Director, Product Management (Catalog)

The role

The Director of Product Management (Catalog) will set the vision and strategic roadmap for the Catalog platform. This role involves using LLMs and Generative AI to solve e-commerce challenges and leading the product lifecycle from conceptual frameworks to production.

What you will do

• Set the vision and strategic roadmap for Coupang's Catalog platform.
• Pioneer the application of cutting-edge LLMs and Gen AI to solve e-commerce challenges.
• Lead the entire product lifecycle from conceptual AI frameworks to production implementation.
• Navigate ambiguity to establish structured roadmaps and make trade-off decisions.
• Drive executive alignment across multi-regional leadership in Engineering, Data Science, Product, Operations, and Infrastructure.
• Establish metrics and build automated mechanisms to track performance and operational efficiency.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience developing and launching tech products at a tier-1 technology company.
• Proven track record of applying LLMs, Generative AI, and ML frameworks to high-scale e-commerce or consumer marketplace applications.
• Ability to thrive in highly ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• End-to-end experience leading product strategy, roadmaps, and GTM strategies.
• Deep understanding of the modern AI/ML software stack, model evaluation frameworks, and deployment of LLMs at scale.
• Experience managing technical and design direction for complex, large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on mastery of agile methodologies including rapid prototyping and A/B testing.
• Expert capability in using quantitative research, data analysis, and metrics to drive decisions.
• Solid grasp of multi-sided e-commerce marketplace models, catalog architectures, and pricing dynamics.
• Experience collaborating with and leading cross-functional teams across multiple international geographies.

About the company

Coupang is a fast-growing e-commerce company and a dominant force in South Korean commerce. It offers a startup culture backed by the resources of a large, global public company.