Senior Product Manager

We believe that we are better together, and at Tripadvisor we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform.

At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique identities, abilities, and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

Please read the following job description thoroughly to ensure you are the right fit for this role before applying.

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager for our Hotels Partner Product team who is partner and user-centric and data-driven to help innovate and execute product initiatives across the team.

You have a bias for action, are motivated by delivering results, and are passionate about solving customer problems. This position is within the team that enables commerce in a two-sided marketplace of travelers and advertisers (Online Travel Agencies, Hotel Chains, and Independent Hotels).

In this role, you will need to focus on both sides of the platform, finding solutions that are beneficial to the consumers and business customers alike.

You are likely to tackle important areas of our product and platform, such as Auction, Pricing, and Connectivity. You will influence the product strategy and roadmap, produce specifications that evolve the platform’s feature set for both internal and external customers, and work closely with engineering to ensure quality deliverables on time.

What You'll Do

• Thrive in the ecosystem of Hotels Meta Auction, Connectivity, and the broader Hotel Technology stack.
• Develop products and features that benefit partners and users, while driving the best results for Tripadvisor.
• Understand and influence the product strategy of the Hotels Team; actively contribute to roadmap planning.
• Develop requirements and specifications that are informed by the product strategy, competitive positioning, customer feedback, technical feasibility, and your unique insight.
• Lead cross-functional teams throughout the software development lifecycle, owning the product from conception through launch to maturity and support.
• Own your product area end to end : from back-end of working with partners, connecting and sourcing necessary data and resources, all the way to surfacing it to the travelers on the front end.
• Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, and directly with customers and partners, to ensure continuous two-way communication.
• Be data-driven - always keep your metrics and measurement in mind. Wherever possible, use data to inform and strengthen your argument.

Be comfortable to roll up your sleeves and dive into the data.

Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of high-scale internet product management experience. Experience with two-sided platforms and API technologies is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills. Able to ask the right questions, interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and formulate effective action plans to resolve issues.
• Strong technical skills. Able to dive into APIs and other software architecture and design tradeoff discussions with engineering teams internally and externally.
• Strong user centricity. Keeping the end user in mind all along and making sure your products and features will improve the user experience.
• Good business judgment when making decisions and understanding the relevance / impact of each decision on the strategic direction of the team and the business.
• Self-motivation, autonomy, and tenacity - you have a track record of taking on complex and broad problem sets, creating structure, mobilizing teams, and pushing forward through challenges.

All while staying transparent and knowing when to ask for help.

• Ability to exhibit concise, clear communication across a variety of audiences across the organization. Spanning a variety of seniority levels, with the ability to clearly communicate up, down, and across the company.
• High attention to detail and the ability to effectively lead multiple projects simultaneously.
• Comfortable with and adaptable to change. We work in an innovative fast-growth environment where products and processes evolve rapidly.
• Teamwork skills are essential because we are better together.
• Passionate about travel.

The salary range for this role is $155,000 to $175,000. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.

We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. An employee’s pay position within the wage range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

This compensation range may also be modified in the future.

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at [email protected].

If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at [email protected]. We have all the answers!

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