Principal Tech Portfolio Manager (all genders)

Join Zalando as a Principal Tech Portfolio Manager to drive transparency in technical investments and align engineering efforts with group strategy. Zalando is on a mission to become the leading pan-European fashion and lifestyle ecosystem. Our tech organizations—such as the Zalando eCommerce Platform—build the high-scale infrastructure, foundational data services, and core systems that power millions of customer and partner interactions daily.

• •Run the tech portfolio management system
• •Connect strategy, planning, and execution
• •Drive prioritization and trade-off decisions
• •Own portfolio transparency, metrics, and executive reporting
• •Partner across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Business
• •Apply AI acumen to portfolio management and technology planning

• •You bring 8+ years of experience in technical portfolio management, technical program management, enterprise portfolio management, product operations, strategy & operations, or a related role in a complex technology environment such as e-commerce, marketplaces, SaaS, cloud platforms, infrastructure, retail media, fintech, or large-scale digital products.
• •You have managed portfolios across multiple engineering teams, product domains, or business units, and have operated directly with senior technology leaders.
• •You have proven experience with portfolio intake, prioritization, sequencing, dependency tracking, capacity modelling, budget or investment tracking, and portfolio health reporting.
• •You produce clear, structured senior-leadership materials, including decision papers, portfolio narratives, business cases, executive updates, and steering documents that combine data, judgment, and recommendations.
• •You operate with high autonomy and strong judgment, turning ambiguous problems into clear structures, mechanisms, stakeholder alignment, and outcomes with limited guidance.
• •You are comfortable challenging senior stakeholders respectfully when the data or logic requires it.