Description
Job Details
Experience
• 15+ plus years progressive work experience
• At least 5 years’ experience in product management, product development, product marketing, or operations
• Must have direct hands-on hotel experience
• Preferred: Hospitality Industry experience, covering the entire guest journey (reservation/booking, stay)
• Preferred: Experience leading a team of product managers,
Roles & Responsibilities
• Identify and analyze gaps between current processes and desired state and document process requirements on cross functional and complex projects.
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Analysis of processes and software
capabilities including system process analysis, design, and prototyping, as
well as develop alternative design solutions, advise on options, risks, costs,
and impact on other business processes and/or systems.
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Responsible for collaborating with business
partners to assist a delivery team to produce technical solutions to address
complex business needs.
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Create and validate recommended test scripts
and scenarios working with testing team for large cross functional complex
projects.
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Create user stories and support features
development in an Agile software engineering environment
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Co-create the product strategy and make
data-driven decisions with the product team
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Guide the product team on product road map
decisions
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Guide the product team on developing
hypotheses and performing experiments
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Guide the product team on creating user
stories and ensuring data instrumentation of new features
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Partner with research, analytics, data science
& operations teams to deeply understand, analyze, and synthesize customer
and company needs into product priorities, roadmaps, and detailed
specifications.
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Partner with development team leadership and
maximize development team efforts
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Take responsibility for and proactively manage
the profit and loss associated with the product portfolio
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Provide guidance on the technical stack used
for the product portfolio and integration points with other products
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Develop a deep understanding of the market as
well as our customers, their pains and jobs-to-be-done. Systematically analyze
user feedback
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Know the competitive landscape and
differentiate a product portfolio through innovation and positioning
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Lead engagement with cross-functional teams (Sales,
Legal, Marketing, Security, and more) and drive outcomes
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Perform team reviews and regularly engage with
team members to drive individual success
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Manage development and services purchased
budget, tracking, invoicing, and reporting
Job Requirements
• Work is remote with limited travel: 5-10% of time. On-site can be an option
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BS in business, engineering, or a related
field; MBA would be a significant plus
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Preferred: degree in the hotel or tourism
industry
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Excellent soft skills like communication
(written and verbal fluency in English), collaboration, facilitation, and
adaptability, to compliment your hard skills.
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Passion for delivering a remarkable customer
experience and can develop a deep understanding of our products and their use
cases.
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Able to build empathy for our customers and
their problems.
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Track record of leading and proactively
managing end-to-end execution of projects and processes.
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Experience with a variety of product tools
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Data-driven mindset and experience with SQL or
a willingness to learn.
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Great at explaining highly technical
initiatives to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Comfortable and able to execute in a highly
ambiguous, fluid environment
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Highly collaborative and constantly learning
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Excellent problem-solving ability
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Strong ownership and accountability; strong
work ethic
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Non-territorial and non-political; more
focused on the good of the company than his or her own personal agenda. Shares
information freely with leaders, peers, and team
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Strong bias for action and a results-oriented
sense of urgency
Fearless attitude and sense of humor