Sr VP - Product Management - Travel Portal

Our client, a leading travel portal from India, is looking for a Sr. VP Product Management to drive the growth for our client's online travel platform.

We are looking for digital savvy product development leaders who are passionate about innovating and delivering truly differentiated user experiences. They will be responsible for aggressively expanding our clients product portfolios by delivering new offerings that will be integrated into existing core product platforms.

The candidate should possesses a combination of product management functional expertise along with travel industry knowledge. The role requires a flexible and demonstrated leader capable of working closely with customers, senior executives, R&D, sales, and marketing.

- Drive a market-leading travel portal product strategy, directing the management of the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.

- Develop and own the product roadmap and ensure that it meets market needs and business objectives. Clearly communicate what is in the roadmap and why.

- Lead, coach, support and inspire an existing team and grow the team effectively as needed to support new initiatives.

- Collaborate effectively with software engineering to articulate market opportunities, customer requirements, and prioritization of investment.

- Manage the online travel product portfolio, including P&L of existing products and identification of new product opportunities.

- Collaborate with marketing and sales to ensure go-to-market initiatives drive existing customer retention and enable new customer acquisition.

- Work with industry selling teams to review pricing for the product portfolio to ensure reasoning is sound and is in sync with the overall pricing strategy of the combined portfolio.

- Define, coordinate, and manage customer support strategy and execution

- Ensure guides and best practice tools for clients and partners are in place during commercialization and support ongoing usage going forward

- Maintain fiscal discipline by effectively managing a product development budget

Our client is looking for senior thought leaders with a proven track record of success building and commercializing products in fast-paced environments with demanding timelines. This is a matrixed, cross functional role so leadership, organizational savvy and interpersonal skills are critical, as we interface with multiple disciplines to coordinate the build, launch and support of new products and enhancements to existing ones.

- Successful candidate will take full ownership for the user experience and ensure new product capabilities are consistent with our product strategy, increase usage, and ultimately build brand loyalty.