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Emma – The Sleep Company

Global Product Lead

Emma – The Sleep Company

Global Product Lead at Emma, leading product strategy for the world's largest D2C sleep brand. Driving category management and product development across diverse markets.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeFrankfurt • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own category management and product development: range architecture, category prioritisation, lifecycle management, and pricing logic
  • Build and lead a high-performing, cross-functional product organisation (6 direct reports, 65 Emmies across two topics - category management and product development)
  • Build and execute a product strategy to make Emma the global leader in sleep across online and offline
  • Lead physical product development - materials, manufacturing, supplier relationships, and cost structures
  • Ground all product decisions in deep consumer understanding to drive satisfaction, brand preference, and word-of-mouth
  • Design a product architecture that balances global ambition with meaningful local differences
  • Act as a co-owner at Senior Leadership level - You will be directly reporting to the CEO and Co-founder Dennis and contributing to company strategy and cross-functional decisions
  • Think in P&L - defend margin, manage complexity, and prevent range proliferation
  • Build the processes and accountability structures that make the product org predictable and high-performing
  • Develop a strong layer of senior product leaders and invest in succession and capability-building

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 12+ years of relevant experience, with at least 3–4 years in a senior leadership role leading other team leaders
  • Deep expertise in category management - assortment strategy, range architecture, pricing logic, and portfolio decision-making
  • Hands-on experience in physical product development - materials, manufacturing, supplier relationships, cost structures
  • Background in branded consumer goods with proprietary R&D (not retail-only or pure trading)
  • Operationally deep - comfortable leading through doing, not just directing
  • Proven decision-maker under ambiguity, with the ability to give clarity when stakeholders pull in different directions
  • Experience at scale - 1,000+ people, multi-market, multi-category organisations
  • 12+ years of relevant experience, with at least 3–4 years in a senior leadership role leading other team leaders
  • Strong cross-functional collaborator who sees product as a platform for company-wide impact

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • The opportunity to create real impact, take ownership and accountability, and drive meaningful change.
  • Continuous learning and development through hands-on experience, mentoring, formal training, and access to tools such as our Learning Hub and Nilo.
  • A collaborative community of smart, driven people where you learn, contribute, and connect, every day and through team events.
  • A global environment, working daily with diverse perspectives across 4 offices and 70+ nationalities. 25 vacations days per year, with 1 extra day per year worked (until a limit of 30 days per year).
  • A flexible hybrid setup with up to 22 remote days per quarter, and offices in Gutleutviertel - Frankfurt.

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Hard Skills & Tools
Assortment StrategyRange ArchitecturePricing LogicPortfolio Decision-MakingMaterials DevelopmentManufacturing ProcessesSupplier Relationship ManagementCost Structure AnalysisConsumer InsightsProduct Strategy
Soft Skills
Decision-Making Under AmbiguityLeadershipCollaborationAccountability BuildingClarity in Communication