lastminute.com - Senior Technical Product Manager

Description:

The Company lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan.

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do whatever makes them pink.

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution.

We run our business in 17 languages and 40 countries, with more than 1,500 employees spread across our offices worldwide, developing our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here.

We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel. lastminute.com N. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Job Description:

- Global Hotel is lastminute.com group's hotel sourcing and distribution division, managing

direct contracts with 23,000+ hotel properties worldwide.

- We operate sophisticated B2C distribution through the group's consumer brands and are expanding our B2B capabilities through strategic partnerships and technology platforms.

- We are seeking an exceptional Senior Technical Product Manager to lead the product strategy and execution for Global Hotel's technology, with primary focus on channel manager connectivity, extranet management, and API product development.

- This is a critical role that will own the end-to-end product lifecycle for our hotel distribution platform, managing both external partner-facing products and internal operational tools that serve our B2C brands and support strategic B2B initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership:

- Foster a culture of innovation, customer-centricity, and operational excellence.

- Build product management best practices and processes for the growing B2B division.

- Collaborate effectively across distributed teams in Europe and Asia.

Product Strategy & Vision:

- Define and communicate the 12-18 month product roadmap for Global Hotel's distribution platform and channel connectivity.

- Make critical build vs buy vs partner decisions for platform capabilities.

Product Discovery & Requirements:

- Lead discovery processes with channel manager partners and internal Extranet.

- Define success metrics and KPIs for each product initiative.

- Conduct competitive analysis of bedbank platforms and B2B distribution technologies.

Product Execution & Delivery:

- Work closely with engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications.

- Analyse booking conversion data, channel performance metrics, and operational efficiency indicators.

Skills And Experience:

- 8+ years in Product Management, with at least 4 years in B2B technology products, preferably in travel tech, fintech, or marketplace platforms.

- 3+ years managing technical integrations such as API products, connectivity platforms, channel management systems, or payment systems.

- Proven track record of leading complex B2B product initiatives from strategy through execution, with measurable business impact.

- Direct experience negotiating and managing partnerships with technology vendors or channel partners.

- Strong technical acumen including understanding of API architectures, data flows, system integrations, and database design.