Lead Product Manager - Pricing & Data Platform

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COMPANY OVERVIEW

At World of Books, we’re on a mission to become the Planet’s Bookstore.

Our business was founded in 2002 with the purpose of encouraging recycling, minimising waste and fostering sustainability by giving books a second life. Since then, we’ve grown into the world’s largest seller of used books, providing millions of customers with an affordable way to discover, purchase and enjoy books sustainably.

We have offices in the UK, US and Hungary, with over 1,000 employees dedicated to continuing to do good, protect the environment and support charities – as reflected in our certified B-Corp status.

Our lines of business:

• World of Books: The UK’s largest online retailer of used (and new!) books, reaching customers in over 190 countries through direct-to-consumer channels, marketplaces (e.g. Amazon and eBay) and wholesale partners. In the UK, >50% of sales are through the direct-to-consumer channel, which is also growing at pace in the US.
• World of Rare Books: Specialists in rare, vintage and first edition books, providing one of Europe’s largest collections of pre-ISBN and decorative vintage books.
• Sell Your Books (SYB): An innovative app-based service enabling customers to scan barcodes or tap ISBN codes from their books for instant valuations and hassle-free resale.
• Sell Your Books Pro (SYBP): A SaaS product capable of scanning products on an industrial level, enabling organisations such as national charities to sell us their books, generate additional revenue for good causes and enable more items to be reused.

Our business model is underpinned by a combination of proprietary and off-the-shelf technology which enables us to dynamically select and price items. This means we’re able to offer customers a unique range of products across a range of channels and at prices that cannot be found elsewhere.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Over the next few years, World of Books plans to accelerate growth as a direct-to-consumer (D2C) eCommerce business. We’re enhancing our dynamic pricing, inventory management, warehousing operations and data capabilities to continue scaling internationally and tral to this is our investment in our pricing platform and data infrastructure – ensuring we have a scalable, high-quality data platform that powers our pricing algorithms, analytics, machine-learning and operational decision-making.

As Lead Product Manager of Pricing & Data Platform, you’ll be responsible for leading the product strategy and execution across two closely related product-engineering teams:

• Pricing Product Team – collaborating closely with data scientists and commercial partners, this team is responsible for our pricing platform that enables data scientists to rapidly test, run and deploy new pricing algorithms across all our buying and selling channels, ultimately delivering pricing systems that deliver sales and profit.
• Data Platform Team – this team is responsible for building, developing and maintaining our data warehouse and data pipelines. Our data warehouse is a critical enabler to the entire business, and serves a huge amount of use cases, such as business insight, product analytics, and data science applications including pricing.

Reporting to the Product Director, you’ll work closely with data engineers, platform and infrastructure teams, pricing analysts, data scientists and business stakeholders to ensure we have robust, scalable and performant systems that drive customer and commercial value.

What you’ll be doing:

• Owning the end-to-end product vision, strategy and roadmap for the data platform and pricing systems – including ingestion, processing, and algorithmic decisioning.
• Driving enhancements to the infrastructure that powers our pricing models, ensuring systems are scalable, flexible and responsive to changing…