Technical Product Manager, KAYAK
Experimentation Platform
$140-155k
3 days a week in office (Concord, MA)
Travel search engine
Be an early applicant
Travel search engine
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$140-155k
3 days a week in office (Concord, MA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in product management, technical product management, or platform product management within a technology environment — equivalent experience, training, or transferable skills are considered
- Strong knowledge of experimentation methodologies, including A/B testing concepts, statistical foundations (significance, power, confidence intervals, multiple comparisons, and sequential testing), trade-offs, and common pitfalls
- Experience owning complex products or platforms with multiple collaborators and technical dependencies
- Strong product and project management skills, including roadmap definition, prioritization, and cross-functional execution
- Comfort working with engineers and data practitioners on technically complex topics
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- High ownership, sound judgment, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority
- Experience reading and writing SQL
Desirable
- Hands-on familiarity with the statistics underpinning experimentation — power and sample-size planning, confidence intervals, multiple testing / false discovery, and sequential or group-sequential analysis
What the job involves
- KAYAK is seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead the development and evolution of its experimentation platform
- This is a role with global scope and clear accountability for the roadmap, prioritization, adoption, and success of a strategic platform that supports A/B testing today and will expand over time to broader testing use cases across the company!
- You will work closely with Engineering, Data, and Product partners and help a small cross-functional team deliver a platform that enables faster, more trusted decision-making across KAYAK
- Own the roadmap for KAYAK's experimentation platform, aligning priorities with business goals and platform needs
- Define and communicate a clear product direction, from current A/B testing capabilities to broader testing use cases over time
- Partner closely with Engineering, Data, and Product teams to shape features, requirements, and implementation plans
- Translate user needs and ambiguous asks into clear product requirements and well-scoped initiatives
- Define success metrics, drive adoption, and continuously improve the platform through data and partner feedback
- Improve experiment setup, execution, monitoring, analysis, and decision-making workflows across the platform
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.
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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
East Side of Stamford, 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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