Principal Product Manager, Lodging Pricing

About the job
Product Managers at Hopper are “smart creatives” that will take the Hopper app from a disruptive, startup product to being the global leader in mobile travel.
As a Product Manager, you will work at the intersection of development, data science, and user experience, as well as have a competitive understanding of the travel landscape to facilitate the creation of successful new features.
In the Hopper Lodging Pricing team, we are constantly identifying better ways to surface our best inventory to our customers and ensuring we hold ourselves to being the “Best place to book a stay”.
This includes defining our pricing and selection strategy as well working with our commercial teams to develop technology solutions that materially impact our business. 
Product Managers for this team must be highly competent in analyzing and understanding data, scrappy, creative, hands-on “doers” and strong facilitators that can find innovative ways to build up the Hotels product and create a unique, differentiated experience for our users that no travel technology has been able to do before.
This role has a tremendous impact on the vision and success of the company. It's a unique opportunity to join one of Hopper's strategic team.
It’s a huge personal growth opportunity and includes high potential upside of pre-IPO stock options.

What would your day-to-day look like:

• Manage a product roadmap for a set of features from inception through implementation; collect requirements, establish key performance metrics, craft the user experience, and drive execution
• Understand and explain complex technical issues, discern impact, and communicate them to maximize clarity and drive resolution
• Collaborate closely with data science to dive deep into our data to understand our users
• Work with business leaders to help shape and drive business cases for product features 
• Ideate and wireframe new features that will be in the hands of millions of users across the globe
• Identify the essential qualities of each feature: what's important, what's not, how can we limit cost and risk?
• Use good judgment to make appropriate trade-offs when scoping and specifying solutions, ensuring that anything we build adds value to the business and continues to delight our users

An ideal candidate has:

• Enjoy untangling complex problems and diving deep into data in a methodical manner
• Experience with data analytics and A/B testing in a highly metrics driven environment
• Comfortable with SQL, analyzing data and building out data dashboardsHave an innovative and detail-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Have the instinct to get on a whiteboard and explain their thinking, and even faster to document that thinking into expected use cases and user behaviors, driving UX for new features from start to finish
• Have a high level of ownership and high bias for action
• Have experience connecting innovative solutions to real-world, user problems with actual business needs of a rapidly scaling organization
• Have technical depth that allows them to communicate with, understand, and earn the respect of world-class engineers and data scientists
• Have a strong focus on doing what is right for the customer and the company without ego
• A track record of being proactive and persuading colleagues by constructing a compelling narrative both in-person and in-writing
• Past success analyzing data, drawing accurate conclusions, and adjusting strategy accordingly
• Experience with mobile product development strongly preferred
• Experience with GDS, CRS, airline, hotel and/or other travel systems (a plus)
• Experience writing SQL, querying APIs and the ability to brainstorm solutions with the engineering team 
• Have a go-getter attitude, comfortable with learning whatever they need to to move the team forward.

Perks of working with us:

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• WeWork All Access Pass OR Work-from-home stipend
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business
• Open communication with management and company leadership
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
• 100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
• Access to a 401k

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More about Hopper
At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally – powering Hopper’s mobile app, website and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility and saving