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 SEEKER 

The mission of the Seeker domain at Aviv is to make finding your home a joyful process. We accomplish that by building a multi-brand, multi-market platform across web and app that guides seekers effortlessly to their happy place. We are structured into 4 pillars to reflect the customer journey (Attract, Activate, Retain, Connect), with each pillar comprising 4-5 impact teams focused on solving a specific set of customer problems. This role is to lead the Connect pillar with the following focus: 

• help home seekers evaluate a property by providing all of the information in a property rich detail page ;

• innovate in the space of communication between home seekers and home owners/agents ;

• discover and develop rich sources of content to help the seeker understand the city and neighborhood ;

• aiding the seeker in understanding their affordability and connecting them to financing partners.

The Seeker domain 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 Connect Product strategy with your design and engineering counterparts. Furthermore, you would be responsible to coordinate, mentor and support your team in the following areas :

STRATEGY & PLANNING

• Translate the company objectives into a strategic pillars and a tangible roadmap, fostering clarity and alignment across all teams ;

• Set a clear prioritization, allowing the teams to allocate resources effectively to achieve maximum results ;

• Define success metrics and OKRs at a pillar level.

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 ;

• Guide teams in best practices for discovery ;

• Help teams to set appropriate KPIs and OKRs and estimate and deliver impact.

LEADERSHIP & PRACTICES

• Recruit and develop a team of Product Managers towards excellence ; 

• Develop the product practice across the domain and champion it across the Product & Tech organization ; 

• 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.

ADDITIONAL LEADERSHIP DUTIES

• Lead the Connect pillar 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 organization 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 people management across a large international and diverse product and tech organization (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 (training, 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 organization 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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