Lead Product Manager

Summary

Join Vacasa as a Lead Product Manager driving Channel Management! You will own the strategy, roadmap, and product delivery for distributing Vacasa inventory across various channels, including Airbnb and VRBO. This role involves managing technical integrations with OTAs and channel managers, collaborating with engineering teams to improve API integrations, and working closely with Revenue Management and Data Science teams to optimize revenue. The position is 100% remote and requires 5+ years of product management experience in dynamic environments. You will need strong project management, communication, and technical skills. Vacasa offers competitive compensation and benefits, including health insurance, 401k matching, flexible vacation time, paid parental leave, and more.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product management in dynamic, complex environments working with platform APIs
• Strong project management skills to align with internal Vacasa stakeholders, external vendors at OTAs and channels as well as engineering teams to execute quickly and efficiently
• Comfortable with details, data and learning new technologies
• Leveling up others around you: beyond the core PM functions, you uplift those around you as you work. Do your projects get the best out of engineering and business users?
• Strong product sense - you have deep empathy for customers, well defined taste, and the ability to partner with UX and front-end developers to translate customer problems and insights into meaningful and frictionless experiences
• Sense of ownership - you understand the scale of the opportunity ahead, move with urgency, never hesitate to tackle challenges head on, and persevere in the face of adversity
• Metrics and impact driven – you have a keen sense of what’s important to the business, use data to uncover problems and make strategic tradeoff decisions, and measure the impact you and your team are driving
• Strong communication skills - you are an active listener, have a talent for succinctly and persuasively articulating your ideas, and a calm and collected executive presence that builds trust with stakeholders
• Relationship management - you are comfortable and familiar working with key stakeholders and peers at 3rd party companies and you are able to articulate the needs of Vacasa to help influence roadmap decisions
• Technical expertise and aptitude - you have experience with Agile development methodologies, an understanding of software development best practices, and the technical chops to advise and evaluate engineering decisions

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and product leadership to define the long-term vision and set the strategy for the Vacasa’s channel management and revenue management product areas, and inspire stakeholders to execute
• Gather business requirements, understand the role and experience of channel and RM end users and owners, while executing in partnership with business line leadership
• Based on your own insights and vision, recommend new channel and revenue management capabilities to drive distribution and revenue
• Work with an amazing multi-disciplinary team across engineering, channels, revenue management, data science, finance and legal to deliver high quality solutions
• Exercise sound decision making and sensible prioritization by determining what we should do, why, and when
• Act as a product champion to drive effective change management across the organization

Preferred Qualifications

Ideally experience working directly in travel or inventory distribution

Benefits

• Health/dental/vision insurance - employee & family coverage options
• Employer Sponsored & Voluntary Supplemental Benefits
• 401K retirement savings plan with immediate 100% company match on the first 6% you contribute
• Health & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Flexible vacation time
• Paid sick days and holidays
• Paid parental leave after one year of tenure
• Employee Assistance Program
• Career advancement opportunities
• Employee discounts
• All the equipment you’ll need to be successful
• Great colleagues and culture