Product Manager - Checkout

METRO Digital Romania is the tech product-led company of METRO, the leading international specialist for wholesale and food trade. With longstanding experience in global wholesale, METRO.digital develops customized IT services and products worldwide for all METRO countries. Located in Germany and Romania, the METRO.digital employees are working continuously on one goal: digitalizing the wholesale industry.

Minimum of 2 years of experience in leading agile projects as a product manager or equivalent
Experience in managing products in an Agile environment
A good understanding of the tech stack and product life cycle - start-to-end app development process
Always wanting to deliver the best measurable results
Contributor mindset, motivated by co-operation
Good time management, able to set up priorities and to monitor progress
Ability to balance effort/costs/resources with benefits & gains for our customers
Ability to build credibility in relationships with stakeholders and team members
Support the agile team with business knowledge

Product Management DNA @Metro.Digital:

Pragmatically building the product vision and roadmap
Use experimentation techniques to validate assumptions
Continuous discovery focus, user-centricity
Ability to build credibility in relationships with stakeholders and team members
Ability to act FAST! Relentlessly reduce the Cost of Delay
Prepared and willing to gracefully articulate a ‘No’ with the appropriate arguments.
Be the expert on market trends & industry best practices
Maintain a critical perspective to drive revisions and extensions for existing products and solutions.
Data-driven - relies on metrics and concrete results to define success
Get the most out of the product team

Engineering understanding:

Knowledge and understanding of technical engineering best practices (e.g., test-driven development, continuous integration, etc.)
Familiarity with cloud-based technologies and microservice architectures
A basic idea about (at least) one programming language, would be a big plus
Advanced knowledge of product development and Agile methodology
Collaborate with the UX/UI team to research, develop and validate the UI flows to be implemented
Support the agile team with business information
Fluent in English both written and spoken
High willingness to travel in Romania and abroad up to 30% of the time.

As a Product Manager, you will be the essential link between the business owners and a dedicated agile team.

Working with us means that YOU are the mastermind who knows what will make the business prosper, what’s technically possible and how to make it happen, leveraging the team's capabilities.

Once you’ve got the right vision, you have the autonomy to create your product strategy, draft a roadmap, set priorities and objectives and enable your agile team to make it happen, all of this at eye level with our customers.

Purpose of your Product:

The Checkout User Management product team builds the UX an UI of the future METRO checkout solution that will be deployed in 24 countries and more then 700 stores locations.

We have developed and continue to improve an omni-channel Point of Sale checkout solution that runs on any device, allowing not only hardware flexibility, but also the possibility to check out from any corner of the store in a friendly, secure and innovative way.

The product team works closely and gets constant feedback from its 16.000 users.

In return, the users expect to interact with a user-friendly, intuitive and efficient GUI, enabling, in the end, a frictionless checkout experience for our customers.

Some of the interesting topics that will keep you busy, are related to: leading the UX & UI team for the checkout solutions, user roles & rights, user authentication & permissions, stores customizing, self-customization platform.

Our general Benefits:

Work life-balance: flexible working time, work from home forever, celebrate your birthday with a free day
Personal growth: trainings in the area of soft, technical and business skills, free Bookster account, opportunity to learn and work with a variety of technologies
Well-being: online sport activities, fitness centers discounts, health and life insurance, private pension, lunch tickets
Working mode: multicultural, self-organizing teams, agile environment