Global E-commerce Platform Lead (Headless/Composable)

Compunnel Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel, Inc. seeks a Senior Technical Product Manager with 8+ years shaping consumer-facing e-commerce experiences. You will own the end-to-end website experience and platform, translating strategy into a scalable, globally deployable roadmap.

You will lead cross-functional teams, drive platform modernization, manage dependencies, and ensure performance, accessibility, and privacy requirements across regions and brands.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical product management experience for consumer-facing ecommerce websites or digital storefronts.
• Subject matter expertise across storefront domains including discovery, on-site search, category and product detail experiences, cart and checkout.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical product definition for the website experience and platform, translating strategy into a technically coherent and well-sequenced platform roadmap.
• Shape product strategy through technical insight by identifying new opportunities, constraints, costs, and platform dependencies.
• Drive platform coherence across country-specific site experiences and move toward a configurable product for new markets and brands.
• Own storefront surface areas including home/landing pages, category/search results, product detail, cart, checkout, and authenticated accounts.
• Ensure storefront experiences integrate with content, merchandising, personalization, and identity capabilities.
• Build and maintain relationships with external partners and vendors across commerce platforms, search, content, and CDN/edge services.
• Partner with Commercial, Product, and Engineering teams to translate goals into a global roadmap.
• Balance foundational platform requirements with market-specific use cases.
• Identify opportunities, establish ROI, and prioritize initiatives.
• Ensure roadmaps account for technical health, performance, scalability, and dependencies across functions.

Skills

8+ years experience

e-commerce

cross-functional leadership

data-driven decisions

stakeholder management

Tools

APIs

CDN/edge services

A/B testing platforms

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Product Manager with 8+ years of experience, including direct ownership of consumer-facing e-commerce websites or digital storefront products. The role will own the end-to-end website experience and platform, translating consumer and commercial strategy into a technically coherent, globally scalable roadmap. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in storefront experiences, platform modernization, dependencies, non-functional requirements, data-driven prioritization, and cross-functional product leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical product definition for the website experience and platform, translating consumer and commercial strategy into a technically coherent and well-sequenced platform roadmap.

• Shape product strategy through technical insight by identifying new opportunities, structural constraints, cost considerations, and platform dependencies.

• Drive platform coherence across fragmented, country-specific site experiences and move toward a configurable product that can be adopted by new markets and brands without bespoke engineering.

• Own storefront experience surfaces including home and landing pages, category and search results, product detail, cart, checkout, and authenticated account experiences.

• Ensure storefront experiences integrate effectively with content, merchandising, personalization, and identity capabilities.

• Build and maintain relationships with external partners and vendors across commerce platforms, search and merchandising, product content, ratings and reviews, content management, experimentation, and CDN/edge services.

• Partner with Commercial, Product, and Engineering teams to translate commercial goals and platform vision into a global roadmap.

• Balance foundational platform requirements with market-specific and campaign-specific use cases.

• Identify opportunities, establish ROI, and prioritize and negotiate initiatives that support product vision and strategy.

• Ensure roadmaps account for technical health, performance, scalability, and dependencies across functions and adjacent product roadmaps.

• Identify and manage dependencies across order management, product content, identity and loyalty, customer care, fraud and payments, tax, and third-party data feeds.

• Uncover dependencies early, establish clear ownership, and treat incomplete dependency mapping as a product risk.

• Reduce dependencies through clear contracts, stable interfaces, asynchronous integration, and loosely coupled designs.

• Sequence delivery around remaining dependencies, negotiate commitments with dependent teams, and make critical paths and assumptions visible.

• Build strong working relationships with dependent teams by providing context and lead time while escalating unresolved conflicts through appropriate channels.

• Establish and enforce non-functional product requirements covering accessibility, site performance, SEO, and analytics instrumentation.

• Ensure WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility requirements are incorporated into acceptance criteria and support compliance with applicable accessibility regulations.

• Define Core Web Vitals and page-level performance budgets and ensure they are validated before release.

• Establish technical SEO requirements covering URL structure, canonicalization, structured data, redirects, and indexability.

• Ensure analytics and measurement requirements are defined as part of product requirements rather than retrofitted after launch.

• Partner with stakeholders to identify business needs, desired outcomes, value, and appropriate product tradeoffs.

• Provide strategic recommendations for addressing business challenges and determine when tradeoffs are preferable to additional scope.

• Partner with Technology teams to deliver the roadmap and achieve projected business value.

• Represent the team in reviews with partners and senior leadership to align resources, priorities, and time to value.

• Establish a consistent prioritization process and clearly communicate the website roadmap, objectives, priorities, and product decisions.

• Use conversion funnels, site performance, search and browse behavior, experimentation results, and other relevant data to inform product decisions.

• Develop data-driven narratives that demonstrate commercial impact and product value.

• Track value delivered, adoption, performance, and execution against the end-to-end roadmap and adjust priorities as needed.

• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle, including operational readiness and post-launch quality.

• Benchmark capabilities against industry trends and best practices.

• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes in partnership with engineering and architecture teams.

• Define OKRs and scope and prioritize initiatives based on forecasted impact.

• Act as an agent of change by challenging existing approaches and adopting methodologies that improve outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical product management experience, including direct ownership of consumer-facing e-commerce website or digital storefront products.

• Subject matter expertise across storefront domains including discovery, on-site search, category and product detail experiences, cart and checkout conversion, content and merchandising workflows, and authenticated account experiences.

• Hands-on experience with commerce platform migration or replatforming initiatives.

• Experience launching or onboarding additional countries or brands onto a shared platform.

• Demonstrated ability to identify dependencies before they become schedule risks and simplify dependencies through improved architecture and integration approaches.

• Ability to interpret integration and data-flow diagrams, understand upstream and downstream consumers, and participate effectively in technical design discussions.

• Working knowledge of accessibility standards and remediation, performance budgets, Core Web Vitals, technical SEO, localization, and privacy and consent requirements such as GDPR.

• Working knowledge of modern storefront architecture, including headless and composable commerce, APIs, integration patterns, CDN and edge behavior, feature flags, and progressive rollout strategies.

• Ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, evaluate tradeoffs, and assess new opportunities with internal and external partners.

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to support assumptions, recommendations, and product decisions.

• Experience designing and interpreting A/B tests and experimentation results.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products and projects across multiple time zones.

• Experience working with vendor and partner teams.

• Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to challenge senior stakeholders and clearly explain product and technical decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with globally scalable digital commerce platforms.

• Experience working with headless or composable commerce architectures.

• Experience with progressive delivery, feature flags, experimentation platforms, and CDN/edge technologies.

• Experience with international market expansion and multi-brand platform adoption.

• Experience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple technology and business stakeholders.