Director of Product Operational Excellence

Daniele , Director Product

Director of Product Operational Excellence

You’ll be joining one of the world?s largest privately owned real estate tech companies and a subsidiary of Axel Springer.

Our mission is to unlock everyone?s perfect place! You’ll work across some of Europe?s best known digital real estate brands including : ?

Meilleurs Agents, ?? Groupe SeLoger, ?? Immoweb, ?? Immowelt, ?? Housell and ?? Yad2.

This position is open for candidates in Berlin , Brussels or Paris .

WHAT WE DO IN PRODUCT OPERATIONS

The product operation team mission is to support the product teams (Product Managers, Product Designers?) in delivering the most valuable products by :

• enabling product teams to maximise their impact and base their decisions on insights
• driving operational excellence through best-in-class product development processes and tools
• organising product communications and rituals
• growing the teams talent and engagement.

The product operation team is distributed in 3 different countries (Germany, France, Belgium) allowing us to keep the pulse from the team and understand where they need support.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO CAN :

As Director, your responsibility would be to define and oversee execution of the Product Operations strategy with the Senior Director of Product and Tech Operations.

Furthermore, you would be responsible to coordinate, mentor and support your team in the following areas :

PRACTICES & COMMUNICATION

• Own the creation and ongoing improvement of practices, processes, tools, and documentation standards, ensuring efficiency and also helping maintain their relevance and effectiveness, creating a foundation for continuous improvement and agility.
• Facilitating product cross-team collaboration through dedicated events and rituals (on premise / remote), tooling, or any other activities in collaboration with other teams.
• Explore strategies to expose our plans, documentation, communication and demos in the most effective way. Enhancing the accessibility and ensuring information is easily digestible and understandable for all stakeholders.

STRATEGY & PLANNING

• Establish an efficient planning process, aligned with the org, ensuring a seamless translation of company objectives into a tangible roadmap, fostering clarity and alignment across all teams.
• Enhance our approach to tracking features and handling enhancement requests, improving our efficiency but also promoting better collaboration and transparency, leading to more successful product development cycles.
• Empower Product Managers with robust data, while ensuring data integrity and organisation. This support enables better product decisions, contributing to the overall success of our products.

TOOLING

Explore the utilization of available tools for roadmapping, planning, and feature tracking activities as an opportunity to enhance our capabilities, improving overall efficiency and accuracy in our product development processes.

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT CRAFT

• Actively supporting product teams to implement new skills and product management best practices (framework and methodology application, retrospectives, continuous improvement).
• Striving to continuously raise the bar of product management excellence.
• Supporting product onboarding program (in collaboration with People team).

ADDITIONAL LEADERSHIP PRODUCT OPS DUTIES

• Lead the Product Operations function on a day-to-day basis and build strong relationships with key stakeholders (including C-level) at both central and regional levels, influencing their decisions and achieving company goals
• Act as a central point of contact between the Product organisation and its global stakeholders
• Identify and act on system-wide patterns creating operational challenges and then prioritize and orchestrate the work needed to solve them

AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS :

• Manager with 7+ years experience in product management, with significant exposure / experience in (strategic company) product planning and 5+ years in product operations or similar function across a large international and diverse product and tech organisation (500+)
• Deep understanding of product management best practices and frameworks
• Strong analytical skills with a keen eye for process improvement.
• Comfortable working with unknowns and shifting priorities
• Comfortable with, and experienced in coaching other product managers
• Able to work on high-level initiatives as well as do deep into the day-to-day operations
• Collaborative and open to new ideas
• English fluent (french, german or dutch is a plus)
• Lean and Agile mindset

WHAT WE OFFER YOU :

• A professional but friendly and stimulating working environment
• Opportunities for personal development in line with business growth (trainings, conferences, )
• Working on apps in a quality-first mindset
• We are one of the leading PropTech platforms in Europe. If you?ve ever rented or purchased a property then you may have used one of our classified portals.

This is a great time to join us to help elevate our AVIV brand.

• The opportunity to work hybrid within our operating footprint with international travel to our locations in France, Belgium and Germany.
• The autonomy to work in a style which suits you to be the most productive
• The freedom to tell us which tools you need to be successful in your job so we can set you up to make it happen.
• Modern workplace and a top location with good public transport connections

At AVIV, we are an equal opportunities employer and an organisation where everyone is welcomed to be their authentic selves.

We strongly encourage individuals with visible and non visible disabilities, all educational backgrounds, people from minority backgrounds, those from the LGBTQIA+ community and parents and carers to apply.

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, or wish to discuss part time or flexible working requirements, please let us know.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example she / her / hers, he / him / his, they / them / theirs, etc).

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