Senior Product Manager for the content team in Market (seller experience)

Yandex Market is one of the largest marketplaces, used daily by millions of people. Every day, buyers browse and purchase hundreds of thousands of items. To make a purchase decision, they pay attention to the title, photos, reviews, description, and other characteristics. For the number of orders to grow, it is important for sellers to improve the quality of assortment content and upload new content. For this, they need a convenient way to work with content.

What tasks await you

Implementing product strategy Working with product listings should be simple, fast, and convenient. You will be tasked with finding the barriers sellers encounter when working with product listings and launching tools that eliminate these difficulties.

Creating useful tools for sellers A thoroughly filled-out product listing is easier to find in search, and the conversion rate from view to purchase is higher for such listings. We want to motivate sellers to enter information into listings as thoroughly as possible. You will be tasked with devising and launching tools that allow sellers to improve their product listings in a few clicks. You will communicate about these tools to the market and users, transparently convey their value, and teach sellers how to use them.

Managing the product team and related teams You will lead a team of 3-4 developers, a designer, an analyst, and an editor. You will need to communicate extensively with related content and B2C teams responsible for data info-model and the display of product listings for buyers. You will be responsible for organizing the work of development, design, editorial, and related departments, aligning and constantly calibrating common goals, backlog, specific projects, and coordinating product launches.

Research and analysis of the external environment You will be tasked with researching the experience and work of sellers on marketplaces in Russia and abroad, devising product solutions that will help partners and motivate them to use our tools for content development.

We expect that you

• Have managed a product for at least three years
• Have tested hypotheses and understand what A/B testing is
• Have worked directly with developers, designers, and editors, and know how to establish processes
• Can identify problems, assess their scale, propose solutions, and express benefits in numbers
• Can manage stakeholder expectations
• Adhere to a data-driven approach, can extract meaning from data
• Are capable of prioritizing tasks, and can argue and defend your point of view
• Are ready to be responsible for product development, make decisions, and achieve goals

Will be a plus

• Have optimized user scenarios using ML: fine-tuned models, integrated them into interfaces
• Have worked in the e-commerce sector
• Have a technical or analytical background, can independently analyze data, write SQL queries