Mobile App Product Manager - Remote working model

Company Description

Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised in creating amazing experiences and unforgettable memories - from hotels, city breaks and holidays to theatre, entertainment and spa days. Experts in brightening up online travel, lastminute.com is among the worldwide leaders in the field, helping hundreds of thousands of customers every year find, and do, "whatever makes them pink".

lastminute.com is the European Travel-Tech leader in the dynamic holiday packages business, uniquely positioned to drive innovation-led growth.

Every month, lastminute.com reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to provide our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel related products and services.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment of inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

Job Description

We are on a mission to enrich the life of travellers as we want to be the most relevant and inspiring travel company!

We are currently seeking a highly motivated and talented Product Manager to join our Mobile App team. Our current team covers all the main responsibilities (product / development / copy / design / analysis), but as we plan to grow the team, we are looking for a second PM to boost our mobile app.  We believe in small and effective teams with a high level of autonomy and accountability. We have high ambitions to grow our mobile App share in the company, so it’s a very exciting moment to join the team!

As a Product Manager, you are skilled at understanding the Why, the How and the What of building great viable products which keeps high product-market fit over time, delivering impact at scale on millions of users. You also know how to acquire new users and optimise the retention rate to grow our user base.

Previous mobile experience is definitely needed; however, we’re looking for a person with the growth mindset to be a fit across the team: proactive, motivated, passionate about creating amazing mobile user experiences, friendly, team player and an honest and fun professional to be around with.

Key Responsibilities

As a Mobile App Product Manager at lastminute.com, you:

• In coordination with the other PM, are the owner of the success of your product area by defining, monitoring and managing a set of KPIs.
• Contribute to the definition of your product strategy.
• Lead the entire product lifecycle of your initiatives from conception to delivery and beyond, and work closely with cross-functional teams through every step: business & user needs definition, concept, design, test, release, analysis.
• Drive the execution of the roadmap by maintaining a clear set of priorities, helping remove blockers, maintaining alignment with stakeholders and web teams when needed, prioritising the product backlog, coordinating with the team about the rollouts.
• Conduct user research and allow a continuous discovery process with every source of user feedback (interviews, Store reviews, etc.)
• In collaboration with the analyst, monitor and analyse product metrics to identify opportunities for optimization and growth, and measure the success of the last releases.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure that the app is user-friendly and visually appealing.
• Collaborate with the team to ensure the quality of the releases.
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders to keep them informed of product progress and solicit feedback.
• Challenge our current ways of working, and continuously learn and share knowledge about Product and the App world.

Qualifications

Essentials

We are looking for someone who has:

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner / Product Manager, in the mobile app space.
• Knowledge about React Native apps, or both iOS/Android apps.
• Experience in Apps for the European market.
• Product mindset, and experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Demonstrable experience to turn concepts into product iterations. You have led product iterations integrating user research and data analysis that have a proven impact on the success and KPI of your products.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and coll