Sr. Product Manager, Discovery

About Us:

Rent the Runway (RTR)  is transforming the way we get dressed by pioneering the world’s first Closet in the Cloud. Founded in 2009, RTR has disrupted the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by inspiring women with a more joyful, sustainable and financially-savvy way to feel their best every day. As the ultimate destination for circular fashion, the brand now offers infinite points of access to its shared closet via a fully customizable subscription to fashion, one-time rental or ownership. RTR offers designer apparel, accessories and home decor from 700+ brand partners and has built in-house proprietary technology and a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman’s leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list multiple times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100” most influential people in the world and as one of People magazine’s “Women Changing the World.”

About the Team:

The RTR product team is data-driven, experimental, iterative, and customer-obsessed. We're a first mover, creating our category, energized by driving new behaviors, and are constantly looking for ways to reach new customers. We embody RTR’s core values - thinking of ourselves as founders, dreaming big, being scrappy but not crappy, fostering debate and honest conversations and bringing our authentic selves to work every day.

About the Role: 

As a Senior Product Manager for Discovery you will be responsible for creating inspirational and efficient experiences that help RTR’s customers find styles to rent or buy. You will operate at the intersection of business, technology, and user experience to deliver functionality that helps acquire and retain customers. You will push the envelope and drive innovative enhancements to our desktop, mobile web, and app experiences. You will develop a data-driven product strategy to hit ambitious goals making it easier for our customers to find exciting styles to rent month after month. In partnership with our Engineering, Machine Learning, Design, Revenue, Site Merchandising, Fashion, Inventory, and Marketing teams, you will execute against the strategy and test, learn and iterate to deliver the best outcomes.  

What You’ll Do:

• You will act as a thought leader with a POV on how to improve experiences for how our customers discover fashion and foster a team culture that celebrates that great ideas can come from anywhere
• Define Discovery goals and strategies to achieve them. Partner with Revenue to constantly monitor real-time changes to product and business performance and provide recommendations when we need to pivot or double down on what’s working
• Own a roadmap of hypothesis-driven big bets and steady improvements to reduce the time/effort to find styles for each shipment using analytics, qualitative user behavior data, and quantitative user feedback
• Partner with Product Design, Engineering, Machine Learning & Site Merchandising to create discovery experiences that are delightful, innovative, functional, and personalized that help our customers find exciting styles to rent now or save for later 
• Collaborate with the Machine Learning team to leverage ML and AI techniques to improve recommendation algorithms and other personalized discovery experiences.
• Lead a product squad from product discovery to delivery to identify the highest impact work and way to deliver iteratively.  Guide team to constantly test and learn leveraging A/B testing and qual/quant research and analysis 

About You:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years experience; ideal candidate has been in a Sr Product role at an e-commerce company. 
• Has experience successfully driving search & discovery and/or personalization strategies. 
• Relationship builder who collaborates and engages well with stakeholders. Works to understand their objectives and earns their trust by proactively engaging them in the product process, bringing creative solutions to the table, and leading discussions around new learnings and strategies.
• Insights and data-driven. Passionate about unlocking new learnings and has experience leveraging Data Science & self-service analytics tools to make decisions (Heap, Looker, Google Analytics).
• Highly organized leader & strong communicator with the ability to drive results and keep their team motivated and accountable. 
• Both a strategic thinker and a roll-up-your-sleeves operator.
• Obsessed with knowing your customer and empathizing with their pain points, dreams and aspirations. 

Benefits:

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