CPO in Yapo.cl

Yapo.cl, Adevinta’s Chilean marketplace brand, is experimenting big growth and is now searching for new talents for its organization.

We are the leading online marketplace in Chile. It's positioned among the 10 most visited websites + apps in the country and the largest site accessed from mobile devices. With more than 1.5 million daily visits and more than 8 million users every day, it's the current preferred brand for buying and selling online.

What we are looking is a Chief Product Officer that play a pivotal role in building the vision, roadmap and team that will be in charge of designing our product for the future. Specifically, this person will be directly responsible for building and managing a high functioning team of Product managers, product owners and UX/UI specialist, who will deliver well-designed software that engages and delights our users while getting high profits out of it.

• Understand and help to develop the company global strategy.
• Create and develop the product vision and strategy, in line with the global one.
• Should be delivery-driven, practical and networking attitude.
• It's an Adevinta ambassador, inside and outside.
• Lead internal teams, turning them in high performance teams focusing on diversity by an effective people management.
• Also need leadership skills to lead the organization / partners / stakeholders in the community.
• Is a continuous learner and takes responsibility for own development and keeps up to date with the latest and greatest in own area of expertise, acting as a mentor ensuring improvement in others professionals skills and knowledge.
• Demonstrates self-awareness; has a clear view of own strengths and development needs and the effect he/she has on other people.
• Leads by Adevinta leadership principles and Adevinta values his team and also help his managers to lead their own teams by them.
• Define the product strategy and build its long and short terms OKRs.
• Based on this OKR’s build a long term plans and short term roadmaps, executing and following through results and instilling speed and fact-based decisions in the organization.
• Will be responsible for balance the interests of multiple teams and resolves conflict to ensure overall results.
• Optimize current cross-teams processes
• Keep in touch with the CPO’s community at Adevinta, in order to detect collaboration opportunities.
• Take our Product to the next level in terms of team organization, acquisition of new capabilities.
• Looking always to fulfill users needs while keep growing our revenues.

• Four or more years working as a CPO or similar.
• Analytical skills, create robust analysis and meaningful insights to drive actions and highlight opportunities.
• Capability of having a clear vision of both big picture and details, as long, mid and short term actions and strategies.
• Proven experience in mobile and web product design and project management, working with cross-functional teams such as designers and developers.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast moving and ever changing environment with maturity and foresight to cope with input and changes, sometimes at the last minute.
• High energy and self motivation, to dive change and act as an inspiring entity, being courageous and persistent.
• Deep knowledge of UX principles, methodologies and architecture (for web and mobile).
• Basic technical understanding of online product development (limitations, speed issues, databases, and overall technical structure).
• Support and challenge constantly the tech and data on platforms upgrades and unificatios.
• Knowledge and experience working with Agile methodologies, ideally with Scrum.
• Advanced English level, written and spoken.

Be the leader of one of the key areas of the company and being responsible for their continuous development and also their alignment to company’s goals. This team is key, because they are in charge of investigating, building and continues improving each part of our platforms, using proven techniques that enhance user experiences and interface while making it profitable.

This position reports directly to our GM, who will be your main supporter locally, but you'll also have support from an expert team across the world. This will allow you to create an international network and will give you the chance to meet people from different cultures and open the door for developing and growing with the company and the group.

We also have other benefits as flexible working hours, lunch subvention, complementary insurance, bonus (for christmas and national holiday) additional vacation days for each year you work with us (limit of 5 days), training and formation, among some others.