Travel. It's one of life's simple pleasures. But, ooof, planning it can feel like hard work. For the last 20 years we've been on a mission to empower every traveller with innovative tools, insights and experiences that help people get to where they're going, so they can spend more time out exploring the world, and less time anxiously bouncing around 25 browser tabs and endless spreadsheets. Our traveller-first approach drives everything we do and it's never been more important than it is today.
When we launched as a flight comparison site back in 2003, we changed the game by helping travellers feel smart, like they were in on a secret, that promise hasn't changed. And today, while we're a world leader in travel, with millions of people using our products every single day we know there's so much more we can be doing.
Being part of Skyscanner means joining a team hell bent on building the world's most innovative, and helpful travel experiences possible. We're hugely ambitious and believe we have the chance to genuinely challenge and disrupt the industry.
We’re now excited to look for a Product Director, AdTech. This is a newly created role where you’ll lead a dedicated team of senior product managers, driving innovation and growth in an ever-evolving industry. At Skyscanner, we pride ourselves on being at the intersection of global scale and continuous innovation. Whilst we’re a well-established brand, the job is never done, and we’re still growing and shaping the future of travel and ad technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of our proprietary, native Advertising platform end-to-end. Using advertising industry knowledge to ensure the platform and frontend products are fit for purpose for both performance and mid/upper funnel brand advertising.
- Using industry experience and market insights to develop and implement the product strategy for Advertising at Skyscanner from Data analytics, ML delivery and recommendations, platform self-service and B2C product builds.
- Providing leadership and direction to a cross-functional team of product, engineering, design, and data science, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
- Leading all aspects of the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
- Working closely with key team members, including commercial, product, and executive leadership, to gather input, communicate product updates and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Establishing key performance indicators, regularly assessing the performance against these and changing course to improve financial success, if needed.
- Developing, maintaining and evangelizing a comprehensive product roadmap that reflects short-term and long-term business goals.
- Mentoring and leading a high-performing product management team.
- Encouraging a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the product organisation.
- Be a cultural ambassador and influential leader in the organisation
About You
- Deep Product management experience, with a specialism in product development/product management of advertising technology, focused on proprietary native platform builds.
- Solid understanding of sophisticated advertising technology and its development
- Proven track record of working with external advertising partners at a senior level
- Exceptional stakeholder and project management skills, with a proven track record of leading multiple stakeholder groups and delivering products at scale, influencing cross-functionally at a senior level, in an effective way.
- An ability to autonomously solve previously unidentified and ambiguous business problems through strategic think and data analysis.
- Proficiency in using data to drive decision-making (including conducting experiments and A/B tests, User Testing, Analytics, Market Research, Competitor Analysis, Defining Metrics).
- Excellent written, oral communication and social skills.
- Strong personal work ethic, including personal initiative and ownership.
- Sufficient technical background to optimally work with engineering teams.
- Confident in applying a lean and agile approach, ensuring we test, learn, and embrace failure while scaling success.
- Experience in identifying and addressing blockers to growth, and handling these effectively in a collaborative way.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to gain buy-in and approval up to board level.
The role can be based from either our Edinburgh or Barcelona Office.
You'll join a brilliantly diverse group from all corners of the world. After all, travel is about finding new perspectives and experiencing new people and cultures - and Skyscanner is strongest when our teams are both inclusive and diverse.
Skyscanner is an equal opportunities employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination based on protected characteristics such as age, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, political views, sexual orientation, sex, gender (whether identity, reassignment, or expression), pregnancy or maternity, marital status, disability or any other category protected by law.
We are committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let our recruitment team know.
