Technical Product Manager – Hotel Supply & Connectivity

[Careers](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/careers/jobs "Careers") ## Technical Product Manager – Hotel Supply & Connectivity Share this job: Technical Product Manager – Hotel Supply & Connectivity Technical Product Manager – Hotel Supply & Connectivity corporate.lastminute.com https://corporate.lastminute.com/careers/job/?id=744000150982849&jobName=Technical%20Product%20Manager%20-%20Hotel%20Supply%20&Connectivity ##### 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.V. 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 looking for a Technical Product Manager to own supply-side and connectivity products within Global Hotel. This is a deliberately technical product role: your product surface is APIs, data flows, integrations, channel connectivity, extranet and internal supply tooling. It suits a product manager relatively early in their product career who is strong technically and wants to go deep on hotel supply and distribution, you are used to lead initiatives end to end, and embed AI deeply in your workflows, from automation, data analysis, to build working prototypes**. **Important: this is a technical platform and supply-facing product role. The products you own are APIs, connectivity, extranet and internal operational tooling that serve our B2C brands and support strategic B2B initiatives. This is not a consumer-facing UX/UI product role.** **Key Responsibilities**: **- Own the backlog and delivery for one or more supply and connectivity product areas (channel connectivity, extranet, internal supply tools).** **- Work closely with engineering teams to translate business requirements into clear specifications.** **- Manage day-to-day prioritisation and trade-offs to keep delivery moving.** **- Run continuous discovery with internal supply, operations stakeholders, and connectivity partners** **– Drive your team prioritization and roadmap, with sharpening reasoning and foundation, that facilitates alignment across your area, and company** **- Define success metrics and KPIs for each product initiative.** **- Analyze connectivity performance, content quality, booking conversion and operational efficiency indicators to inform prioritisation.** **- Collaborate effectively across distributed teams in Europe and Asia.** Job title: Technical Product Manager – Hotel Supply & Connectivity Brand: lastminute.com Department: Revenue & Operations Location: Chiasso, Switzerland Contract: Full-time Main Language: English ##### Qualifications - **Skills and Experience** **- 3+ years in Product Management, or an equivalent technical or analyst role transitioning into product, ideally with exposure to B2B, platform or integration products.** **- Genuine technical acumen: comfortable with APIs, data flows and system integrations, and able to hold credible technical discussions with engineers.** **- Analytical and data-driven, comfortable with SQL or able to learn it quickly.** **- Curiosity about hotel supply and distribution and a clear desire to specialise on the technical, supply-facing side of product.** **Desirable** **- Exposure to hotel distribution technology (channel managers, GDS, OTA integrations, property management systems).** **- Experience with supply-side, platform or internal-tooling products rather than consumer UX.** **- Proficiency with extracting insights from data** **– You are deeply curious, and keep yourself updated about the latest trends, and news in the hotel business** **– You are AI proficient, and know how to embed it in your daily work, from creating ways to automate, be more efficient, to data analysis, and capable of building working prototypes end to end.** **What we offer** **By joining our company, you will have the chance to:** **- Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment** **- Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective** **- Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day** **- Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning** **- Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings** **- Work partially or fully remote according to local laws** **- Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform** **- Benefit from employee discounts on travel** **- Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering** **- Receive a voucher after some years in the company** **- Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices** **- Welfare platform (Corporate Benefits) where you will find dedicated discounts with more than 1500 partners** ##### Additional Information **Perks of working with us**: How we work together: - An inclusive, friendly, and international environment (you’ll be working with colleagues from +10 countries and over 48 nationalities) - Shorter working week (36h as full time), with a half working day on Fridays - Flexible start and end of the working day, with core hours from 10:00 to 4:00 pm - Possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations How we learn together: - Fri-Yays: half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning and training and/or focus time. - Professional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms such as O’reilly, Udemy, Coursera (depending on the department), and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content Other perks: - 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes - Occasional social events to foster connections among colleagues - Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares - We support our employees through life’s significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities, marriages, bereavements, relocations, etc.) in line with local laws. Wish you were here? We do, too! **Selection process steps***: - HR interview (15-30 minutes) - Manager + Team Interview (45 minutes) - Offline Business Case - Offer extended (*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview) **Our commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging** 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. **Eligibility criteria:** By submitting your information and application, you confirm that you are legally authorised to work in the country of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status. [Back to Job Search](javascript:history.back())