Ready to make a difference? This is an opportunity for you!

Ready to make a difference? This is an opportunity for you!

Schibsted Marketplaces is transforming the way people consume goods and services with some of the strongest brands in the Nordics (FINN, Blocket, Tori, DBA etc). With a proud history of innovation, we are committed to helping people make smarter choices for themselves and future generations.

Our area Brand Experience helps development teams run fast and co-create an engaging and consistent experience for our users in our beloved brands and marketplaces. We are 13 cross-functional teams and around 100 people in the area.

The Design System team empowers product teams to design, build and ship coherent experiences with speed by creating a design system that provides reusable components, guidelines, typography, color palettes, documentation and more. The team is a multidisciplinary group of 11 highly skilled professionals.

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to join our Design System team. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on bringing people together and delivering products that spark value for both users and the business.

What you’ll do

• Put the team first: Listen, inspire and resolve challenges, focus on collective wins and the team over individual results
• Facilitate collaboration: Bring design, engineering, and stakeholders together to align priorities, share ideas, and work seamlessly toward shared goals.
• Drive impactful products: Lead product discovery and delivery with a user-first mindset, balancing business value, technical feasibility, and team input.

Key responsibilities

• Understand the users and needs: Develop a deep understanding of users' needs to inform product decisions.
• Set vision and strategy: Define the team’s vision, strategy, and roadmap in close collaboration with tech and UX peers.
• Drive outcomes: Set goals, define priorities, and make decisions to achieve desired business and user outcomes.
• Balance discovery and delivery: Ensure the team strikes a healthy balance between exploring new opportunities (discovery) and delivering valuable solutions efficiently.
• Leverage data and insights: Use data, metrics, and user insights to drive innovation, learnings, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate and communicate: Align and communicate plans, roadmaps, and learnings with other teams and across the organization.

Required Skills and Experience

• Product management experience: Proven experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver successful products.
• Strategic vision and execution: Ability to define and communicate a clear product vision, strategy, and roadmap that align with business goals and user needs.
• Collaboration and communication: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate goals, priorities, and context clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• User-centric mindset: Strong ability to empathize with users, understand their problems, and leverage insights to inform product decisions.
• Data-driven decision-making: Experience using data, metrics, and user research to prioritize, validate ideas, and measure success.
• Stakeholder management: Experience managing relationships across teams, aligning priorities, and navigating dependencies to ensure smooth delivery.

If you have experience working with a design system that supports multiple brands - it’s a great bonus!

Why join us?

• A defining moment in our company. In 2023 we became a Nordic Marketplace Division in Schibsted, in 2024 we became a pure play marketplace company. In 2025 we will get a new Brand and build a new Identity. It is time to make history and you can be part of it!
• A team that can make a difference. The design system team already has a strong standing in several important parts of the organisation and is critical for us to succeed with our strategy and make a difference in the society.
• A personal growth opportunity. We don't do this because it is easy, but because it pushes us to grow, innovate and learn together.
• Fantastic Colleagues across the Nordics. We are about 1950 people in Schibsted Marketplaces and you will be thrilled over all the talented and nice people working here

Ready to embark on this thrilling journey? Apply below! 🚀 We're eager to read your application and get back to you.

GOT YOUR ATTENTION? Let us hear from you!

If you are looking for a workplace and a role in which you could share your knowledge and expertise, learn and grow, get inspired, be yourself, and make a difference, let us hear from you by January 17th 2025

Please note that due to the upcoming holidays, we will start processing candidates in January.