home workplace furniture
• A daily lunch allowance
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• A subsidised gym membership with ClassPass or Urban Sports Club
• A subsidised pension plan provided by Vinted
• Life and disability insurance provided
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
• A dog-friendly office

Working at Vinted

Individual Learning Budget

We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.

Hybrid Work

Weve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. Its up to you and your team to decide on the exact days youll spend working together in person.

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

The salary range for this position is 84, - ,gross per year.