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Product Owner - Hybrid working model
lastminute.comMadrid, Germany, GermanyRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Feb 2023
About the role
<h3>Company Description</h3><p>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".</p><p>lastminute.com is the European Travel-Tech leader in the dynamic holiday packages business, uniquely positioned to drive innovation-led growth.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>The lastminute.com Product team is looking for a new colleague! Our product vision is to “build products people love and serve the business”. So as a <strong>Product Owner/Manager</strong>, you love to create great customer experiences. You are skilled at understanding the Why, the How and the What of building products to deliver impact.</p><p>Experience is definitely important, but we’re looking for a person with the right mindset: proactive, motivated, passionate about creating amazing user experiences, obsessed with data, friendly, team player and an honest and fun person to be around with. </p><p>You will be responsible for one of the core areas of our online users journey, our Bundled travel online shopping and booking platform experience. Working with several highly motivated and skilled cross functional teams and business/market unit to consolidate our different user experiences while continuously innovating by leveraging one of our core products. </p><p> </p><p><strong>As a Product Manager, you:</strong></p><ul><li>Try to understand the “why” behind our customers` problems and define strategy and product objectives for the responsible area and beyond</li><li>See your work through the traveller’s eyes, creating solutions for the customer journey, thinking beyond its parts</li><li>Are very strong in delivering an amazing user experience together with your cross-functional team</li><li>Work incredibly hard to keep things incredibly simple</li><li>Use lean approaches to break down big ideas into valuable pieces to deliver at fast pace</li><li>Are obsessed with data and skillful in collecting, interpreting and translating data into actionable insights to support product and business decisions (incl. A/B testing, User Testing, Analytics, Market Research, Competitor Analysis, Defining Metrics and KPIs)</li><li>Have an entrepreneurial mindset with a flexible, can-do attitude</li><li>Want to deliver impact, able to influence product management and engineering teams</li><li>Experience working with agile teams and aligning with stakeholders to deliver with fast time-to-market, quality and ownership</li><li>Have strong communication skills to navigate a dynamic organisation across multiple countries and cultures</li><li>Are highly proficient in spoken and written English (we are an international team).</li><li>Abilities in the German language will be a plus.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>You’d be a great fit if: </strong></p><ul><li>You have 5+ years professional experience in an agile B2B digital/e-commerce business environment as a product person. Experience in travel industry, especially in Tour Operators prebundled products distribution is a huge plus. </li><li>You have a proven track record in leading product iterations on acquisition, activation, discovery, engagement and checkout in a cross functional environment.</li><li>You are strong insteering other Product Owners from a functional and leadership role</li><li>You are tech literate and can lead conversations with software engineers effectively both in discovery and delivery phases</li><li>You have supported the creation of efficient user experience design flow in different markets</li><li>You have command of data around you products, through which you created global B2C successful iterations</li><li>You have steered your products to success as defined by KPIs set within stakeholders from all relevant departments in your company</li><li>You have contributed to the definition of your product str
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