Product Manager (12-Month FTC)

DEPOP; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce platform in London is seeking an experienced Product Manager to drive the Search Retrieval team's roadmap. You will collaborate with Engineering and Machine Learning partners to enhance user discovery experiences. The ideal candidate will possess strong organisational skills, ML product experience, and a data-driven mindset. Join this vibrant team to influence key product strategies and deliver exceptional user solutions.

Benefits

Health and mental wellbeing support

Work-life balance initiatives

Flexible working options

Paid parental leave

Learning and growth budgets

Free shipping on Depop sales

Qualifications

• Must have experience in product management with ML products.
• Logical and articulate with excellent communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills and a sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute product vision and strategy.
• Prioritise team resources to achieve key objectives.
• Align with stakeholders on team direction and progress.

Skills

Experience as a Product Manager working with ML products

Excellent communication skills

Strong sense of ownership

Logical and articulate

Great commercial awareness

Job description

Overview

The Search Retrieval team is central to Depop's discovery experience, guiding buyers toward the most relevant listings and powering a retrieval platform used across multiple areas of the Product. As Product Manager, you'll drive the team's roadmap, collaborating with Engineering and Machine Learning partners to build the systems that enable personalised, high-quality discovery for our users.

Responsibilities

• Strategy and roadmap: Work with technical co-partners to define and execute a product vision and strategy. You won't be expected to come up with all the ideas, but instead facilitate excellent ideation, prioritisation and decision making with your technical co-partners. Work with Product Analysts to define and monitor the key metrics for your team and ensure ongoing experimentation best practices.
• Deciding what to build: Prioritise your team's time and resources to achieve the maximum progress on key quarterly objectives, ensuring efforts are directed where they matter most. Interact with stakeholders throughout the business to understand and prioritise their retrieval needs. Use user research and rigorous data analysis to make informed decisions about what to and what not to build and ensure this technical team remains connected to the needs of our users.
• Keeping everyone aligned and informed: Aligning with the Product lead and the functional leadership on the priorities and strategic goals of the wider "Match" product area (Recommendations, Search, Ranking teams). Keeping all stakeholders informed about team direction and progress. Motivating the team and giving them the context they need to reach their potential.

Requirements

• Must haves: Experience as a Product Manager working with ML products, or in a highly relevant technical field. Excellent communication skills. You are logical, articulate, and can work collaboratively with highly technical stakeholders. A strong sense of ownership and be highly organised. You create order in the world around you and get huge satisfaction from delivering the highest quality features. Beginner's Mindset is one of our core values. We're a learning organisation, and a group of people that thrive on getting better every day. Your curiosity and thirst for knowledge are more important than what you know already. Great commercial awareness. You think constantly about driving business results, and base your decisions in data, user interviews, and rigorous analysis.
• Nice-to-haves: Experience working in a marketplace business. Experience working in Search, Recommendations or Ranking. Technical background, for example, engineering or machine learning. A love of fashion, especially if you're already part of the Depop community.

Benefits and information

• Health + Mental Wellbeing: PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa; Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space; Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative; Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support; Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting.
• Work/Life Balance: 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days; 1 company-wide day off per quarter; Impact hours: Up to 2 days additional paid leave per year for volunteering; Fully paid 4 week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop.
• Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options (role dependent). All offices are dog-friendly. Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries.
• Family Life: 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees; IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave.
• Learn + Grow: Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more; Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees.
• Your Future: Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary); Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings.
• Depop Extras: Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK. Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards.