Senior Product Manager, Akeneo
Salary not provided
Senior and Expert level
London
Paris
Product Experience Management solutions
Posted today
Product Experience Management solutions
201-500 employees
B2BMarketingSaaSSales
Posted today
Salary not provided
Senior and Expert level
London
Paris
201-500 employees
B2BMarketingSaaSSales
Company mission
To fundamentally disrupt the product information category and better serve the rapidly growing needs of modern omnichannel brands and retailers.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 5+ years of experience in product management, with a strong background in SaaS products
- Track Record: You have a history of creating products that improve customer experience and grow market share
- Adaptability: You thrive in a fast-paced, impact-focused environment and can handle uncertainties and changing requirements
- Ambition: You want to grow and be at the forefront of Akeneo’s latest and fastest-growing product
- Domain knowledge: this is not required but having some knowledge of the product data ecosystem (PIM, MDM, DAM, …) is a plus
What the job involves
- Akeneo is the Product Experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM), creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere
- We are seeking a talented Senior Product Manager who drives meaningful impact and delivers results to join us
- Our organisation is structured similarly to AWS, with each Product Line operating independently under a Single Threaded Owner (STO)
- Within each Product Line, Impact Teams—led by an Impact Owner—have the autonomy to define their own processes and methodologies
- These cross-functional teams, typically composed of around eight engineers, designers, and PMs, collaborate closely to drive meaningful outcomes while maintaining autonomy and full ownership of their work
- Your role will contribute to the Supplier Data Manager (SDM) Impact Team, working on easing the brand/distributor relationship
- You will report directly to the team's Impact Owner, who is a Senior Engineering Leader and will collaborate closely with teams of engineers, product designer, STO and external stakeholders
- Customer & stakeholder engagement: Build strong relationships with customers, distributors, and internal stakeholders. Advocate for user needs while balancing technical feasibility and product profitability
- Market & competitive analysis: Monitor market trends, competitor offerings, and industry best practices to identify opportunities that will strengthen our position and product portfolio
- Data-driven decision-making: Define and track success metrics, using qualitative and quantitative data to inform product decisions. Communicate insights, risks, and progress effectively across the organization
- Manage the release process: work hand-in-hand with our Product Marketing Manager to prepare for releases, communicate on new features and enable the rest of Akeneo
- User Research and Testing: work hand-in-hand with our Product Designer to conduct user research to deeply understand customer needs, pain points, and workflows. Plan and execute user testing to validate hypotheses and gather feedback on prototypes and new features
- Strategic planning: work with the STO to define our long-term strategy and make sure our day-to-day progress is aligned with this strategy
Application process
- All interviews will be conducted remotely and ideally within two weeks, depending on your availability. We are asking for a total of around six hours of your time. There are no take home exercises, coding tests or surprises. We will not continue the process if you do not pass a step, this is to save you time and effort. If we decide not to move forward we will provide you with feedback
- Screening
- Phone Screen: If your application has caught our attention, you will receive an invitation to a short conversation with one of our Talent Acquisition Specialists, where you'll learn more about the role and about Akeneo. You will be asked to send through “Product You Are Proud Of" which will be used to validate that you are able to start the interview loop and during the technical interview to aid discussion and deep dive into decision making
- Hiring Manager Chat: This short interview will allow you to go in more depth into what the role entails and discuss your experience and skills
- General Interview Loop: These interviews ensure you are qualified to join Akeneo and that you have what the Product Line needs at this point in time. Before each interview you will receive an email detailing the types of questions you will be asked and who your interviewers will be so you can research and prepare
- Technical Deep Dive: You will be asked to bring “Product You Are Proud Of" to discuss and go deep within the 90 minutes interview with a Senior PM or Product Director. You will also discuss how you would solve an Akeneo specific complex problem with limited knowledge and understanding. The person is looking to see how you think critically, expose gaps, navigate ambiguity, focus on impact and execute
- Behavioral Deep Dive: You will spend 90 minutes with a cross-functional panel of peers. They are looking to see what it's like to work with you and how you add to our values. This interview relies heavily on examples from your past, so take some time to think back and write down some so you are best prepared. We want to emphasise that the purpose of this interview is not to "test" you. Instead, our goal is to create an environment and opportunities for you to express yourself fully, allowing us to understand your years of experience in a short timeframe. We encourage you to think of the interviewers as collaborators, there to ensure you have every opportunity to shine. We're genuinely interested in learning about your experiences, thought processes, and approaches to problem-solving
- Team Interviews: The general interview loop will assess your technical skills, personality and how you can add to our culture. During this process we will gain an understanding of where you fit best within the organisation and will select the team
- Area-STO & Impact Owner: You will spend an hour with the leaders of the team. They will discuss what they are working on, some of the challenges they are facing and will be keen to see how you might be able to help
- Team Meet: Your entire team will want to meet you at this point for an hour to see if you are someone that they would like to work with and learn from. The team will be curious about you as a person and what you want for your next chapter
- Offer
Our take
Based in France and Boston, Akeneo is a provider of product experience management (PXM) and product information management (PIM) solutions. The platform enables businesses with products to create growth opportunities by delivering product experience.
The company is trusted by leading global brands, including PUMA, Canon USA and Giant Tiger. The appeal of Akeneo’s services is its enablement of retailers to activate product experiences across all communication channels, rather than having to manage catalogs using spreadsheets or an out-dated ERP.
In 2022, Akeneo raised further funding, which was invested in accelerating the product development roadmap and expanding its strategic partnerships. Continued investment and partnerships bring Akeneo ever closer to its goal of best serving the growing needs of modern omnichannel brands and retailers.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2022
$135m
SERIES D
Sep 2019
$46m
SERIES C
Total funding: $195.9m
Company benefits
- 🌎 Diverse, cross-cultural team
- 🎉 Annual All Staff gathering week, office parties, team offsites
- 🧳 Once a year, travel to another office location for a period of 2 weeks
- 👋 Top-notch 8-week onboarding program for new teammates, including live presentations, online courses you can take at your own pace, and an exhaustive checklist with all the resources, calls-to-action and support contacts for a smooth integration into the company
- ⏰ Flexible working hours, global home office policy
- 🧘 Individual and confidential coaching sessions with a mental health practitioner of your choice
- 🔊 Best-in-class communication and collaboration tools: Slack, Notion, Google Suite, Jira, GitHub..
- 💻 Choice of a Mac or a Windows laptop
- 💸 Personal remote allowance to maximize your home office environment
- 🎫 Participation in in-house events welcoming external guests (ie. Meetups) or industry events
- 🧑🏫 Group and individual training opportunities
- 👨💻 Attendance at the yearly business or tech conference of your choice
Company values
- Humility - We want to become better at what we do, and we acknowledge that we are not there yet
- Innovation - We take pride in developing an open-source solution. This makes our solution powerful, open to everyone, and we are very attentive to our code quality
- Benevolence - We believe everyone is doing their best, and we commit to helping each other in a friendly way, with an ‘open door’ policy
- Openness - We love hearing new ideas and opinions. We are always excited to welcome new employees with different backgrounds who can share their experiences and challenge our status quo
- Beer - We do serious business without taking ourselves too seriously. We love to get together and share fun moments at work
Company HQ
Dervallières-Zola, Nantes, France
Articles
Leadership
Benoit Jacquemont
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously served as CTO for Smile Group.
Fred de Gombert
(President & Co-Founder)Previously founded and acted as CEO for Manalee. Served as Pre-sales Manager & eCommerce Director for Smile.
Yoav Kutner
(Advisor & Co-Founder)Recent co-founded and acts as CEO for both MageCore and Oro. Previously co-founded and acted as CTO for both Magento and Varien.
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