Technical Product Manager, Supply Platform at Hotel Engine (Greater Denver Area, CO)
Hotel Engine is the world’s largest Lodging Performance Network, established to create a richer, more rewarding business travel experience by connecting a global network of businesses and lodging partners. Our innovative travel-tech company is on an incredible growth trajectory and will continue to build on our strong foundations by bringing our customer obsession, data-driven problem-solving, and bias for action into every decision we make.
In December of 2021, we closed our series B funding round with a $1.3 billion valuation, and that’s just the beginning. We expect 2022 to be our best year yet.
Working hard behind the scenes building and supporting our platform are exceptional people–from our large engineering and product teams to our fast-growing sales, supplier, and member support orgs, to our data, marketing, and operations teams.
We value our individuality, and we also understand that together, we thrive. Most importantly, we know we’re not for everyone! We’re focused on finding the right people who are energized by our culture, with diverse experiences and backgrounds that will help us unlock our full potential. Complacency doesn’t live here. We’ve built a team of world-class people who really want to work with other world-class people. Click here to view our DNA, and if you like what you see, please, read on!
We're expanding our product development team by adding a Technical Product Manager who will be responsible for designing and building the foundational capabilities that will reshape the way we help hotels connect with travelers. If you’re up for a fast-paced, scrappy start-up environment, please consider applying!
Here's what you'll do:
- As the Supply Platform Technical Product Manager, you will help design and build the foundational capabilities that will reshape the way we help hotels connect with travelers.
- Partner closely with engineering leadership to influence architectural and design decisions to optimize platform performance
- Maintain a prioritized product roadmap of key features. Rank the backlog based on end-user needs, data analytics, and stakeholder requests
- Own the success of your product features, both by implementing new functionality to improve the experience as well as monitoring success in production
- Serve as the expert of all product metrics relevant to your area of ownership: this includes tracking daily trends, modeling the potential impact of new features, and performing deep-dive analysis that drive insights
- Communicate frequently with design, technology, leadership, and other internal stakeholders
- Serve as the expert of your product to all internal and external stakeholders, both in communicating updates and soliciting feedback and new ideas to drive better product
- Advocate for customers’ needs and studiously gather feedback and ideas for feature improvements
- Create functional and technical requirements for the development team
- Gather business intelligence data to help make data-driven roadmap decisions
- Support sales team and deliver product demos that communicate product value proposition, and features and benefits
- Participate in and lead various aspects of the product development process including daily stand-ups, requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, demoing product, and whatever needs to be done to ensure successful deployment
Here's what we're looking for:
- 3+ years of product management experience, ideally in Agile practices such as Kanban and Scrum
- Solid understanding of how web applications work and current technologies. You do not need a coding background, but you should understand how the pieces fit together
- Serve as the expert of your product to all internal and external stakeholders, both in communicating updates and soliciting feedback and new ideas to drive better product
- Proven track record of driving the product development process from beginning to end which includes user story definition, grooming, commitment, and delivery
- Experience using data to drive decisions, including both identifying the right data to analyze as well as gaining actionable insights from the analysis
- Ability to identify and extract product data from multiple different locations (product analytics tools, BI tools, directly from a database, etc.)
- Ability to both think strategically about the direction of a product, while at the same time not being afraid to roll your sleeves up and get in the weeds of executing on that strategy
- Experience with owning and managing product features once delivered, including iterating on MVP and scaling up successful launches
- Exceptional project management skills and able to manage multiple projects in parallel
- Strong interpersonal skills that bridge business needs and development process
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, to drive the entire team to success
- Thrive in situations where one must efficiently make sense of chaos
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance in a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to move quickly and make decisions with limited information, but also recognize when the wrong decision was made and pivot quickly
- Strong facilitation skills, tenacious and strong-willed in your approach to drive alignment, focused on business results
Cash Compensation:
- The total cash compensation for this role is $110,000-$140,0000/year with an annual bonus target of up to 15%. Overall Total Earning potential including the bonus is $126,000-$161,000 plus stock options. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise & may vary from the amount above.
Remote Opportunities:
- This role is eligible for remote work. Hotel Engine is authorized to do business in AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT & WA. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Hotel Engine is registered, you will not be eligible for employment. Please speak with your recruiter to learn more.
Hotel Engine Total Rewards Philosophy | We recognize that there is more to work than day-to-day responsibilities. Hotel Engine has been recognized on Built-in Colorado’s Best Places to Work list 3 years in a row (2020-2022) for our positive culture and robust growth opportunities.
As a company, we’re also dedicated to giving back to our greater community, and have comprehensive corporate social responsibility programs supporting community, social justice and environmental causes. In addition to a collaborative, high-performing team environment, we’re pleased to offer benefits including:
- Competitive base salaries
- Annual performance bonuses
- Stock options for all associates + performance-based stock options
- Insurance benefits including medical coverage (with a plan available at no cost to employees) + 100% paid dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a match program
- Unlimited PTO + 2 paid days each year to volunteer with your favorite non-profit
- Paid parental leave and family medical leave
- Hotel discounts through our exclusive platform
- The ability to make a real impact in an incredibly fast-growing organization; you’ll never be just another cog in the wheel.
