Senior Product Manager, Catawiki
Search & Ranking
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2 days a week in office
Online auctioning for special objects
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Online auctioning for special objects
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide an exciting and seamless experience to customers for buying and selling special, hard-to-find objects.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5 years of product management experience and have had demonstrated success defining product roadmaps specifically for personalization, product recommendations, search or other relevant ML-centric products
- Are outcome-driven with a bias towards action, demonstrating the ability to set and achieve ambitious goals
- Possess a sense of urgency and the capability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, delivering results within tight timelines
- Demonstrated decision-making skills, with the ability to make informed and strategic choices while considering both short-term and long-term implications
- Have excellent storytelling abilities, capable of articulating a compelling product vision and strategy to both internal teams and external stakeholders
- Have a strong analytical mindset with the ability to derive actionable insights from data, contributing to data-informed decision-making
- Possesses extensive experience in designing, executing, and analyzing A/B tests and other experimentation methodologies specific to Machine Learning projects. Capable of leveraging data-driven insights to refine and enhance personalization algorithms, ensuring continuous improvement in user engagement and product performance
- Demonstrated a strong technical understanding of machine learning concepts and applications, from the statistical and mathematical foundations to the practical aspects of turning models into product features
- Must be skilled in working alongside machine learning engineers to develop and integrate user-focused personalization features into a product ecosystem, ensuring they are optimized and effectively implemented
- Possess strong business acumen, with the ability to align product strategies with broader business objectives, identify opportunities for revenue growth, and balance user-centric design with commercial priorities to drive impactful results
What the job involves
- Special objects are the last frontier of E-commerce. We need you to conquer this last frontier
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our Personalisation and Machine Learning strategy across ranking and search domains, ensuring a highly tailored and engaging user experience
- You’ll be responsible for the improved relevance of recommended lots across the entire Buyer Journey
- Doing this while owning holistic cross-team and cross-vertical initiatives that aim to deliver the most engaged and personalised experience for Catawiki buyers
- You will collaborate closely with the Search & Ranking team, including engineering, design, marketing, and data science, to deliver innovative personalization features that delight users
- Work with the Search & Ranking team to articulate the Search, Ranking & Personalization vision and set the roadmap
- Understand the strategy of Catawiki and work with internal teams across the organisation to translate this into the most impactful personalization outcomes
- Work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to make sure that the team is meeting the needs of the company’s long and short term goals
- Drive experimentation agenda on our recommendation/ML models, including working with ML engineers to measure quality and assess the potential impact of new machine learning models on customers’ needs
- Lead the integration of personalization features across our user experience, ensuring alignment with the overall product roadmap
- Own metrics on models and personalization performance and collaborate with teams to iterate and optimise features based on feedback and data insights
- Collaborate with design to ensure a user-centric approach to personalization, emphasising seamless integration and a delightful user experience
- You will be joining our Demand vertical where we focus on welcoming users to Catawiki, give them a great onboarding experience, help them find the objects they love and turn them into happy winners
Application process
- Apply directly with an English CV and cover letter
Our take
In the past, it was only possible to purchase special items such as rare coins, antiques, and vintage cars at auctions held at physical locations. These days, many people prefer online auctions, but whilst they provide a wider range of objects for sale, this comes at the cost of proper pricing and quality control. Catawiki provides an expert-regulated online auctioning marketplace where users can browse and bid for special objects easily via the web or mobile app.
The objects listed on Catawiki are curated, valued, and verified by in-house experts, with over 65,000 objects passing through the marketplace every week. In this approach, the company has combined the community knowledge found at traditional auctions with the benefits of digital auctioning platforms, occupying a space that has long remained empty, and avoiding competition from bidding marketplace giants such as eBay.
Catawiki has received good funding in the past, which contributed to it becoming the success it is today. A recent venture has seen the company expand to serve artisanal artists with its handmade products auction series.
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back within 2 weeks
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$157.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2015
$78.9m
SERIES C
Total funding: $247.3m
Company benefits
- Regular fun activities both on and offline e.g summer parties, boat rides and regular team events
- Great secondary benefits including a holiday allowance and a fantastic pension plan paid for by Catawiki
- Hybrid ways of working between home and office. We offer remote and activity-based working, suited to the team and individual responsibilities
- We care about our teams’ wellbeing and offer a holistic wellbeing programme including our Employee Assistance Programme offering clinical services, single-session therapy, wellness support and more
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth
- Provide employees with a 100 EURO Catavoucher upon joining and 50 EURO birthday Catavouchers
- Extra days of annual leave for work anniversaries at 3, 5, 8 and 10 years
- Additional leave allowances for important life events such as moving, engagement & marriage
- Each year Catawikians get an additional day’s leave to Pursue their Passion!
Company values
- Take ownership: We’re continually building. Each and every one of us takes initiative to grow our business
- Delight our customer: We strive to be our customers’ preferred destination in their ongoing search for the special objects that fulfil their passions
- Move in sync: We each play a role in Catawiki’s success and we only succeed if we are successful together
- Be geeky: We embrace new and scalable technologies to be able to lead the offline to online transition of the world of special objects
- Be open: We are always learning and evolving in order to challenge convention. We remain humble, flexible and curious
- Be passionate: We go deep, solve complex problems and innovate in order to be experts in our fields
Company HQ
Westelijk Havengebied, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Marco Jansen
(Co-Founder)Founder and CTO of LastDodo, with experience as Project Manager for ThoughtWorks from 2004 to 2008. Co-founded Catawiki as CTO in 2008.
René Schoenmakers
(Co-Founder)Founder & CEO of LastDodo and of Vipio. Managing Director of Ordina's subsidiaries Wisdom and The Missing Link from 2006 to 2008. Co-founded Catawiki in 2016 as CEO.
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