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As a Product Manager, you will work at the intersection of the user, business, and data and have a competitive understanding of the travel landscape to bring new successful new features to life.
This team owns a full service travel offering (selling flights, hotels, rental cars and packages) for our marquee B2B partner in Japan. A successful Product Manager for this team must be ambitious, highly competent, and excited to dig in to product data, learn from customers, and build new features on short cycles to grow this partnership.
This Sr Product manager must also be able to work extremely well with partners in Japan and be able to drive a roadmap across multiple product categories.
This role operates across a much broader scope than a traditional PMs.
As such, we would expect someone to join us that:
- Can lead a product team while dealing with ambiguity/little direction;
-They will be the sole person responsible for the day to day of a suite of products
- Is able to use data/analysis to inform decision making and strategy; we’re going to want to run a lot of experiments, and we’re going to need to analyze an entirely new platform, customer base, and several new products
- Has the ability to influence a partner to make product and business decisions that benefit our business and our customers.
What would your day-to-day look like:
- Conceptualize new features across our product areas which compel more users to shop and book travel on our partner integration, and do so profitably
- Manage a product roadmap for a set of features from inception through implementation; collect requirements, establish key performance metrics, craft the user experience, and drive execution
- Understand and explain complex technical issues, discern impact, and communicate them to maximize clarity and drive resolution
- Work with business unit leaders at Hopper and at our partner to help shape and drive business cases for product featuresIdeate and wireframe new features that will be in the hands of millions of users across the globe
- Identify the essential qualities of each feature: what's important, what's not, how can we limit cost and risk?
- Use good judgment to make appropriate trade-offs when scoping and specifying solutions, ensuring that anything we build adds value to the business and continues to delight our users
An ideal candidate has:
- The ability to work in a start-up environment AND a traditional Japanese business environment
- Enjoys untangling complex problems and diving deep into data in a methodical manner
- Makes decisions with quantitative and qualitative data and is comfortable making decisions without absolute certainty
- Exhibits a detail-oriented approach to problem-solving
- Can clearly explain their thinking verbally and through writing to help drive clarity, uncover new questions, and get to a resolution working both independently and with various team members or stakeholders
- Takes ownership and moves quickly while exhibiting good judgment
- Shows technical depth that allows them to communicate with, understand, and earn the respect of world-class engineers and data scientists
- A strong focus on doing what is right for the customer and the company without ego
- Can speak to their track record of being proactive and persuading colleagues by constructing a compelling narrative both in-person and in-writingIs highly adaptive and flexible to a changing environment and absorbs the greater context of organizational goals and appropriately weighs this as an input into their roadmap
- Has experience with consumer marketplaces, as a plus
Perks of working with us:
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary, and the upsides of a pre-IPO equity package
- Quarterly performance bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Flexport All Access Pass OR Work-from-home stipend
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business
- Open communication with management and company leadership
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
- New benefits to come soon as we're opening up full employment PEO!
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More about Hopper
At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally – powering Hopper’s mobile app, website and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility and savings to travelers globally. We have developed several unique fintech solutions that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions – helping people travel better and save more on their trips.
The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and continues to capture market share around the world. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, the Hopper app has been downloaded over 120 million times and has become largely popular among younger travelers – with 70% of its users being Gen Z and millennials.
While everyone knows us as the Gen Z and Millennial travel app, Hopper has evolved to become much more than that. In recent years, we’ve grown into a global travel agency and travel fintech provider that powers some of the world’s largest brands.
Through HTS, our B2B division, the company supercharges its partners’ direct channels by integrating our fintech products on their sites or powering end-to-end travel portals. Today, our partners include leading travel brands like Capital One, Nubank, Air Canada and many more.
Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:
Hopper sells billion worth of travel and travel fintech every year. In 2023, over 1.3 billion trips were planned through the Hopper app and our HTS partnerships.
Our fintech products – including Price Freeze, Flexibility for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance – have exceptionally strong CSAT because the terms are always clear, and customers receive instant, no-questions-asked resolutions.
Almost 30% of our app customers purchase at least one fintech product when making a booking; and consumers are 1.6x more likely to repurchase if they add fintech to their booking vs if they booked just travel.
Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), which represents more than 50% of the business.
Through HTS, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper’s fintech or travel inventory on their direct channels. As its first HTS partnership, the company partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders. Other HTS partners include Air Canada, Uber, CommBank, Nubank, Flair Airlines with many more in the pipeline.
Featured in Apple’s Best of the App Store list of Essential Travel Apps in 2023 and recognized by the likes of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Hopper has been downloaded over 120 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month. Hopper is now the #3 largest online travel agency in North America and 70% of our app customers are Gen-Z and millennials travelers.
Hopper has raised over $750 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world. Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration as the world’s fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace.
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