Senior Product Manager, KAYAK
Cars
3+ days a week in office (Friedrichshain, Berlin)
Travel search engine
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Travel search engine
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3+ days a week in office (Friedrichshain, Berlin)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- You understand consumer behavior, are numbers proficient, and enjoy working with people organization-wide to prioritize opportunities and users problems
- 7 to 10+ years of proven experience in product management, with a preference for candidates with experience in Scrum Agile methodologies and the Cars and/or Travel industry
- You represent our values: be bold, own it, and win as one
- Demonstrated consumer approach with preference for e-commerce and B2C background
- Proven track record to articulate a product strategy and translate it into product requirements
- Strong ownership of problems and a proactive approach
- Demonstrated ability to rely on data for decision-making, complemented by strong intuition
- Good business judgment, BS/BA required, technical background strongly preferred, MBA or similar experience a strong plus
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills at all levels of an organization
- High attention to detail and a love of numbers are a requirement
- Ability to collaborate with teams across different cultures and time zones
- A regular traveler and empathetic to the challenges our users encounter
What the job involves
- Calling all frequent travelers - KAYAK is looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Cars team!
- This is an opportunity for you to have a major impact on the way people find and book travel on KAYAK
- Reporting to the Director of Product, you will be responsible for advocating for traveler needs and crafting a roadmap that delivers thoughtful and tailored experiences that people love
- Own the Cars product experience and user journey. Make it yours. Define and communicate priorities for our Cars vertical to support KAYAK’s product vision and address known gaps in functionality and content offerings
- Act as the voice of the customer whilst making the best decisions for the business
- Monitor the competitive landscape and stay informed about both travel and e-commerce spaces
- Utilise AI tools as part of your day-to-day work to increase your productivity and efficiency
- Manage a product roadmap committed to achieving goals, driving impact, and improving customer experience
- Identify and prioritize user and business problems through data (qualitative and quantitative)
- Craft requirements that facilitate meaningful product improvements, weighing impact against business goals and technical feasibility
- Translate validated problems into clear, actionable solutions and requirements in collaboration with your team members (Design and Engineering)
- Support the team during the sprint execution with decisions and clarifications
- Measure and analyze insights from product changes, chasing impact against goals, and the opportunities our data, user research, and A/B experiment results might reveal
- Drive continuous improvement through learning loops: experiment results, iteration, and insights synthesis
- Foster strong, trust-based relationships with team members and collaborators to enable effective collaboration and shared ownership of outcomes
- Encourage and empower the Cars team, fostering a strong sense of unity and team spirit
Our take
KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.
There’s been speculation over the years about online travel companies getting into the hotel business and KAYAK is no exception. The company is expanding its hospitality offerings beyond its traditional hotel referral and booking services but despite speculation through the 2020s, has stopped short of opening hotels under its own brand, preferring to partner with preexisting companies on their hotel tech.
Since being acquired by Booking Holdings, the global leader in online travel, in 2013, KAYAK has continued to expand and innovate, enhancing the travel experience for users all around the world. And now KAYAK manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. With the aim to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - it now operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
- Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
- Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
- Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
- Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
- Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms
Company HQ
South End, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Steve Hafner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Board Member of Trulia, Blade and SeatGeek and currently an Executive at OpenTable.
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