Senior Product Manager

 

About Viator

Viator, a Tripadvisor company, is the leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 300,000+ travel experiences to explore—everything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and all the niche, interesting stuff in between)—making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier. With industry- leading flexibility and last-minute availability, it's never too late to make any day extraordinary. Viator. One app, 300,000+ travel experiences you’ll remember.

Viator's mission is to connect people with unforgettable experiences around the world, creating lasting memories and supporting businesses in the process. Through Viator, travelers have explored ancient cities, rediscovered their hometowns, and conquered fears through exhilarating adventures like ziplining, hot air ballooning, and glacier trekking. They have also reconnected with loved ones through shared experiences like wine tastings and walking tours.  As the largest marketplace of its kind, Viator offers travelers the ability to book over 300,000 tours, experiences, and activities, making it a one-stop shop for discovering the world's wonders.

Our team is global, with team members located in cities around the world, including Oxford, London, Lisbon, Krakow, Reykjavik, Boston, and Sydney. Millions of travelers use our platform to discover a wide range of experiences, from walking tours and wineries to cooking classes and catamarans, in almost every country worldwide.

Viator is looking for a dynamic and experienced Senior Product Manager to join our team!

In this role, you will be a key player in our mission to position Viator at the heart of the Experiences ecosystem. You will help us solve complex industry problems by building unique capabilities and leveraging the power of an open ecosystem through Operator and Traveler facing UIs and robust APIs. You will be part of a fun, energetic team where you can make an immediate impact and grow as a product management professional.

At the heart of our platform, you will lead the development of capabilities within the Operator Experience domain, initially focused on Pricing and Availability. You’ll be responsible for building an ecosystem that delivers direct value to Operators, Travelers, and Partners, while also enabling other teams to unlock exponential value. We're looking for a flexible Senior Product Manager who can adapt to evolving priorities and contribute across the broader Operator experience space as company strategy informs where focus should be.

Role Overview

As Senior Product Manager, you’ll work alongside other PMs and cross-functional stakeholders to define and execute on the roadmap for Pricing and Availability, ensuring experiences are discoverable and bookable from months to hours in advance. You’ll break down complex problems into clear deliverables, collaborate deeply with engineering and design, and help shape products that are technically robust and user-friendly, this includes building the underlying systems that pull, display, and optimize availability and pricing data between Viator, Operators, and their reservation systems. Pricing is a critical scoring layer to Availability, influencing how products are ranked, selected, and sold across channels.

While Availability and Pricing will be your primary focus, this role sits within the broader Operator Experience domain, which also includes areas such as Product Quality, Logistics, Review Management, Compliance and User Account Management. The ideal candidate will bring strong product thinking, technical depth and the flexibility to adapt as strategic priorities shift within the Operator space.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the roadmap for Pricing and Availability in alignment with team and company OKRs, on a quarterly basis.
• Collaborate with product leadership to ensure alignment with broader company strategy.
• Write clear product specs and work closely with engineers and designers to deliver quality outcomes.
• Partner with stakeholders across operations, marketing, and customer support to drive adoption and deliver impact.
• Craft compelling business cases and narratives that align product investments with broader company goals.
• Define and monitor key success metrics; proactively analyze product performance and adjust strategy as needed.
• Construct new features or enhance existing products to drive the business forward, aligning with established revenue and growth objectives, while ensuring scalability and adaptability.
• Regularly lead customer discovery and data analysis initiatives to uncover needs/opportunities and influence investment decisions.
• Partner with engineering, design, marketing, and operations teams to execute initiatives that elegantly solve customer and operator problems while streamlining operational processes.
• Expand knowledge and remit into the Operator Experience domain being prepared to lead new initiatives in new domains that align to company priorities.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, competitive forces, and emerging technologies

Critical Skills

• User experience: Strong appreciation of Operator and Traveler experience to deliver products that are easy to adopt, use and provide material improvements to everyday usage
• Technical Proficiency: Strong understanding of API and AI technologies
• Product Management Expertise: Proven experience in defining short- long term product strategy, developing roadmaps and managing product lifecycles
• Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with diverse teams and external partners at all levels
• Analytical Skills: Excellent analytical skills, identify trends and make data-driven decisions
• Problem-Solving: Strong ability to identify and resolve complex technical and business challenges.
• Travel Industry Knowledge: Understanding of the travel industry, and reservation systems is a plus

Must-haves

• Expertise (The “What”)
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years experience in product management, with proven track record of delivering products to B2B, in addition experience of contributing to B2C or B2B2C products
• Expert to shaping UI layers that leverage downstream technologies to deliver end to end
• Ability to engage in highly technical discussions and challenge engineering and other teams when necessary; ability to drive consensus and commitment even when there is disagreement
• Experience decomposing and sequencing the implementation of complex platform solutions into distinct milestones to demonstrate rapid value creation
• Experience measuring the impact of platform work, identifying suboptimal decisions, and adapting when necessary 
• Collaborative Work Style (The “How”)
• Insatiable curiosity to understand the needs of internal and external customers by leveraging data.
• Ability to collaborate with diverse teams, manage stakeholder requirements, identify and prioritize opportunities, develop solutions, and experiment while mitigating risk.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.
• Success communicating  the vision, trade-offs, and timelines to stakeholders at all levels.
• Sets a high bar for other PMs, strives for excellence, and continuously learns from feedback and mistakes.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in marketplace Pricing and Inventory strategies
• Experience in two-sided marketplaces
• A master's degree in a technology or business-related field

Perks of Working at Viator

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses
• “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Viator takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.

Our Values

• We aspire to lead. Tap into your talent, ambition, and knowledge to bring us – and you – to new heights.
• We’re relentlessly curious. We push beyond the usual, the known, the “that’s just how it’s done.”
• We’re better together. We learn from, accept, respect, support, and value one another– and are creating something remarkable in the process.
• We serve our customers, always. We listen, question, respond, and strive for wow moments.
• We strive for better, not perfect. We won’t get it right the first time – or every time. We’ll provide a safe environment in which to make mistakes, iterate, improve, and grow.
• Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique identities, abilities, and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.