Director Data & AI Readiness (f/m/d)

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  Set the product vision across the whole surface. One prioritized roadmap that balances customer experience, operational systems, integrations, and data — and the trade-offs between them.
• 2
  Drive the commercial outcomes that matter. Conversion, AOV, repeat rate, CLV on the front end; reliability, efficiency, and scalability on the back end. You connect every layer to the P&L.
• 3
  Lead and grow the org. A leadership team of Director Engineering, Director Data, and a Head of Product Management, and the teams beneath them; product, engineering, platform, integrations, and data. You shape the structure, hire and develop these leaders, and raise the bar on craft across all of it.
• 4
  Own engineering delivery. Through your Director Engineering, you're accountable for how — and how fast — we build: architecture quality, delivery velocity, reliability, and technical scalability across the front end and the operational backbone. Product vision without delivery is a wish list; you own both.
• 5
  Make the unsexy stuff excellent. Champion the ERP and integration work that doesn't make headlines but determines whether KoRo can scale across markets without breaking.
• 6
  Build a real experimentation culture. Make rigorous testing and rapid validation the default on the front end — right at home in KoRo's test-and-learn DNA.
• 7
  Power the flywheel. Improve the systems and data that let us launch, validate, and scale SKUs fast — turning our speed advantage into a structural one.
• 8
  Scale into new markets. Make the whole product surface work across our European footprint — localization, performance, and the operational and integration backbone behind it.
• 9
  Be the bridge to the business. Partner with marketing, commercial, operations, and finance — translating between what your org can build and what the business needs most, and making sure product, engineering, and data are pulling toward the same commercial goals.

Requirements

• #1 — Deep product leadership (Director/VP level). This is the non-negotiable core: you are, first and foremost, an excellent product leader — ideally in D2C, e-commerce, or marketplace, in a fast-scaling environment. Everything else builds on this.
• You own engineering as a product leader, not the other way round. You've led or directly partnered with engineering at a level where you're accountable for delivery — and you can lead a Director Engineering with credibility — but your center of gravity is product.
• Genuine breadth across the surface: you've owned (or are clearly ready to own) more than the front-end — operational/ERP systems, integrations, and data, not just the customer-facing experience.
• A track record of owning products against hard commercial KPIs (conversion, retention, revenue) and operational ones (reliability, scalability, efficiency) — and moving them.
• Experience leading senior leaders and multi-disciplinary teams, with strong discovery, prioritization, and delivery instincts.
• Fluency with experimentation and data-informed decision-making — evidence over opinion.
• Enough technical depth to go deep with engineering on architecture and trade-offs across front-end and back-end systems, paired with strong commercial judgment.
• A pragmatic, ship-and-learn mindset that fits our culture — and the maturity to prioritize hard and say no.
• Fluent English; German is a plus.

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