Principal Product Manager, MarTech
About Skyscanner Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻. Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍. Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here) About The Role (Hybrid) Own our growth engine: We’re seeking an experienced Product Management leader to take the helm on a significant slice of Skyscanner’s product—accelerating how we find, win and delight travellers through SEM, Display, Metasearch, Affiliate channels, and powering personalisation with a sophisticated MarTech platform. You’ll shape strategy, connect dots across Marketing, Product, Engineering and Data, and empower teams to deliver at pace. You’ll directly lead 2 Product Managers and partner closely with 50+ Engineers aligned to MarTech to turn big bets into real impact—fast. You’ll be working in lockstep with Engineering, Design, Data and Marketing — the classic Skyscanner cross-functional groove. What You’ll Be Doing
- Setting the growth strategy: Define and execute the acquisition product strategy across SEM, Display, Metasearch and Affiliate channels to reach new travellers and re-engage existing ones—efficiently and at scale.
- Building the MarTech spine: Design and evolve our marketing data and user-record platform to enable robust, compliant tracking and trustworthy personalisation.
- Powering performance data: Develop and maintain marketing performance datasets and a resilient data framework (click-stream and beyond) that integrates with partners like Google, Bing and Meta seamlessly.
- Leading cross-functional delivery: Provide direction for Product, Engineering, Design and Data Science teams; remove blockers and keep momentum high.
- Owning the lifecycle: Shepherd initiatives from discovery to launch, ensuring we ship high-quality experiences on time—and learn fast when we don’t.
- Measuring what matters: Define KPIs, run experiments/A-B tests, review outcomes regularly and pivot to maximise traveller value and financial success.
- Road mapping & storytelling: Craft, maintain and evangelise a clear short- and long-term roadmap; align senior stakeholders with crisp, data-led narratives.
- Seasoned and channel-savvy: 10+ years’ experience, including 5+ in PM for marketing platforms/SEM/Metasearch, ideally in high-scale consumer tech.
- Strategic problem-solver: Comfortable with ambiguity and net-new problems; you blend sharp product thinking with rigorous data analysis.
- Stakeholder whisperer: Exceptional influence and communication skills—able to align diverse groups and secure buy-in up to board level.
- Experiment obsessed: You design and interpret tests (A/B, user testing), leverage analytics, market/competitor research, and define the right metrics/KPIs.
- Technically fluent: Strong enough under the hood to collaborate deeply with engineers; SQL/R/Python/Spark familiarity and knowledge of advanced analytical methods.
- Builder of people & culture: Coach and mentor PMs, champion pace without sacrificing quality, and act as a cultural ambassador for inclusive, high-performing teams.
- Agile to the core: Lean mindset, rapid test-and-learn, pragmatic prioritisation—and yes, a genuine passion for travel.