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Zeiss

Corporate venture capital for deep-tech startups

Senior Product Management Expert

Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeGuangzhou, Guangdong Province, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or above in Product Management, Business Administration, Marketing, Medicine/Optometry, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Design or a related discipline is preferred; a master's degree or MBA is a plus.
  • At least 10 years of experience in product management, portfolio management, product strategy or product operations, including experience building product management systems across categories and business lines.
  • Experience in consumer goods, medical devices, eye health, optics, fashion/sports or related industries is preferred.
  • Solid knowledge of end-to-end product lifecycle management, including product initiation, portfolio planning, business cases, development introduction, launch management, iteration, delisting and post-launch review.
  • Experience in a headquarters, platform or center-of-excellence role, with the ability to establish common methodologies, governance mechanisms and collaboration standards across multiple business lines and stakeholders.
  • Commercial acumen and consumer insight, including the ability to translate the shift from a single lens/equipment business to a diversified eye-health ecosystem into portfolio strategy, value propositions, go-to-market alignment and ecosystem partnership logic.
  • Capability in system building, process governance and organizational enablement, with the ability to implement standards, governance authority and product-management talent-development frameworks.
  • Strategic decomposition, product thinking, cross-functional influence, complex project management, process governance and change-management capabilities; able to drive alignment and implementation across business lines without direct reporting authority.

Responsibilities

  • Define the overall product-management architecture across categories and business lines based on China’s diversified eye-health ecosystem strategy, clarifying role boundaries, collaboration mechanisms and decision interfaces between headquarters and business-line product-management functions.
  • Establish common product-management language, standards, methodologies and toolkits across consumer goods, medical devices, fashion/sports and other categories, maintaining global consistency and relevance to the China market.
  • Drive portfolio management, product roadmaps, category strategy, value propositions and prioritization mechanisms to improve resource allocation and product decision quality across a diversified business portfolio.
  • Build and continuously improve China’s end-to-end product lifecycle-management process, covering insight generation, product initiation, business cases, development introduction, launch readiness, launch management, iteration, delisting and post-launch review.
  • Define standard inputs, decision gates, deliverables, RACI and quality requirements for key milestones, enabling collaboration among product, marketing, sales, medical/professional affairs, regulatory, quality, supply chain, digital and finance teams.
  • Develop product-management standard operating procedures, templates, review mechanisms and knowledge bases to create a replicable, auditable and continuously improving product-management system.
  • Design and implement China product-governance mechanisms, including product initiation, portfolio, launch and change reviews, delisting decisions, and cross-business prioritization alignment.
  • Exercise governance and gatekeeping responsibilities within authorized scope at key product-management milestones, ensuring decisions align with company strategy, business value, compliance requirements, quality standards and resource principles.
  • Design the talent-development framework for China product-management functions, including competency models, role standards, career paths, training curricula, practice projects, assessment mechanisms and talent-review inputs.
  • Provide methodology enablement, tool training, project coaching and professional assessment for product-management professionals across business lines, helping build a sustainable talent pipeline.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in consumer goods, medical devices, eye health, optics, fashion/sports or related industries.
  • A master's degree or MBA.

About the Company

Zeiss

Corporate venture capital for deep-tech startups

ZEISS Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of the ZEISS Group, investing in deep-tech startups that align with its core business areas. It focuses on early-stage rounds (pre-Series A to Series A), typically $1–$5 million, across Information Technology, Industrial Tech, MedTech, and Life Sciences. It adds value by providing targeted funding and using ZEISS’s global network and expertise to support portfolio companies. The goal is to accelerate development of new technologies and business models that complement ZEISS’s portfolio, while actively engaging with external innovation.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$69.9M
Headquarters
Oberkochen, Germany
Founded
2001

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