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Senior Product Manager (Coupang Eats Geospatial and Map Products)

Coupang

Coupang

Product
Seoul, South Korea
Posted on Nov 15, 2024

Coupang Eats is loading for an experienced Product Owner for Geospatial and Maps-related products. The candidate must be an experienced contributor, builder, and expert in either B2C or B2B geospatial products. This is an exciting and demanding role, where you will own and co-create key geospatial capabilities, intellectual property and know-how with other world-class product managers, engineers, scientists and business stakeholders. These capabilities shall include but not limited to areas such as routing decisions, travel predictions, distance calculations, base-maps, location intelligence, GPS trace analytics and more. Your products will drive both offline process improvements and online real-time decision-making, help us fulfill millions of time-sensitive orders every day, support our rapid growth and expansion within Korea and beyond, and above all, wow our customers with an unparalleled food-delivery experience.

Key Responsibilities

- Own, develop and maintain an aspirational Product Vision for geospatial and mapping capabilities within the Eats' Delivery Products team.

- Design and deliver scalable, enterprise-grade and real-time geospatial and mapping products and capabilities to build towards realizing that vision.

- Work hand-in-hand with our world-class engineering and data science teams to own, develop, maintain and deliver on feature development roadmaps and backlogs.

- Proactively engage business and operations stakeholders to understand and translate business needs into product requirements.

- Proactively engage senior leadership to understand and translate business strategy and intent into desired and required product capabilities.

- Work closely with peer Product Owners and other Product Leaders within the delivery domain and outside of it to actively manage inter-dependencies and requirements.

- Propose and own geospatial and mapping-related OKRs and proactively drive all stakeholders to achieve and maintain them.

- Design, execute, manage, and report on rapid hypothesis testing and experimentation results.

- Drive and uphold a culture of communicating in a clear, precise and insightful manner, through data, both verbal and written.

- Influence and inform decision-making at every level through having a deep, fully hands-on understanding of all aspects of the owned products.

- Ruthlessly prioritize, balance competing interests, drive lazer-focused product-development, and convince stakeholders on what do not need to be done.

Essential Qualifications

- Be bilingual, with full fluency in written and spoken English, and Korean is strongly preferred.

- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in technical product ownership / management.

- Experience in geospatial and mapping-related product ownership / management.

- Demonstrable track record of delivering scalable and impactful technical products in either B2B, B2C, or for internal-users.

- Solid foundational understanding of geospatial technologies, principles and their mathematical underpinnings.

- Must be fully capable of driving rapid product development through the scientific method of formulating clear problem statements, researching topic areas, forming testable hypotheses, conduct experiments, analyze empirical data and findings, and report conclusions and recommendations.

- Solid understanding of statistical methods and hypothesis testing.

- Able to independently write and perform intermediate to advanced SQL queries, or demonstrate the aptitude to intensively and rapidly upskill and learn how to. Otherwise, demonstrate ability to precisely and effectively communicate data requirements to analysts, engineers, and data scientists.

- Able to independently perform intermediate to advanced data analytics, or demonstrate the aptitude to intensively and rapidly upskill and learn how to. Otherwise, demonstrate ability to precisiely and effectively communicate data requirements to analysts, engineers, and data scientists.

- Able to craft and tell effective product-stories, communicate with and influence stakeholders through data.

- Prior experience and familiarity with working and thriving within lean, self-directed and blazing-fast business environments.

Bonus Points

- Demonstrate fluency and craftsmanship with tools such as geospatial tools, such as Folium, geopandas, and others.

- Demonstrate fluency and competency with data tools such as pandas, scipy, numpy and others.

- Demonstrate capability to design wireframes and communicate product designs with tools like Figma.

- Knowledge in Agile Product Management methods and certifications in Project Management metholodogies, such as SAFe Agile, PRINCE2, or PMP.

- Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or other closely-related fields. Alternatively, have a demonstrable portfolio of past commercial or open-source projects and related products.

[Recruitment Process and Others]

Recruitment Process

  • Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview – Offer
  • The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
  • Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Details to Consider

  • This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
  • Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
  • Coupang does not discriminate against disabled applicants or those with veteran status. We are proud to offer equal opportunities for all applicants.
  • Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate’s overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer.

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  • Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below. https://www.coupang.jobs/en/privacy-policy/

Document Return Policy

  • This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.
  • A job applicant, who has applied but not been finally selected for a position at Coupang (the “Company”), may request the Company to return his/her hiring documents submitted pursuant to the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. However, this will not apply where the hiring documents were submitted via the website of the Company or e-mail, or where the job applicant submitted those documents voluntarily without a request from the Company. In addition, if the hiring documents were destroyed due to a natural disaster or any other reasons not attributable to the Company, such documents will be deemed to have been returned to the job applicant.
  • A job applicant who wishes to request the return of his/her hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above should fill out a “Request for Return of Hiring Documents” [Annex Form No. 3 in the Enforcement Rule of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act] and submit the request to the Company (Coupang Recruiting Team, Tower 730, 570 Songpa-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul). In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the date of identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicant’s designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail.
  • In preparation for a job applicant’s request for the return of hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above, the Company shall retain the original hiring documents submitted by the job applicant for 180 days from the completion of the recruiting process. If no request is made until the end of this period, all of his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.

Equal Opportunities for All

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