In this unique role, you will work closely with a team of world class engineers, data scientists, designers and other product managers to drive innovation across devices (desktop, mobile, tablet) and across verticals (hotels, restaurants and attractions). You will help travelers FIND what what they are looking for by driving optimizations in the search and navigation across the site experience.

You will help us answer some of our most challenging questions: What’s the best way to segment high and low intent travelers with the navigation? How do you balance the best search results to show in typeahead vs. the search result page? How do you personalize search results given the high degree of diversity in what travelers search for: a specific destination, a hotel, a mention in a forum post, a clip of media, a Trip itinerary, or even a profile itself?

 What you will do:

• Lead new product development initiatives, including competitive and user research, business case development, scoping, and all phases of the product development lifecycle.

• Lead cross-functional teams, serving as product and part project manager, to define product specifications, establish milestones, and direct the development, implementation, and evolution of features.

• Work closely with key business partners to understand their business problems and opportunities to tailor modeling efforts to meet their needs, balancing multiple priorities and effectively communicating the benefits and limits of machine learning, predictive models, and personalization

• Analyze and interpret data; synthesize information from a variety of sources and translate into effective and actionable recommendations

• Build business cases and analytical support/insight for new initiatives; this requires identifying and understanding key issues, quantitatively analyzing these issues, and communicating key insights and results

• Measure product performance and identification of key levers of improvement - including design and analysis of relevant reports

• Continuously propose new A/B tests to delight travelers while contributing to the top line.

• Research, troubleshoot, diagnose and recommend solutions to increasingly complex business or technical problems.

• Ensure quality assurance testing is performed prior to go-live launch of new features

 What we seek:

• Ability build strong relationships across the organization and a knack for explaining complicated ideas in simple terms. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Rock solid product instincts along with the ability to build a business case for your ideas

• An enthusiasm for the personalization space—a love for data, modeling, and all things machine learning

• Demonstrated experience in analyzing data to drive business tactics & strategies, plus deep experience with SQL

• Drive to get things done -- you love to Ship that delight users and exhibit tenacity in solving complex problems, finding resources and making them available when needed

• High attention to detail and the ability to effectively lead multiple projects at a time. Successfully able to meet deadlines.

• A desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven environment with varied responsibilities.

• Experience at a fast paced web-based consumer business

• 5+ years of Product Management experience with experience in Machine Learning, Data Science, Recommendation Systems or Search 

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