Full-Time

Lead Product Builder

Posted on 9/22/2025

Mews Systems

Mews Systems

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloud-based hospitality management platform with integrations

No salary listed

United Kingdom

In Person

Category
AI & Machine Learning (2)
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Required Skills
Product Management
Requirements
  • 7 years of experience delivering customer-facing software with measurable business outcomes.
  • Experience as a senior engineer in a product-driven company (startup, founder, or scale-up experience preferred)
  • Track record of leading large-scale initiatives across functions, systems, or product areas.
  • Strong product instincts - you care about the problem as much as the implementation
  • Comfortable defining scope, navigating ambiguity and making trade-offs in real time
  • Take ownership well beyond your code - into customer outcomes, product success and system sustainability
  • Experience operating without dedicated Product Managers or Product Designers, or a strong proven ability to do so
  • Demonstrated ability to define and deliver product strategy without top-down direction.
  • Consistently lead by example: whether by coaching, elevating team standards, or proactively unblocking others
  • Recognized as a leader in AI-native development, with a proven ability to evaluate, adopt and scale emerging tools (e.g., agents, orchestration, autonomous testing) across teams.
  • Expert in and actively working with modern AI development tools, such as: GitHub Copilot for rapid code generation and refactoring, Cursor or other AI-native IDEs to boost development speed and insight, Lovable, or similar tools, to prototype flows and gather user feedback fast, Emerging AI agents and workflow automation tools that help reduce friction, test faster and unlock scale
  • Strong communicator with a history of influencing decision-making at a strategic level.
  • Recognized internally as a go-to problem solver and mentor, trusted by peers across disciplines.
Responsibilities
  • Take end-to-end ownership of product initiatives - from problem definition to prototype to production
  • Build rapidly, ship often and iterate based on real feedback
  • Lead the design and implementation of systems that power: Product-led growth mechanics, Intelligent onboarding and automation workflows, Multi-property operational tooling and business intelligence, AI-powered Smart Tips and co-pilot product features
  • Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to stay aligned on direction without being dependent on them for day-to-day execution
  • Operate as a self-contained unit: making decisions, running experiments and owning delivery
  • Set a high bar for technical and product quality. You won’t just ship features - you’ll build systems that last and evolve
  • Mentor Engineers who wish to become Product Builders and other Product Builders to drive adoption of modern development practices
  • Champion AI-native development across the team - working faster, smarter and with less waste
  • Make pragmatic use of cloud-native platforms, integrations and managed services to solve problems without reinventing the wheel
  • Lead the discovery and delivery of complex, cross-cutting initiatives with broad business and customer impact.
  • Shape product direction in ambiguous areas, working closely with leadership to influence strategic bets and longer-term product vision.
  • Mentor and enable other Product Builders and Engineers across the company – through pairing, reviews, coaching and hands-on leadership.
  • Drive best-in-class use of AI tools, rapidly prototyping solutions and scaling promising ideas into robust product experiences.
  • Establish reusable patterns, frameworks, or services that accelerate the work of other builders and improve overall velocity.
  • Define and share patterns for effective AI-native development, enabling others, even for non-product builders, to build faster and more effectively.
  • Represent builder thinking across orgs – evangelizing a culture of experimentation, autonomy and pragmatic problem-solving.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience as a senior engineer in a product-driven company (startup, founder, or scale-up experience preferred)

Mews provides a cloud-native hospitality management platform for hotels, hostels, and serviced apartments. The platform consolidates operations like automated reservations, digital check-in/check-out, mobile housekeeping, revenue management, and data analytics, all accessible via the cloud. It connects with third-party apps, payment systems, and customer relationship tools to create a seamless, automated workflow from booking to checkout. Unlike traditional property management systems, Mews offers an open, flexible ecosystem that enables easy integrations and real-time data access. The company’s goal is to reduce administrative work, improve guest experiences, and optimize hotel performance and revenue by automating tasks and providing actionable insights.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$817.7M

Headquarters

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Founded

2022

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Raised $300M Series D at $2.5B valuation in 2026 to build autonomous AI agents.
  • EUR 330M run-rate revenues in August 2025 with 55% SaaS gross profit growth.
  • Powers 15,000 customers across 85 countries, named Best PMS 2024-2026.

What critics are saying

  • Oracle and Salesforce bundle hospitality modules, locking in large hotel groups within 12-24 months.
  • Marriott, Hilton, IHG build proprietary tech stacks, blocking mid-market expansion in 12-24 months.
  • AI agent failures cause customer churn and regulatory scrutiny on pricing within 18-36 months.

What makes Mews Systems unique

  • Cloud-native platform unifies PMS, POS, RMS, housekeeping, and payments unlike legacy on-premise systems.
  • Over 1,000 Marketplace integrations enable seamless third-party connections for customized automation.
  • AI-powered Business Intelligence delivers real-time insights, driving 20% occupancy gains for adopters.

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Benefits

Company Equity

Parental Leave

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Phone/Internet Stipend

Wellness Program

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

2%
PR Newswire
Jan 22nd, 2026
Mews Secures $300 million Investment to Cement Position as World's Leading Hospitality Operating System

/PRNewswire/ -- Mews, the operating system for hospitality, today announced it has raised $300 million in a Series D funding round led by EQT Growth, with new...

Skift
Jan 22nd, 2026
Mews raises $300M at $2.5B valuation to build AI agents for autonomous hotel operations

Mews, an Amsterdam-based hotel technology company, has raised $300 million to develop AI agents capable of autonomously managing hotel operations. The round values the company at $2.5 billion, roughly double its $1.2 billion valuation from March 2024. The funding will support development of agentic AI software that coordinates pricing, staffing and guest services across hotel systems without manual intervention. The approach requires hotels to transition from legacy systems that cannot support such automation levels. Mews' vision depends on hotels shifting operational decision-making to algorithms, though the company has yet to demonstrate this capability at scale. The technology aims to create an operating system that fundamentally changes hotel management processes.

Skift
Oct 28th, 2025
Mews Acquires DataChat for AI Boost

Mews has acquired the AI firm DataChat to improve data usability for its hotel clients using conversational intelligence.

Tech Funding News
Sep 30th, 2025
Mews acquires Flexkeeping to automate housekeeping and boost guest satisfaction — TFN

Mews, the Dutch hospitality operating system, has acquired Flexkeeping for automated housekeeping and team collaboration.

The Recursive
Aug 11th, 2025
Mews Secures $75M in Major Funding Round

Czech Republic's startup scene ranks #30 globally, with over 700 startups. In H1 2025, the top 10 largest funding rounds include Mews, a hospitality management cloud solution, which raised $75 million (€64.37 million) in a growth-stage round, reaching unicorn status. Other notable rounds include a FinTech company raising €30 million and a cybersecurity firm securing €13.35 million. Czech startups contribute over 5% to the GDP and employ more than 150,000 people.

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