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Zeiss

Corporate venture capital for deep-tech startups

Retail Project Manager/Extended Reality

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time¥7.5M - ¥10M /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's or master's degree in Business, Marketing, Digital Commerce, or a related field is required.
  • At least 7 years of relevant professional experience managing omnichannel retail, product marketing, product management, online or offline retail, omnichannel operations, project management, or stakeholder management is required.
  • Experience with international rollouts and omnichannel strategies is required.
  • A proven track record managing multi-workstream initiatives or roadmap-related programs in a retail or B2B2C context is required.
  • Experience in project management in matrix organizations is required.
  • Experience managing rollouts across multiple markets and aligning cross-functional stakeholders in a matrix organization is required.
  • Strong understanding of product marketing fundamentals, including segmentation, positioning, messaging, launch planning, and go-to-market execution is required.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills, including the ability to influence at multiple levels and across markets, are required.
  • Ability to identify operational gaps, localization needs, and market constraints and translate them into scalable actions is required.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills across sales, marketing, customer service, regulatory, retail operations, local markets, and global teams are required.
  • Ability to track readiness, execution quality, launch performance, and customer issues in a structured way is required.
  • Commercial orientation, customer focus, and ability to work effectively in fast-changing and ambiguous environments are required.
  • Ability to connect data-driven insights with strategic decision-making is required.
  • Ability to take ownership of topics end-to-end, make decisions within scope, and deliver results independently is required.
  • Strong verbal and written English skills at C1–C2 level are required.

Responsibilities

  • Manage go-to-market local strategic planning across multiple markets, including launch readiness, channel activation, system setup, marketing coordination, and cross-functional execution.
  • Conduct market, customer, competitor, and operational analysis across markets to identify adoption barriers, localization needs, market constraints, and operational gaps.
  • Consolidate market insights into recommendations for global product management, local strategy, commercialization priorities, and regional improvement actions.
  • Align product positioning, messaging, and value propositions with the global XR team and support consistent adaptation across markets.
  • Manage cross-functional stakeholders across local and regional teams, including sales, marketing, operations, commercial, customer service, and regulatory teams.
  • Track market readiness, launch progress, and execution quality across markets, and escalate risks or dependencies as needed.
  • Manage project work for local rollouts of online journeys across markets, ensuring consistency and reuse where possible.
  • Steer offline retail enablement across markets, including ECP selection principles, onboarding approaches, staff training, and quality audits.
  • Develop sales enablement tools, including product narratives, training materials, launch toolkits, and competitive guidance for commercial teams.
  • Serve as a key point of contact for customer relations across markets and functions.
  • Collect customer feedback, identify adoption performance, monitor business KPIs after launch, and derive and consolidate learnings across markets.
  • Lead regional improvement initiatives and inform the global XR team about recurring market needs and improvement themes.
  • Align closely with the global team to define support needs and prioritize regional dependencies.

Desired Qualifications

  • A proven track record in the optical or health care industry is a plus.
  • Experience in consumer technology, medical devices, or optical retail is optional.
  • Experience in offline retail enablement, including partner or store onboarding, training coordination, and quality follow-up, is optional.

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
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$69.9M
Headquarters
Oberkochen, Germany
Founded
2001

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