Product Director

Company Description

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".

lastminute.com is part of lm group, a publicly-traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry. Every month, the Group 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.

Job Description

lastminute.com is looking for a Product Director to join our team and take full responsibility for our entire product line. In this role, you will act as a bridge between different departments such as Business, Marketing and Technology. Reporting directly to our Chief Business Officer, you will be responsible for:

 

  • Understand the Company’s strategy, USPs and deliver products supporting it
  • Lead a team through the ideation, technical development, and launch 
  • Drive product development together with engineering team
  • Drive collaboration with Value Stream and Business Platform owners
  • Attract, build and grow team of product managers 
  • Integrate usability studies, research and market analysis into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction
  • Define and analyze metrics that allow to monitor success of products and business
  • Manage multiple products and priorities, scale teams, and ensure org is effective, healthy and set up for success by establishing clear and measurable goals
  • Develop, implement and maintain process to ensure productive collaboration and smooth delivery 

Qualifications

Skills and Experience

 

  • You have 7+ years of experience as  Product Management Lead,  ideally in B2C
  • Have an entrepreneurial mindset with a flexible, can-do attitude
  • Want to deliver impact, able to influence product management and engineering teams
  • Have strong communication skills to navigate a dynamic organization across multiple countries
  • proactive, motivated, passionate about creating amazing user experiences, friendly, team player and an honest and fun person to be around with
  • You have experience working in Digital and eCommerce businesses
  • Familiarity with state-of-the-art product management methods including product discovery, design thinking and product delivery methods 
  • Are highly proficient in spoken and written English (we are an international team)