Head of Product - Platform Growth (f/m/d)
Lead IMAGO’s platform growth - shape our self-serve webshop, build a strong product function, and expand visual content worldwide.
IMAGO is one of the leading agencies for visual content in Europe, with over 800 million photos and videos used daily by international clients across News Media, Broadcast, Sports, Brands, and Corporate sectors.
For almost 30 years, we’ve built a strong market position in Germany and continue evolving our platform to meet global digital demands. Our international team works closely together from our headquarters in the heart of Berlin.
This is a newly created, CEO-facing role with end-to-end ownership for developing our self-serve webshop into a major business line and, at the same time, establishing a strong product function across IMAGO as the overall Head of Product for our small product team.
Your tasks
1) Build the webshop into a major business line:
Continuously optimize user acquisition, engagement, and conversion
Develop product and pricing concepts that increase transactions and reduce friction (in alignment with enterprise sales)
Build a scalable organic growth engine leveraging large-catalog e-commerce experience incl. information architecture, internal linking, programmatic landing pages
Drive international expansion: market prioritization, localization strategy, multi-market rollout
Lead cross-functional execution across Marketing, Engineering, Data/BI and Sales
2) Establish a strong product function across IMAGO:
Own IMAGO’s product vision, strategy, and portfolio prioritization across self-serve growth and enterprise-facing initiatives
Set up the product operating model (discovery, prioritization, roadmap, rituals, stakeholder alignment, measurement)
Lead and develop our small product team (PM, Designer) and work closely with stakeholders to ensure high-quality outcomes with lasting impact ensuring high quality in discovery, UX, and decision-making
Create transparency through KPIs and product performance reporting (e.g., conversion funnel, retention/repeat purchase, cycle time, engagement parameters)
Act as a key sparring partner for the C-level on strategic bets, trade-offs, and investment decisions
What we expect
Senior product leader with experience owning growth for a self-serve digital product/platform (e-commerce, marketplace, large catalog)
Proven ability to lead and develop a product team and run core product routines (discovery, prioritization, roadmap, measurement)
Understanding of SEO-led growth at scale (internal linking, information architecture, scalable landing pages)
Strong analytical capabilities - good problem-solving, hypothesis-driven working approach and high confidence in experiment design and implementation
Builder mindset — comfortable creating and improving structure and processes rather than stepping into an already established setup where you'd only need to make decisions
Strong prioritization and stakeholder management across Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Data/BI
Business fluent in English and German
Media/licensing industry experience is a plus
What we offer
A modern workplace in the heart of Berlin
Public transportation ticket
Monthly budget to spend in an area of your liking, incl. Health (Urban Sports and others), Learning, Travelling, etc.
Company pension scheme
Platform for employee discounts from a wide range of providers
Looking forward to your application. 🙌🏼
- Department
- Product Development
- Role
- Head of Product
- Location
- Berlin
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Berlin
Our Perks & Benefits
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🏄🏻♀️ 30 days paid vacation
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore we offer everybody 30 days paid vacation. -
🕐 Flexible working hours
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible working hours. -
🥯 Breakfast at work
Every day we got breakfast at work. We want to make sure our colleagues have the energy to do their work properly. -
Regular social & team events 🕺
Once a quarter we celebrate our successes as a team.
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
Corporate culture is essential to allow the organization to differentiate itself. In terms of image on the one hand, it has strengths both internally and externally to consumers. It is indeed a source of cohesion and motivation of employees and it limits conflicts. With customers, it conveys a positive image and can develop a feeling of closeness to the company or even become a criterion of choice.