Senior Product Manager ZEOS Tech Compliance (all genders)

THE ROLE & TEAM

As Zalando transitions from Europes top e-commerce platform to the fashion industrys central hub this presents an exciting opportunity to join our team. With a presence in 23 markets we are connecting customers brands and partners across Europe. Since 2022 ZEOS (Zalandos B2B Logistics) uses the infrastructure that Zalando constructed for itself as a basis to enable merchants to run optimize and grow their business across multiple European markets and sales channels with the vision to become Europes leading logistics ecosystem. We are unlocking fashions growth by providing flexible fulfillment capacities and full access to our European-wide logistics network.

As a Senior Product Manager (Technical Compliance) in the ZEOS Data Team you will report to the Head of Data and play a pivotal role in shaping how technical compliance requirements are translated into scalable product solutions across our systems platforms and partner integrations. This role sits at the intersection of product technology legal privacy and operational execution ensuring that our products and technical landscape meet evolving regulatory obligations while enabling business growth at scale.

You will own and drive the product strategy for technical compliance domains by collaborating closely with engineers architects legal security privacy operations and partner-facing product teams. Your mission is to ensure that compliance requirements are embedded into product design and technical implementation early pragmatically and sustainably whether related to customer data lifecycle retention and deletion API compliance auditability platform controls or regulatory readiness.

This includes managing the end-to-end lifecycle of technical compliance initiatives: from identifying regulatory or internal control needs translating them into clear product requirements prioritizing roadmap investments driving technical implementation and continuously improving compliance capabilities across systems.

Join our diverse and international team where youll make a significant impact on building scalable compliance-by-design capabilities and help shape the future of ZEOS technical foundation as we continue to grow across Europe.

WHAT WED LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Define and Execute Compliance Product Strategy: Develop and drive a clear product strategy for technical compliance topics ensuring alignment with business goals platform scalability and evolving regulatory requirements across multiple markets.

• Translate Regulations into Scalable Product Solutions: Work closely with legal privacy security and engineering teams to transform regulatory and internal compliance requirements into pragmatic technical product solutions that can be implemented across systems and processes.

• Own Technical Compliance Domains End-to-End: Lead product initiatives related to technical compliance topics such as personal data deletion retention controls auditability consent handling platform governance API compliance and technical policy enforcement.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally Across Business and Tech: Partner with engineering teams architects operational stakeholders legal experts and other product managers to ensure compliance solutions are deeply integrated into the broader product ecosystem.

• Balance Compliance Scalability and Business Pragmatism: Prioritize compliance requirements alongside technical feasibility operational impact and business value. Ensuring solutions are sustainable scalable and proportionate.

• Drive Compliance-by-Design Product Thinking: Embed compliance requirements early into product discovery technical design and delivery processes rather than treating them as downstream controls.

• Improve Transparency and Governance: Establish clear documentation decision frameworks and product visibility around compliance topics to support internal alignment external audits and long-term maintainability.

• Anticipate Regulatory and Technical Change: Stay informed on relevant regulatory developments technical standards and industry best practices to proactively evolve our product landscape.

WED LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex system problems where product regulation and architecture meet. We are looking for someone who wants to build compliance capabilities that scale with business growth rather than slow it down.

• Product or project management experience: You have 4 years of product or project management experience ideally in technical platform products internal systems compliance-heavy environments or infrastructure domains. Experience in logistics marketplaces SaaS fintech or regulated environments is a strong plus.

• Strong Technical Understanding: You have strong experience in working closely with engineers and technical stakeholders and have deep understanding of system dependencies APIs platform architecture data flows and technical constraints to drive meaningful product decisions.

• Compliance and Regulatory Affinity: You have intense experience in directly working together with legal privacy security teams. You have experience working on products involving technical compliance privacy security governance internal controls or regulated requirements. You do not need to be a legal expert but you know how to translate complex requirements into product execution.

• Knowledgeable in data area: You have a basic understanding of different concepts in AI data engineering data warehousing data infrastructure analytics and cloud-based data technologies (e.g. AWS Google Cloud) or yourself were a data consumer before (e.g. analyst data scientist data engineer)

• Strong Stakeholder Management: You are highly effective in navigating complex organizations and aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering legal operations privacy and leadership.

• Structured Communicator: You communicate clearly document decisions well and can explain complex technical or compliance topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strategic Product Thinking: You can define product vision strategy and roadmap in complex environments where requirements come from multiple domains and stakeholders balancing risk business priorities and technical debt.

If you think you have what it takes we encourage you to apply even if you dont meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

OUR OFFER

Zalando provides a range of benefits heres an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

• Employee shares program

• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando 30% off Zalando Lounge discounts from external partners

• 2 paid volunteering days a year

• Hybrid working model with 40% remote per week actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration

• 27 days of vacation a year to start

• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)

• Family services including counseling and support

• Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)

• Mental health support and coaching available

Learn all about Zalando and our values here: Experience:

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