Staff Product Manager, Hostaway

AI - 100% Remote - EMEA

Salary not provided

+ Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

Vacation rental software for property managers

Open for applications

Vacation rental software for property managers

201-500 employees

HospitalityB2BTravelMarketplaceSharing EconomyRentingSaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

201-500 employees

HospitalityB2BTravelMarketplaceSharing EconomyRentingSaaS

Company mission

To partner with property managers in the growth of their business by providing solutions to achieve their goals.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

7+ years of product management experience, ideally in SaaS, including ownership of complex and ambiguous product areas
Proven experience shaping strategy beyond a single feature or team, ideally across multiple products or a company-level domain
Strong practical understanding of LLMs and AI product development, including prompting, model tradeoffs, latency, cost, context limits, and quality risks
Experience defining and using evaluation sets, quality benchmarks, and feedback loops for AI-powered products
Experience with agentic AI concepts, including tool use, planning, and orchestration
Experience evaluating and integrating off-the-shelf AI solutions, including APIs, SaaS tools, and third-party platforms
Highly data-driven, with strong judgment in using metrics, experiments, and customer insight to make decisions
Demonstrated AI-native curiosity and fluency, with a clear habit of staying current as models, tools, and best practices evolve

What the job involves

Hostaway AI creates value by streamlining routine work, improving decision-making, and simplifying complex tasks across the property management lifecycle
As Staff Product Manager, AI, you will define and drive Hostaway’s company-wide AI product strategy, identifying where AI can create meaningful customer and business value across our platform
This role is for an AI-native product leader who combines strong product judgment, customer empathy, and analytical rigor
You do not need to build AI models yourself, but you must understand how LLM-based products work in practice, how to evaluate them with discipline, and how to translate a rapidly evolving AI landscape into clear roadmap decisions and reliable product experiences
Define and own Hostaway’s AI product strategy and roadmap across the company
Plan and execute thorough customer research and analysis to deeply understand the needs and pain of property managers translating those insights along with legal requirements into product specifications and user stories
Identify the highest-impact AI opportunities across customer workflows, product areas, and internal operations
Partner with engineering, design, data, and GTM teams to deliver AI-powered experiences that solve real customer problems
Establish clear approaches to AI evaluation, including quality benchmarks, eval sets, failure modes, and success metrics
Use product, customer, and performance data to prioritize investments and improve AI quality over time
Assess build vs. buy decisions across LLMs, APIs, AI tools, and third-party solutions
Stay on top of changes in models, tooling, and AI product patterns, and translate them into product strategy
Influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to align around clear priorities, tradeoffs, and outcomes
AI-powered features are seamlessly embedded into Hostaway’s SaaS product
Customer workflows feel smarter, faster, and more personalized thanks to the integrations you build with the team
AI services are stable, observable, and easy to maintain
You become the go-to person for the Hostaway AI product vision and capabilities across the company

Application process

Thank you for your interest. If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied

Our take

Hostaway is an all-in-one vacation rental software solution designed to help property owners streamline and grow their businesses. Hostaway’s product provides property owners a way to present their services to the wider market, making them available on different platforms through the use of its multi-integration software.

What makes Hostaway unique is its comprehensive property management ecosystem. Beyond just listings, the platform allows clients to manage their properties across a wide range of platforms, including Airbnb, Booking.com, and HomeAway. It also integrates with other key services like Stripe, Expedia, and Tripadvisor, offering customisable solutions that support the diverse needs of vacation rental hosts.

It also had impressive growth over the past five years, with revenue doubling to tripling each year. Alongside this, it raised substantial funding in 2024 to fuel its expansion across Europe and accelerate product development. This, in turn, resulted in Hostaway becoming the first Unicorn in the STR PMS sector. With its strong track record and clear vision for the future, Hostaway has a clear road ahead.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

84% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.5)

Trustpilot (4.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Dec 2024

$401.2m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

May 2023

$175m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $579m

Company benefits

Company stock options provided to every role
Career advancement opportunities
Dynamic international culture

Company HQ

Kamppi, Helsinki, Uusimaa

Leadership

Marcus Räder

(Co-Founder & CEO)

They have previously served as Product Manager and then Advertising Operations Manager at Kiosked, before moving to be Product Manager at Yousician.

Saber Kordestanchi

(Co-Founder & CSO)

They co-founded OrumITC before moving to serve as a Software Engineer at booncon and then Kiosked. They were CTO and COO at Hostaway before becoming CSO.

Ken Weary

(COO)

An accomplished international SaaS Executive and Operations Leader specializing in scaling B2B companies to new heights. They joined Hostaway in 2024 as COO.

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