Job Description

Senior Product Manager – Digital Advertising

Travelport is a place of opportunity. It’s our incredible team that makes our company great – our people drive our winning culture.

What’s Travelport?

Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travellers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We’re leading the change; we are the change.

We are on a mission to power the future of travel; come join us.

This role can be based at our Langley, Berkshire (UK) office or in our Denver hub (City Centre).

What does a great Product Manager – Digital Advertising do?

We’re looking for a strategic and commercially minded Senior Product Manager to lead the development and optimization of digital advertising products. This person is responsible for identifying our customer needs in the travel industry market, understanding those needs by creating clear and defined features and lean business cases. Supporting an Agile Product Delivery Customer Centric approach in defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of value and services to the customer.

Guiding the work through Lean product management and developing and executing on the product vision and product roadmap, the Digital Advertising Senior Product Manager identifies customer needs to articulate value propositions that will drive the optimum return on investment for their product.

The Senior Product Manager – Digital Advertising, will be versed in ad technology, specifically for both publisher site and PoS (Point of Sale) content, and understand the end-to-end capabilities including the ability to demonstrate ROAS (Return on Ad Spend). Travelport product managers provide the vision and direction to the delivery teams around value pursuit, feature prioritization and feature-level acceptance criteria. The Product Manager will apply analytics and quantitative, data-driven decision-making models to inform business decisions coupled with the ability to think creatively about constraints. Responsible for entire product lifecycle including sunsetting of products.

This role requires extensive collaboration with other product managers and organizational pillars such as product marketing, commercial, security, data privacy and billing to ensure integration of content and prioritization across many initiatives.

Responsibilities include:

• Developing deep functional product knowledge and understanding the technical composition of systems that support it.
• Developing and communicating the product vision and roadmap for internal and external consumption.
• Researching and collaborating to understand and document customer needs and validate solutions.
• Translating high-level market requirements into business and product requirements documents, authoring acceptance criteria, and providing product acceptance to ensure market needs are met.
• Serving as a subject matter expert in Digital Advertising and leader to Travelport technical teams ensuring a complete functional definition of the desired features.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, sales, analytics, billing, marketing) to deliver scalable advertising products that meet both user and advertiser needs.
• Partnering with publisher and media stakeholders to optimize inventory, placements and yield across digital channels.

Who we are looking for in this role:

• Knowledge and implementation of a product management and product owner techniques, tools & principles.
• A deep understanding of publisher ecosystems, audience segmentation, and programmatic advertising technologies.
• Ability to clearly express the connections between larger business goals and small backlog items for alignment with Product strategy.
• Communicate effectively on the purpose and vision of the product roadmap to the wider delivery team and their role in delivering or contributing to the business outcomes.
• Effective management, prioritization and ownership & accountability for the product backlog; stakeholder management of the backlog and ability to say "no" where items don't make sense for the bigger picture.

Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you’re likely to succeed if you:

• Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work.
• Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things.
• Take responsibility and own your work.
• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what’s been done before.

For US hires we are offering base salary $130-140k plus

These are just a few of our employee’s favorite benefits/perks

• Competitive Salary and Bonus plan.
• Strong focus on the future with 401K and Employee Savings Plans.
• Competitive Healthcare Benefits; including medical, dental, vision and disability.
• Exceptional PTO package.
• Dynamic Diversity & Inclusion as well as Community Commitment Programs.