HouseTrip is Europe’s largest holiday rental booking website with over 1.5 million visits from unique visitors every month and thousands of transactions
We’re currently looking for an exceptional Product Manager who’s after a career-defining role in what Wired Magazine ranked the number two start-up in Europe (2012).
HouseTrip’s product management team works closely with creative and prolific engineers to help design and develop technologies that simplify the renting out and booking of holiday rentals. Our Guests & Hosts are firmly at the centre of our marketplace and their needs drive our user-centric approach to product development.
Reporting to the CEO, you will bridge technical and business worlds as you continually deliver product and then zoom out to assess whether the business impact of what you have developed was as expected. You have a bias for action and can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development at great speed.
Responsibilities
- Launch products
- Break down high-level product challenges into product vision and strategy
- Understand customer needs and gather product requirements
- Develop new products and enhance existing products
- Engage closely with the engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as assist product-wise throughout execution
- Engage closely with the design team to translate your wireframes into awesome graphic designs
Required skills and experience
Essential
- E-commerce or marketplace experience is a MUST
- 2 years + of hands-on product management experience
- Ability to creatively solve challenging business/technology problems
- Strong analytical skills
- Demonstrable experience gathering business requirements and turning them into detailed functional specifications, preferably in an Agile Environment
- Familiarity with web-based product development including data organisation, and performance optimisation
- A proven track record of delivering and operating complex yet scalable Internet software systems
- Strong experience with AB testing and/or multivariate testing
- Entrepreneurial drive with appreciation of user-experience, business, and commercial issues
- Demonstrate a strong sense of urgency in your work
- Fluent in English (essential)
- Computer Science/ Math degree with strong academic record will be an asset
Your profile:
- Confident
- Solid communication skills
- Embraces simplicity
- Exacting attention to detail
- Ambitious
- Bring high levels of energy and enthusiasm
- Self motivated
- Embraces innovation and change – open to new ideas
Why should you join us?
- Be part of something BIG. We’re a fast-growing, human-sized, well-funded Internet Business, where the opportunities for growth and personal development are vast.
- Join a data-driven environment which empowers its staff to execute.
- Have an impact on a booming business, where you can make a real difference and be part of our success story.