Global Product Lead

Role Overview

• Own category management and product development: range architecture, category prioritisation, lifecycle management, and pricing logic
• Build and lead a high-performing, cross-functional product organisation (6 direct reports, 65 Emmies across two topics
• category management and product development)
• Build and execute a product strategy to make Emma the global leader in sleep across online and offline
• Lead physical product development
• materials, manufacturing, supplier relationships, and cost structures
• Ground all product decisions in deep consumer understanding to drive satisfaction, brand preference, and word-of-mouth
• Design a product architecture that balances global ambition with meaningful local differences
• Act as a co-owner at Senior Leadership level
• You will be directly reporting to the CEO and Co-founder Dennis and contributing to company strategy and cross-functional decisions
• Think in P&L
• defend margin, manage complexity, and prevent range proliferation
• Build the processes and accountability structures that make the product org predictable and high-performing
• Develop a strong layer of senior product leaders and invest in succession and capability-building

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience, with at least 3–4 years in a senior leadership role leading other team leaders
• Deep expertise in category management
• assortment strategy, range architecture, pricing logic, and portfolio decision-making
• Hands-on experience in physical product development
• materials, manufacturing, supplier relationships, cost structures
• Background in branded consumer goods with proprietary R&D (not retail-only or pure trading)
• Operationally deep
• comfortable leading through doing, not just directing
• Proven decision-maker under ambiguity, with the ability to give clarity when stakeholders pull in different directions
• Experience at scale
• 1,000+ people, multi-market, multi-category organisations
• 12+ years of relevant experience, with at least 3–4 years in a senior leadership role leading other team leaders
• Strong cross-functional collaborator who sees product as a platform for company-wide impact

Benefits

• The opportunity to create real impact, take ownership and accountability, and drive meaningful change.
• Continuous learning and development through hands-on experience, mentoring, formal training, and access to tools such as our Learning Hub and Nilo.
• A collaborative community of smart, driven people where you learn, contribute, and connect, every day and through team events.
• A global environment, working daily with diverse perspectives across 4 offices and 70+ nationalities. 25 vacations days per year, with 1 extra day per year worked (until a limit of 30 days per year).
• A flexible hybrid setup with up to 22 remote days per quarter, and offices in Gutleutviertel
• Frankfurt.