Product Manager application framework How do you make our customers happy?
How do you make our customers happy?
Together with over 52,000 partners, bol wants to make daily life simpler for 13 million customers. While we are a people-centric organization – we value each unique customer, partner, and colleague – making our ambitions come true requires a huge amount of tech. After all, we’re a product-led retail tech platform, and tech is often the operative word. Want to help engineers get the most out of our tooling? Happy to have you on board!
The biggest challenge
Team Axle makes life easy for our fellow JVM engineers, creating a multiplier effect across over 100 teams. Team Axle delivers a standardized, opinionated framework and implements technical cost and efficiency optimizations for building and running applications. We are a crucial component of the bol tech community. Our internal customers deserve and expect seamless user experience to build and run JVM applications within our IT landscape. How can we design our product so that we all win together?
What you’ll do as Product Manager for the Application Framework
As the Product Manager for Team Axle, you will collaborate closely with the engineering team, product analyst, engineering manager, as well as the architect and tech lead of the Engineering Productivity Group. You are a member of the platform engineering family within the Technical Platform. Together with your peers and the Group Product Manager, you will co-create the product strategy, lead continuous discovery of key opportunities, and advocate for the product’s value across the organization.
To maximize your impact, it’s essential to understand the technical complexities to help the team prioritize tech health and opportunities. We also expect you to adopt product-led best practices and utilize the appropriate processes, tools, and knowledge. The aim is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the ‘how and why’ behind product development and utilize those skills to improve the products we provide to our developers.
- Continuously deepen your understanding of the JVM ecosystem and community, product domain, users' needs, and the product's potential.
- Support the team to identify solutions that enhance product usage and deliver the #1 experience for building and running JVM applications.
- Define and measure product success in collaboration with your team.
- Adopt a 'fail fast' approach, swiftly discerning what works and what doesn't.
- Forge strong relationships with our internal community to foster contributions.
- Inspire the team to think out of the box and build the right solutions at the right time.
3 reasons why this is (not) for you
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- Output over outcomes You don’t want to define or monitor product metrics. Adjusting your roadmap because new data points in a different direction is out of the question; getting the team to change course is impossible.
- Discovery is a spacecraft The only Discovery you like is the Space Shuttle on display in the museum. Exploring strategic opportunities and/or stimulating data-driven decision-making? Nah.
- Own product domain preferred Engaging engineering teams, monitoring their progress, aligning, and enthusing stakeholders? Can somebody please fly in an old-school manager?
- Customer-centered You understand the needs of our internal customers and will happily collaborate with engineers, contributors, stakeholders, and product peers to fulfill those needs. For example, by translating customer insights into actionable strategies, setting team priorities, and rallying stakeholders.
- Visionary strategist You develop and execute on the team’s vision and product strategy, manage research, evaluate results, and prioritize goals like a Greek god.
- At home in a tech-driven setting You love working shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers to deliver the right products. You stay abreast of new technology and leverage this knowledge to propose new product solutions.
This is where you’ll work
At one of the best-known online retail tech platforms in the Netherlands and Belgium. A platform where 13 million customers can choose from over 35 million articles. A platform that helps roughly 52,000 commercial partners run their businesses. And a platform that will never be ‘finished’ because bol has been reinventing retail since 1999, and we always will be. If there’s a better way to do something, we’re working on it! Together with our customers, partners, and over 2,800 colleagues. You will land in the heart of our tech organization, enabling product teams that deliver value to our partners and customers and make bol the go-to shopping destination.
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