Product Owner to Afound

Job Description


Are you a visionary leader, experienced Product Owner and you get thrilled by the idea of working in a start-up setting with the stability of an established company? Then you might be the person we are looking for!




Company Description


Each Afounder at our company is an essential part of our team. We offer you a strong company culture and an open environment. We are growing fast and are now looking for a Product owner to join us in our exciting journey ahead and this is an opportunity to help build one of the most exiting companies to be launched within digital commerce. We are counting on you to contribute with your passion, experience, and expertise, as you can count on us to support you in your personal and professional development. This is a unique opportunity to work in a start-up setting with the stability of an established company!
Afound is a marketplace for amazing deals while offering new ways to shop more sustainably. With the mission to give fashion new life, we make it easy to discover existing collections from past and present seasons, always at a reduced price. The digital marketplace (afound.com) was launched in June 2018. Today, Afound offers a wide assortment including hundreds of fashion, beauty and interior brands for women, men and kids. Afound is an independent brand within H&M Group.




Job Description


As a Product Owner at Afound you are a visionary leader who guides new product ideas from an initial concept to product launch and assures full benefit realization. You will be working in a cross competent, customer centric dev-ops product team that delivers exceptional business results. The team is responsible for converting the customers and making the deal hunt as exciting as possible, from Department selector to Add to cart on the product page. You will set an ambitious and clear product vision as well as communicate it effectively to collaboration partners. You will also create a product roadmap based on a deep understanding of the market, insights, and data on our customers. You are also responsible for the results and product specific KPIs once solution enters production. In addition to this, you will:
Contribute to the end-to-end team output strategy from inception to production
Together with the Tech Lead own and maintain the backlog based on the targets and KPIs
Align with other Product Owners to ensure interfaces to other products

Things we look for
We believe you have at least 2-5 years of experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager with outcome responsibility. You have experience working within a cross-functional development team to achieve the common mission, prioritizing work and inspire the team to improvement. You also have an ability to influence decision makers and manage stakeholders to achieve the product mission, and to own and articulate end-to-end product requirements across product teams. You are capable of gathering, analyzing, and understanding customer and business needs and clearly express the connections between larger business goals and small backlog items for team members. Furthermore, we believe you have:
Functional knowledge of lean-agile development and methodologies as well as product vision creation and product roadmap development
Familiar with working in design sprints and with rapid prototyping
Ability to build end-to-end product strategy, including definition of scope, roadmap, and KPIs and understand product development from ideation to release
Proficiency with integrating qualitative and quantitative research, product analysis and customer insights into product requirements

What we offer
Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc., you are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow.
Are you ready to take your next career step?
This is a fulltime position based in Stockholm. We will review and interview on-going, so please apply as soon as possible but no later than 2022-04-13. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact Tove Tapper, tove.tapper@hm.com (Talent Acquisition Partner).
We look forward to receiving your application!