Director of Digital Product (m/f/d)

<p>At HomeToGo, we’re on a mission to make incredible accommodation easily accessible for everyone. Our team is united by a passion for travel, driven by innovation and impact, and guided by open-minded leaders at every level. Our commitment to recognizing and empowering exceptional talent is the foundation of our growth. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!</p><p>We’re looking for a hands-on, impact driven Director of Digital Product to lead the evolution of our customer facing tools and experiences. This role is designed for a confident and proactive product leader who thrives in dynamic environments and is deeply comfortable shaping scalable, user-centric solutions within the travel industry. </p><p>You will have a proven track record of aligning cross-functional product strategies with real-time user needs delivering meaningful experiences to both guests and hosts, across B2C and B2B audiences while driving cultural, operational, and digital transformation.</p><p>Your background demonstrates a well balanced focus across both consumer and business-facing platforms, reinforcing your commitment to exceptional outcomes whether the end user is an individual traveller or a major host solution. You will be highly skilled at influencing within a matrixed organisation, where success often depends on collaboration with teams beyond your direct line of leadership but you still thrive on owning the product outcome end to end.</p><p>You’ll be confident navigating complex, high volume user journeys under time pressure, with a deep understanding of the demands of seasonal or event driven traffic patterns. You will play a critical role in shaping and scaling the systems that underpin our host and guest interactions—ensuring they remain resilient, intuitive, and uniquely valuable across the wider HomeToGo group.</p><ul><li>Lead the end-to-end agile product lifecycle across customer facing B2C and B2B platforms prioritising speed, scalability, and reliability in tools that serve both guests and hosts with a data informed approach.</li><li>Partner closely with group functions, business leaders, and commercial stakeholders to translate customer and business insight into high-impact digital product outcomes.</li><li>Champion cross-functional collaboration to drive iterative improvement, knowledge sharing, and shared success across product, design, engineering, and operations.</li><li>Establish and embed OMKI (HomeToGo OKR) driven processes to ensure the platforms and services you oversee are continuously evolving to support growth, innovation, and operational resilience.</li><li>Leverage your experience with enterprise-grade platforms (such as SAP, Salesforce, AWS, Jira) to inform product decision-making and platform strategy.</li><li>Maintain consistent, high-quality delivery across distributed teams ensuring clear ownership, prioritisation, and a strong results focus in line with expectations in a public company context.</li><li>Serve as the connective tissue between guest and host experience needs, commercial goals, and the technical execution required to realise them.</li><li>Partner with group, business line stakeholders, and functional leads to turn opportunities into outcomes.</li></ul><ul><li><strong>Demonstrate a proven track record of fast, impactful delivery </strong>– delivering digital product outcomes at pace without compromising quality or customer experience.</li><li><strong>Bring deep operational experience in tech-enabled product organisations</strong> – leading hands-on within a matrixed or group structure (experience in travel tech is a plus, but not essential).</li><li><strong>Apply strong commercial acumen and technical fluency</strong> – bridging commercial objectives with technical delivery, and translating across business and engineering without loss of clarity.</li><li><strong>Embrace accountability and an outcome-driven mindset </strong>– taking ownership of results, learning quickly from setbacks, and motivating others to stay focused on value delivery.</li><li><strong>Foster collaborative and influential cross-functional leadership</strong> – bringing together product, design, engineering, and stakeholders with transparency and trust to drive unified direction.</li><li><strong>Adopt a systemic view with a pragmatic execution style</strong> – stepping back to identify platform-wide patterns and constraints, while also diving into operational detail when needed.</li><li><strong>Exhibit strong data fluency and a product analytics mindset </strong>– leveraging data to inform decision-making, define success metrics, and validate hypotheses.</li><li><strong>Manage complex, time-critical decisions with confidence</strong> – balancing near-term delivery with long-term product evolution, and prioritising effectively in a dynamic environment.</li><li><strong>Champion a results-oriented, iterative mindset </strong>– believing in shipping value early and often,