Senior Product Manager, On the Beach
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Manchester
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Beach holiday online retailer
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Beach holiday online retailer
501-1000 employees
B2CHospitalityTravelSaaS
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Senior and Expert level
Manchester
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501-1000 employees
B2CHospitalityTravelSaaS
Company mission
To become Europe’s biggest and most loved online retailer of beach holidays.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a Senior Product Manager from a high-traffic, high-volume eCommerce or marketplace environment, with deep experience in search, discovery, or personalisation-led products
- Proven experience operating as a Senior Product Manager within a high-scale consumer product, such as eCommerce, travel, marketplaces, or content-led platforms
- Strong domain experience in search, discovery, personalisation, or recommendation systems, ideally within high-traffic, high-volume environments
- Confidence working with complex, algorithm-driven systems, including ranking, relevance, and data-informed decisioning
- High technical fluency, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and data scientists and understand trade-offs around performance, scalability, and experimentation
- A deep understanding of customer intent and behaviour, and how search experiences influence discovery, decision-making, and conversion
- Strong analytical capability, comfortable defining metrics, interpreting data, and using experiments (A/B tests, multivariate tests) to guide prioritisation and validate impact
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to influence across disciplines and seniority levels while keeping teams aligned around outcomes
- Experience owning and delivering against OKRs, translating high-level goals into clear, actionable product plans
- A proactive, curious mindset with a bias for action, comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving problem spaces
What the job involves
- We’re building a high-impact product team focused on transforming how customers search and discover their ideal holiday
- As Senior Product Manager for Search, you’ll lead the strategy and execution for our Search experience
- Your work will directly shape how customers navigate large, complex inventories and find the holiday that’s right for them, faster, smarter, and more intuitively
- You’ll work closely with Engineering, Data Science, and UX to evolve search algorithms, ranking, filtering, and personalisation, unlocking significant improvements in relevance, conversion, and customer satisfaction
- What You’ll Be Working On :
- You’ll drive innovation across areas such as:
- Search & Discovery Experience: Designing and optimising how customers search, filter, and browse holidays, ensuring relevance, clarity, and ease of use at scale
- Personalised Search Results: Leveraging customer behaviour, intent, and context to personalise rankings, recommendations, and content across Search Results Pages
- Search Algorithms & Ranking: Partnering with Data Science to define, test, and deploy ranking, relevance, and learning-to-rank models
- Scalable Search Platforms: Evolving search infrastructure to support performance, experimentation, real-time decisioning, and increasing inventory complexity
- What you’ll be doing day to day:
- As a Senior Product Manager in Search, your day-to-day will balance strategic leadership with hands-on delivery
- You’ll spend your time shaping direction, making data-led decisions, and working closely with cross-functional teams to improve how millions of customers discover and choose their holidays
- Own and evolve the Search product vision and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with customer needs, business objectives, and our wider platform strategy
- Partner daily with Engineering, Data Science, and UX to design, build, test, and iterate on search, ranking, filtering, and discovery experiences
- Use customer insights, analytics, and experimentation to understand intent, relevance, and friction across the search journey, translating findings into prioritised product opportunities
- Define clear problem statements, hypotheses, and success metrics for initiatives, ensuring work is outcome-focused rather than output-driven
- Work closely with data scientists on relevance, ranking, and personalisation models — helping to frame problems, interpret results, and turn complex algorithmic behaviour into customer value
- Lead refinement, planning, and prioritisation activities, breaking down complex search challenges into clear, deliverable milestones
- Review performance of Search Results Pages (SRPs), filters, and ranking logic, identifying opportunities to improve conversion, engagement, and satisfaction
- Communicate progress, trade-offs, and impact clearly to senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted voice for Search across the business
- Continuously look for ways to improve how we work, championing experimentation, learning, and modern product practices within the Search domain
- Our full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work
Application process
- We’ll run a multi-stage interview process designed to give you a clear view of the role, the team, and how we work, while giving you the opportunity to showcase your experience and thinking
- Our process includes:
- An initial conversation with our People Team
- A Hiring Manager interview focused on your background, experience, and fit for the role
- A deeper interview loop covering:
- Product thinking and strategy
- Data, analytics, and experimentation
- Technical execution, collaboration, and leadership
- One stage may be an in-person interview at our Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre
Our take
With around 80% of UK citizens’ holidays booked online, On The Beach has become a challenger brand in the beach and package holiday sector. With around two million people using its platform to book their holidays abroad, it utilises brand partnerships to provide a wealth of discounts and deals for holidaymakers.
Having entered the London Stock Exchange in 2015, On The Beach has grown its brand since 2004. It shows no signs of slowing down either, with revenue surging in 2025 to set the company up for a new objective. It will now use its growing AI toolkit to disrupt the cruise holiday market, a fast-growing travel sector that the company has not yet capitalised on.
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Company benefits
- 📅25 days holiday
- 🥳 An extra day off on your birthday!
- 💷Option to buy extra annual leave
- Generous discount on holidays.. Plus two bonus days off (a take-off and landing day) to start and end your On the Beach holiday in the right way!
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working
- Access to Learnerbly learning platform
- With a personal allowance to support your own personal development
- Family friendly policies
- Including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Including access to free counselling and GP appointments
- Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
- Onsite subsidised coffee shop
- Sandbox (our very own bar)
- Gym discounts
- Food and drink discounts
- Regular social events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan
Company HQ
Manchester, UK
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Leadership
Shaun Morton
(CEO)Previously CFO at On The Beach, Director of Finance at ghd and a Senior Manager of Commercial Finance at Asda.
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