Hybrid Senior Product Manager

at KAYAK

• Job title: Senior Product Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Senior Product Manager for KAYAK focusing on SEO user journeys and enhancing user experience. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive impactful improvements and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Own the product experience and user journey for SEO/SEM users, defining and communicating priorities that support KAYAK’s product vision and closing known gaps in functionality and content.
• Manage a product roadmap committed to achieving goals, driving impact, and improving UX, making informed decisions independently when backed by data-driven insights.
• Act as the voice of the user while balancing needs with business goals, monitoring the competitive landscape, and staying informed about both travel and e-commerce spaces.
• Drive continuous improvement through learning loops: A/B and multivariate experiments, results, iteration, and insights synthesis.
• Lead CRO efforts by identifying user pain points across landing pages and funnels, running experiments, and implementing improvements that increase conversion.
• Utilise AI tools as part of your day-to-day work to increase productivity and efficiency.
• Be a part of a highly skilled SEO team, working with Product Managers, SEO Analysts, and Engineering to deliver products used by millions of users in 40+ markets every day.
• Translate validated problems into clear, actionable solutions and requirements in collaboration with SEO, Design, and Engineering.
• Foster strong, trust-based relationships with stakeholders and collaborators, ensuring shared ownership of outcomes and advocating for SEO/SEM user needs across the full user funnel.
• Identify and prioritize user and business problems through qualitative and quantitative data, crafting requirements that facilitate meaningful improvements.
• Lead projects end-to-end: establish requirements, write product and feature specifications, build and maintain project plans, prioritize scope, and proactively mitigate risks.
• Project manage initiatives beyond core product work when needed, showing flexibility to keep team priorities moving forward.

Requirements

• You have a technical understanding without being a developer.
• You are structured and analytical, with strong quantitative skills and the ability to make data-informed decisions.
• You have experience with product analytics tools/user-testing (e.g. FullStory, Hotjar, component tracking) and can extract insights to guide improvements.
• You have a proactive, results-driven approach and take strong ownership of problems.
• You excel at turning ambiguous or complex projects into clear, actionable plans that teams can execute against.
• You are comfortable working in agile environments (scrum/kanban) and can help bring structure to complex projects.
• You can write clear briefs and well-thought-out product requirements, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You know how to align product opportunities with business goals and communicate them clearly.
• You can provide thoughtful design/engineering specifications feedback, considering details, edge cases, and technical feasibility.
• You thrive in cross-functional collaboration, working with stakeholders across teams, levels, and time zones.
• You bring a consumer-focused mindset, ideally with e-commerce or B2C experience.
• Experience working with SEO or marketing teams is a plus.

Benefits

• 6 weeks of paid vacations
• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
• Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousand of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Free lunch 2 days per week
• Pension plan contributions
• Public transportation subsidies
• Bike leasing program
• Monthly social events, massages, Thursday happy hours, sports teams
• An awesome office in Friedrichshain, Berlin