Search & Recommender Engine Lead (all genders)

Employment details

Permanent Contract Full-Time Remote or Cologne / Darmstadt / Dsseldorf

Info

Who we are

We operate the international online marketplaces of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team.

We love flexibility! We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focussed way: You get to decide whether you want to work in one of our offices in Cologne // Darmstadt // Dsseldorf but also have the opportunity to work remotely (within Germany) and choose the best of both. We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life balance.

Day by day our development team of about 400 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. To enrich the lives of our customers we collaborate in cross-functional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here: tasks this is what awaits you in detail

• You define and refine the product vision and strategy for both the search engine and recommender engine ensuring alignment with overall company objectives and user needs
• You lead and mentor two cross-functional teams consisting of engineers data scientists and analysts to deliver innovative and effective search and recommendation solutions
• You conduct in-depth user research and A/B testing to gather insights on user behavior preferences and pain points informing product enhancements and new features
• You analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) related to search accuracy recommendation relevance and user satisfaction using data-driven insights to guide product decisions and optimizations
• You stay on top of advancements in search and recommendation technologies leveraging industry best practices and competitor insights to drive continuous innovation and maintain a competitive edge
• You prepare and deliver regular updates and presentations to stakeholders highlighting product performance roadmap progress and strategic initiatives

Profile

Your profile this is what we expect from you

• You have multiple years of hands-on experience building optimizing and scaling search and recommender engine products in an online marketplace or similar environment
• You possess a strong engineering and/or data science background with a deep understanding of search and recommender systems including their underlying algorithms and infrastructure
• You have a proven track record in leading cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle from discovery to delivery
• You are highly data-driven and outcome-focused with the ability to define track and analyze key performance metrics and translate insights into actionable strategies
• You are customer-obsessed with a strong ability to identify user pain points and derive innovative solutions that enhance the search and recommendation experience
• You are passionate about working in an international English-speaking team and are eager to embrace our company culture and values

Benefits

What we offer

• Create your own work-life balance: Work remotely (within Germany) or at one of our locations in Cologne Darmstadt Dsseldorf!
• Diversity and variety: An international environment with talents from over 65 different nations creates innovative and exciting perspectives
• Do you want to move to Germany No problem we offer you an attractive relocation package to give you a smooth start.
• Power meets dynamic: Flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet the power of a big corporate group providing you an agile and secure working environment
• Free choice of hardware: MacBook or Lenovo Linux its up to you
• We are team players: Our strong bond extends beyond our own team: we stay connected thanks to our many internal offerings such as our digital onboarding program our all-hands meetings and regular team and company events
• Mental well-being: We support you with various initiatives on your personal and professional well-being journey!
• Boost your growth : Benefit from our online language learning offers our various in-house training offers as well as our automated 360-degree feedback to boost your personal and professional growth
• The future is digital: Develop the e-commerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users
• Deutschlandticket : We subsidise your train season ticket for more mobility
• Urban Sports Club: Get top deals for fitness team sports yoga and more
• Personal & team growth: We love flexibility in terms of working location but we also believe that personal interactions are important. Thats why we organise company events and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get-togethers with your peers. The same applies to conferences and other learning opportunities. We want everybody to grow personally and professionally as a team and as a companyCheck out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!
  

Diversity at Kaufland e-commerce

We welcome applications from everyone regardless of skin colour sexual orientation gender identity age disability ethnic origin religion and ideology. We are signatories to the Charta der Vielfalt (German Diversity Charter) because we know that extraordinary things can only be achieved with diversity. Read more here!

Your application

Why are you the perfect fit for this position
Dont bother with cover letters - were interested in facts and figures!

How would you like to be addressed
Feel free to add the following pronouns she/her him/he or they/them optionally (e.g. after your name) in your CV.

As we have very international teams we would highly appreciate it to receive your CV or profile link in English.

Contact Person

Your contact person: Verena Schilmann

Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG

Postal address:
Habsburgerring 2
50674 Kln

We are looking forward to your application!