ON RUNNING
In short
At On, we are driven by a singular mission: to ignite the human spirit through movement. As we continue our rapid growth, our product teams play a pivotal role in defining and delivering the platforms and services that connect us with our customers worldwide. As our Director of Digital Product for Commercial Platforms, you will be a strategic leader responsible for the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platforms and services that support our commercial capabilities including digital and physical channels. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of On's experience. You will lead a team of Product Managers who oversee our e-commerce and retail platforms, merchandising, and content tooling. You will play a key role in enabling a seamless, premium, and scalable customer journey that accelerates On's strategic goals and elevates our global customer experience.
Your Mission
Define Platform Vision & Strategy: Shape and articulate a compelling product vision and long-term strategy for the platforms and services that underpin On's commercial and customer experience goals. Focus on how these platforms can provide scalable, reliable, and flexible capabilities for our internal teams to build upon. Inspire and Empower: Build, mentor, and empower a high performing team of Product Managers. Foster a collaborative and results-oriented environment, ensuring your team is aligned on strategic objectives and empowered to deliver exceptional solutions. Drive Platform Roadmap & Execution: Guide the development, prioritization, and execution of product roadmaps for commercial platforms, services, and tools. Partner closely with leaders in Engineering, Design, and Data to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of the foundational technology that our Digital and Retail teams need to succeed. Skillfully navigate competing priorities to drive forward-facing solutions. Champion User & Developer Insights: Promote a deep understanding of the needs of your users, including the end consumers and internal teams (engineers, merchandisers, marketers) who use your platforms and services. Lead Complex Cross-functional Alignment: Collaborate closely with senior leaders from Technology, Digital, Retail, Commercial Strategy, Brand, and Marketing to ensure platform strategies are tightly aligned with their roadmaps and On's broader commercial goals. Proactively manage dependencies and communicate platform capabilities to your internal customers. Foster Technical Innovation: Cultivate a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement. Encourage your team to explore new architectural patterns, capabilities, and API-first approaches that improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our entire commercial ecosystem. Leverage Data for Impact: Foster a data-driven approach to decision-making. Define and track key platform health and adoption metrics alongside the commercial and customer-centric KPIs your platforms influence. Use this data to justify investments and guide priorities. Guide through Domain Expertise: Stay at the forefront of industry trends in areas like composable commerce, AI / ML, and digital platform technologies. Leverage this knowledge to identify new opportunities for innovation and ensure our commercial platform stack is future proof and adaptable.
Your story
Proven Product Leadership: You bring 12+ years of experience in technology product management, with significant experience leading teams focused on foundational platforms, services, and APIs that power products at scale. Domain Expertise: You have extensive experience in the commercial technology ecosystem, including deep knowledge of e-commerce platforms, retail systems, Customer Data Platforms, and Content Management Systems, particularly with headless or composable architecture. Strong Technical Acumen: You have a deep understanding of the technologies that power modern digital and retail experiences. You can effectively collaborate with engineering leaders to build and scale complex, resilient, and performant platforms and services. Strategic Platform Mindset: You possess a strong strategic mindset with the ability to translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable platform strategies. You excel at developing a vision that bridges technology, business needs, and the internal developer/user experience to ultimately serve the end consumer. Inspirational People Leader: You are a leader with a passion for building, mentoring, and developing high-performing product management teams. You know how to empower your team to tackle complex technical challenges and support their growth in a collaborative, dynamic environment. Exceptional Communicator & Influencer: You are a highly effective communicator, capable of articulating complex technical concepts and platform strategies clearly to diverse audiences, from engineering teams to senior and executive leadership. You have proven experience in navigating complex stakeholder environments and aligning multiple perspectives toward a common goal. Data-Driven & Customer-Centric: You are customer-centric, with a clear understanding that your customers include the internal engineering, product, and business teams who build upon your platforms, as well as On's end consumers. You use data to ensure your platforms are meeting the needs of all these stakeholders. Agile Proficiency: You are well-versed in agile methodologies and know how to adapt and apply them effectively in a complex, platform-focused environment to help cross-functional teams execute efficiently and stay aligned with business needs.
