Kleinanzeigen is the leading online classifieds market in Germany. An average of more than 50 million ads are available in numerous categories - from children's supplies to electronics to real estate. With more than 36 million users per month, Kleinanzeigen has the widest reach of all online selling platforms in the country. Most of the items traded on Kleinanzeigen are second-hand. In this way, users make an active contribution to sustainability. The Kleinanzeigen market allows companies the opportunity to easily offer their services online. Kleinanzeigen was launched in September 2009 as eBay Kleinanzeigen. Since June 2021, the company has been part of Adevinta, a leading global provider of online classified ads. In May 2023, the name was changed to Kleinanzeigen.

Kleinanzeigen is part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist and sustainability leader with 25+ products in 10 countries.

What you’ll do ​& Who you are

Transactions (Payment & Shipping) is a key enabler for Kleinanzeigen to scale the business and bring convenience and safety to our end-users. We are seeking a professional individual to join our team as a Senior Product Manager - Parental leave cover (d/f/m) who will help us reach the next milestones!

Crafting and growing our transactional offering to enable the platform is key to Kleinanzeigen’s strategic pillars. Your team will be responsible for shaping the experience of our users buying or selling with our transactional features. You will also drive the expansion of our transactional offers and embed them naturally into the existing user flows. Our goal is to make trading on Kleinanzeigen a convenient and seamless experience whether it’s online or offline, with a private or commercial seller.

The role:

Help us grow our transactional business at Kleinanzeigen with your customer centric and business savvy product leadership whilst ensuring a balance between pragmatism and quality.

• Leadership: Together with your Tech Lead and Engineering Manager counterparts, lead a full-stack development team to drive discoveries and deliveries of new features and improvements to the transactional experience. You will ensure clear communication, alignment, and accountability. For this, we expect you will provide servant leadership, fostering team focus, motivation, and timely delivery of key milestones. Oversee your team’s capacities and ensure a sustainable workload.

• Stakeholder Management: Transparent and proactive communication is needed. Translate complex technical concepts into simple, clear terms for non-technical stakeholders, demonstrating the value delivered at every stage. Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure the product delivers optimal value and meets user requirements. Communication also includes managing project updates and reporting, keeping leadership informed on progress, challenges, and opportunities.

• Create and prioritize the product backlog: Define and prioritize the product backlog together with multiple stakeholders based on user needs, business impact, and technical feedback. Design user flows, and create the respective tech epics and tickets in close collaboration with your tech lead counterpart.

• Discovery Management: You facilitate cross-functional projects where you slice a problem into manageable parts, drive the understanding of user needs and, together with your skilled colleagues, develop and test ideas to implement and solve the problem while ensuring product-market-fit.

• Delivery Management: You will own your team’s project timelines, ensuring adherence to deadlines, identifying risks early, and mitigating blockers to maintain progress. You will also facilitate a continuous delivery approach, ensuring smooth, step-by-step releases rather than a single final release, while focusing on iterating and ongoing improvement.

• Roadmapping: Create your team’s roadmap: Scope and break down complex technical deliveries and discoveries into manageable work packages, epics, and tickets. Allow for incremental releases and continuous value delivery to users, while ensuring alignment and commitment from all stakeholders, including developers, business teams and other internal stakeholders (e.g. CS, UX, Data, Legal, Product Teams).

What you should bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.

• Experience in technical product management (Discovery and Delivery), ideally within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

• Proven track record in delivering complex technical projects, managing both technical and business requirements.

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to break down, prioritize and communicate complex tasks effectively.

• Excellent communication skills, capable of bridging the gap between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to define problems and KPIs, collect data, communicate results and arrive at conclusions

• Experience with agile and iterative product development methodologies.

• Ability to inspire and lead cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.

• Ideally hands-on experience with marketplace environments and payment services

• Fluent in English (written and spoken). German at C1 level is a plus.

Benefits

Life at Adevinta comes with its perks! Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits:

• An attractive Base Salary 💸

• Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus) 🏆

• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moon🌛well why not! just make sure you have internet connection! 🌍

• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care ❤️‍

• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow 🌱

On top of these, we also provide a range of locally relevant benefits. Wanna know more? Apply and ask our recruiters! ✨

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.