Sr. Product Manager - Partner Rates

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HomeAway, a world leader in the vacation rental industry, is the place to book beach houses, cabins, and condos with more than two million places to stay in 190 countries. The site makes it easy to find and book the perfect vacation rental for any getaway, often for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. HomeAway is part of the Expedia Group family of brands.

The Opportunity:

HomeAway is an exciting, international, profitable company that is transforming the market to become the world’s leading vacation rental marketplace. We are searching for a Product Manager to join HomeAway's partner experience team to define and build products that support our partners: vacation rental owners and property managers. Specifically, you will lead rates initiatives providing partners the tools they need to optimize their own profits. As a part of the product management team, you possess a unique blend of business insight, user experience and technical skills. You will serve as a product expert, combining industry analysis, extensive market research, end-user feedback and site usage data to lead the overall product lifecycle: setting the strategic vision and product roadmap, defining requirements, collaborating with design and development to define, implement, deploy, a/b test, measure, and refine new features to deliver a premier partner experience for managing vacation rentals.

Responsibilities:

  • Create roadmap and lead priorities for your product
  • Manage the portfolio lifecycle and solutions from planning to end-user adoption
  • Work with the executive management team to ensure they are fully engaged in tactical planning decisions
  • Conduct market research, identify potential commercially available solutions, and maintain existing and new vendor relationships
  • Work closely with UX designers to research, define, and test next generation experiences that increase the adoption of the products, improve conversion of new customers, and improve customer satisfaction
  • Work closely with customer experience and sales to ingest user feedback from the field
  • Actively participate in agile product development process for roadmap implementation, writing product requirements, user stories, and maintaining the product backlog of priorities in close collaboration with design and engineering
  • Define data and reporting requirements and drive implementation with the data engineering and business analytics teams
  • Design, implement and analyze a/b tests to optimize the user experience and drive key performance metrics
  • Meet frequently with business partners to develop a deep understanding of their business process and needs
  • Relate policies and complex process into product capability to support the portfolio vision and roadmap
  • Manage a set of projects across the full software development process; execution, status reporting and coordination against project plans and delivery commitments
  • Launch new products by collaborating with customer service, product marketing and marketing on go-to-market and lifecycle marketing strategies
  • Manage resolution of urgent technical issues while communicating changes to business partners

Requirements:

  • Product Managers should possess strong business insight and be passionate about the user, well-designed online and mobile products, and software development methodologies
  • 5+ years of product management experience in a high-tech software company, preferably a B2C e-commerce environment
  • Consistent history leading multiple ongoing complex projects and implementation of web applications, while delivering on schedule
  • Experience utilizing web analytics and testing tools to aid business decisions 
  • Ability to run large, complex projects in a rapidly changing environment
  • Demonstrated experience in embracing product management standard methodologies, standards and policies 
  • Ability to lead international projects
  • Ability to collaborate closely with design and usability to drive product enhancements
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • High level of initiative and desire to create a premier user experience for our customers
  • Experience with complex information architecture and content management
  • Experience with online travel and/or consumer marketplaces preferred
  • BS or BA in related field, MBA preferred

Benefits & Perks:

  • Competitive health and insurance benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Annual target bonus or commission
  • Paid vacation and sick time
  • Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Free snacks and beverages
  • Frequent company update talks with our leadership team
  • Free listing on HomeAway.com
  • Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk
  • Discounted Metro & Rail pass
  • Casual dress

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Expedia Group has three offices in the Austin area with a 16-story building now open in the Domain.

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