Director of Product - Search and Recommendations

Job Description

Digital Product at ASOS 

We're embarking on an exciting digital transformation journey, evolving our Digital Product team and processes with a powerful new way of working that places our digital products at the heart of our business.

We currently receive over 2.5 billion visits annually, over 23 million active customers, and over 50 million unique visitors monthly. This creates a highly committed and exciting environment with opportunities to develop best-in-class digital products.

We're looking for a product leader who will drive us forward to become one of the world's best and most innovative product teams.

As Director of Product, you'll be responsible for the product strategy and vision across our customer and partner acquisition stream. You'll drive high-quality traffic to the ASOS website and app and help unlock and build solid partner relationships.

• Set and own the Search and Recommendations vision, mission, outcomes and roadmap to align with Digital Product Management product delivery vision and strategy
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, and UX teams to design and build cutting-edge solutions.
• Lead data-driven decision-making to improve algorithm performance, personalisation, and relevance.
• Oversee the annual budgeting process by reviewing, amending and approving the budgets forecasted by the Product Managers and conduct quarterly budget reviews against actuals to identify cost over-runs, savings and allocate resources efficiently across the portfolio of products
• Lead and oversee the performance of the product team. Continually coach and improve the Digital Product management leadership capability in the team to build the pipeline of future leaders and set external best practice standards within the team

Qualifications

About You 

• Strong understanding of machine learning and data science principles.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and search technologies.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience operating, managing, and delivering results in a consumer-facing online retail environment
• Agile product management experience and working in a squad model
• A customer-centric mindset and approach to problem solving whilst maintaining a sharp focus on the commercial targets
• Experience working closely with and influencing engineering teams
• Focus on data-driven decisions to drive performance. 
• Ability to create a growth mindset within the team and nurture talent to maximise potential

Additional Information

BeneFITS’ 

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!) 
• ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business) 
• Employee sample sales  
• Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials 
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment 
• Discretionary bonus scheme  
• Private medical care scheme 
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits 

Why take our word for it? Search #InsideASOS on our socials to see what life at ASOS is like. 

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