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Decathlon

Designs and sells sports equipment and clothing

Product Manager - Categories - Ecommerce Categories

Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, France

About the Job

Requirements

  • Three to five or more years of experience as a Product Manager in a B2C e-commerce, digital platform, or catalog/search ecosystem.
  • Strong understanding of e-commerce navigation, catalog trees, taxonomy or data structures, or search and discovery platforms.
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate and align complex international, cross-functional organizations, including technology teams, merchandisers, and country e-commerce leads.
  • Proficiency across the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from discovery (UX research, data, and A/B testing) to delivery (backlog refinement, technical roadmap, and deployment).
  • Data-oriented approach to feature prioritization and measuring impact on conversion and user experience.
  • Fluency in spoken and written English and French.
  • Curiosity about large-scale architecture and data problems, user-centered design, and a strong interest in sports.

Responsibilities

  • Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Categories and Core Navigation ecosystem.
  • Lead and make trade-offs on key product initiatives, including Core Navigation standardization of global category trees and SKU-level categorization engines such as the Tesseract streaming engine.
  • Align central sports teams, global digital merchandising, and country teams around shared operating models.
  • Continuously identify user, SEO, and business opportunities through data analysis, user testing, and card-sorting studies.
  • Establish a consistent A/B testing process to refine business hypotheses and identify growth opportunities.
  • Balance global standardization with local-market flexibility and ensure smooth migration from local trees to global Core Trees.
  • Establish decision frameworks and clear service-level agreements for global taxonomy, SEO governance, and category creation.
  • Lead agile delivery in close partnership with the squad's Tech Lead and developers.
  • Prioritize and refine the backlog, including epics and user stories, to support multi-level export flows, batch orchestration tools, and taxonomy rule execution.
  • Oversee key migration milestones for countries adopting the Core Navigation framework on desktop and mobile.
  • Define and track navigation success metrics, including PDP Reach Rate, revenue per session, menu-use click-through rate, and conversion by category.
  • Use data analysis to improve category performance, remove inactive categories, and streamline taxonomy filters.
  • Organize and prioritize the backlog using clear and reliable data.
  • Represent product excellence and taxonomy standards across Decathlon's international network.
  • Foster a collaborative working environment based on trust, accountability, and user centricity.

About the Company

Decathlon

Designs and sells sports equipment and clothing

Decathlon designs, makes and sells sports equipment, footwear and clothing for people ranging from beginners to competitive athletes. Its own sports brands cover activities such as hiking, cycling, running and swimming, with products developed around the needs of each sport. Teams manage product design, production and distribution, combining physical stores with online shopping to sell directly to consumers while also carrying selected partner brands. Revenue comes from sales of sporting goods, with its own product development and purchasing operations supporting a broad assortment at accessible prices. Founded in 1976, Decathlon is headquartered in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
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Founded
1976

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