Product Manager, HomeAway Software

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Opportunity

Are you a strong product leader who is interested in making their mark on the online travel industry? HomeAway is an exciting, international, profitable company that is transforming the market to become the world’s leading vacation rental marketplace.

We are expanding the HomeAway Software team, which helps over 7,000 vacation rental managers and innkeepers run their business through streamlined operations. As a member of the Product Management team, you will lead one of our cloud-based offerings that helps vacation rental managers scale their businesses and drive additional bookings. Today, our products provide a broad set of capabilities to manage vacation rentals including front-desk support, calendar availability, dynamic rates, credit card processing, accounting, reporting, and distribution to leading sites such as VRBO.com and HomeAway.com.

As part of the Product Management team, the Product Manager contributes to the success of the team by managing the overall product lifecycle, setting the strategic vision and product roadmap based on extensive market research, defining requirements, and collaborating with development to design, implement, test, refine and deploy new features. The Product Manager will serve as product expert combining industry analysis, end-user feedback, and development knowledge to establish a product vision, multi-year solution roadmap, and an effective engineering partnership to deliver world-class solutions that focus on product excellence.

Primary Responsibilities

- Drive the product vision and roadmap for our cloud-based software in pursuit of product excellence.

- Engage with our user community and industry experts to understand the evolving needs of our market.

- Define product feature requirements that meet specific goals and target metrics.

- Partner with Customer Support to delight the customer and drive NPS.

- Collaborate daily with the Development team to ensure projects are clearly defined and properly phased to facilitate timely delivery of functionality.

- Manage resolution of urgent technical issues while communicating changes to business stakeholders.

- Launch new products by collaborating with design and product marketing on go-to-market and lifecycle marketing strategies.

- Track and report on key metrics (e.g. adoption, conversion).

- Work with the executive management team to ensure they are fully engaged in product launch decisions.

Candidate Profile

To be considered for this position, you must have demonstrated relevant and current expertise in directing the product strategy of business-to-business and consumer-facing products. Product Managers should be passionate about well-designed online and mobile products, end user experience and current and evolving best practices in software development.

- 3+ years of Product Management experience in a high-tech company.

- Proven track record managing multiple ongoing complex projects and implementation of web applications (SaaS preferred), while delivering on schedule.

- Ability to manage large, complex projects in a fast-paced environment.

- Demonstrated experience in adopting product management best practices, standards and policies.

- Ability to collaborate closely with our Design and UX teams to drive product enhancements.

- Ability to interface with geographically disperse teams.

- Strong communication and presentation skills.

- High level of initiative and desire to create a world-class user experience for our customers.

- Agile development and Rally/JIRA experience preferred.

- Experience in the travel vertical is a plus.

- BS or BA in related field.

- Must be willing to travel 10%

Benefits:

- Great Medical & Dental Plans

- Highly competitive salary

- Target Annual Bonus

- 4 weeks Paid Vacation

- Free Vacation Rental on a Yearly Basis (taxable benefit)

- Ability to work up to two weeks in any of our offices around the world on a yearly basis

- Free Snacks

- Weekly company update talks with our leadership team

- Free Listing on HomeAway.com

- Stand-Up Desk

- Company Stock (RSUs)

- Employee Stock Purchase Program

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