We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Product Owner within the discover group who thrives in a fast paced, collaborative environment and lives to delight the customer.
You will be responsible for delivering product excellence and innovation across multiple product teams. This is growing product and significant product group looking after email marketing, a communications platform which is in house, landing pages and SEO.
It’s particularly interesting as it touches on every part of the business and the products within this area are revenue generating. I will try to give you an understanding of scale, potential and growth of this group. We have over 7.5 million customers, 11 million page views a day, and send out 12 million emails a week. We have doubled bookings in circa 3.yrs and email has grown 25% year on year. As for potential as a business we only have 3% of the global market so lots to go after.
You will report directly into the Chief Product Officer and Chief Marketing Officer (members of the board). As part of a fast growing tech company, high performers can expect extensive opportunities for progression and development.
Key responsibilities
To successfully deliver change in a fast paced working environment you will need to: Develop a deep understanding of the current and future customer needs across all areas of the business – and how those needs interact with your product portfolio
Work with the Chief Product Office and other senior stakeholders to define the overall strategy and direction for your product portfolio
Build, lead and coach a team of Product Owners
Work with senior architects, heads of development, delivery and operations to design and deliver products and services to delight our customers
Be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of products within your portfolio
Work with product teams, coaches and engineering to drive continuous efficiency improvements
Communicate with key stakeholders to keep them up to date and bought into the product development process
You must:
Have 5+ years’ experience as a product owner or senior product owner, ideally in an ecommerce or travel related field
Have a proven track record of delivering successful, user-oriented products Have a background in Communication systems
Have Experience in SendGrid or other ESP’s/MTA’s Be marketing and commercially focussed
Be able to define and communicate product vision or strategy to others
Be commercially aware and have a strategic mind, able to identify business opportunities and deliver against them
Have great organisational skills, able to manage and deliver multiple products and projects simultaneously
Be highly analytical and methodical approach to problem solving
Have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate with the business at all levels
Understand what an exceptional user experience entails and how to deliver it whilst balancing against other competing priorities
Be a highly motivated self-starter with a flexible, can-do attitude Have experience of driving product development through all phases of the product lifecycle
About us
Rentalcars.com is the world’s largest online car rental booking service, arranging over 8.5 million rentals a year in more than 48,000 locations worldwide. We employ over 1,400 people from over 60 countries across 2 sites in Manchester city centre. As a part of Priceline Group, we are a member of the world’s leading and most valuable travel group. Other group companies include Booking.com, Priceline.com, Kayak, Agoda, and OpenTable. In 2015, Priceline was one of Fortunes “most admired companies” for the third year in a row, behind only Alphabet (Google), Facebook and Amazon in the tech space