Product Manager, KAYAK
Mobile
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
- This position requires a proven understanding of consumer behavior and the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to iterate on and prioritize features
- You are an effective communicator, know how to use quantitative and qualitative data to facilitate discussion, understand how to define and work towards a product direction, successfully drive concepts from business requirements to launch, support and iteration
- Proven consumer mind-set with preference for e-commerce and B2C mobile background
- Specific experience in supporting and leading mobile product strategy, including a proven record of championing products and work towards key decisions
- 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 love of numbers is a requirement
- Ability to collaborate with teams across different cultures and timezones
- A regular traveler and appreciative to the challenges our users encounter
What the job involves
- KAYAK is seeking an expert, analytical and hardworking product manager to join our product team in Berlin, Germany
- In this role, you will be responsible for understanding our travelers’ needs and translating those needs into a set of flawless and intelligent mobile experiences that our users love!
- Define and communicate priorities for our Android apps to support KAYAK’s product vision and address known gaps in functionality and content offerings
- Collaborate with meta product owners in prioritizing and implementing core search features on the Android app
- Facilitate the ideation, design and implementation of product improvements that solve our users’ problems in significant ways, weighing impact against business goals and technical feasibility
- Define and prioritize user problems and feature specifications across various brands, locales and languages
- Measure the success of product changes and design and pursue relevant metrics and opportunities our data and A/B experiment results might reveal
- Collaborate with customer support and UX to collect feedback from and respond to users in a timely way
- Supervise competitive landscape and staying abreast of the latest mobile technology and capabilities across various platforms
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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