Description

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world's leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We're also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is at our core and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our SEO Team. You'll play a critical role in shaping user journeys, balancing SEO performance with world-class UX, and driving measurable impact across multiple brands and markets. Reporting to the Director of SEO Product, you'll partner with engineers, designers, data, commercial, and marketing to prioritize opportunities, define requirements, and deliver improvements that enhance user experience at scale.

This role requires commuting to the Berlin office 3 times per week.

In this role, you will:

Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the product experience and user journey for SEO/SEM users, defining and communicating priorities that support KAYAK's product vision and closing known gaps in functionality and content.
• Manage a product roadmap committed to achieving goals, driving impact, and improving UX, making informed decisions independently when backed by data-driven insights.
• Act as the voice of the user while balancing needs with business goals, monitoring the competitive landscape, and staying informed about both travel and e-commerce spaces.

Experimentation & CRO

• Drive continuous improvement through learning loops: A/B and multivariate experiments, results, iteration, and insights synthesis.
• Lead CRO efforts by identifying user pain points across landing pages and funnels, running experiments, and implementing improvements that increase conversion.
• Utilise AI tools as part of your day-to-day work to increase productivity and efficiency.

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

• Be a part of a highly skilled SEO team, working with Product Managers, SEO Analysts, and Engineering to deliver products used by millions of users in 40+ markets every day.
• Translate validated problems into clear, actionable solutions and requirements in collaboration with SEO, Design, and Engineering.
• Foster strong, trust-based relationships with stakeholders and collaborators, ensuring shared ownership of outcomes and advocating for SEO/SEM user needs across the full user funnel.

Execution & Delivery

• Identify and prioritize user and business problems through qualitative and quantitative data, crafting requirements that facilitate meaningful improvements.
• Lead projects end-to-end: establish requirements, write product and feature specifications, build and maintain project plans, prioritize scope, and proactively mitigate risks.
• Project manage initiatives beyond core product work when needed, showing flexibility to keep team priorities moving forward.

Please apply if:

• You have a technical understanding without being a developer.
• You are structured and analytical, with strong quantitative skills and the ability to make data-informed decisions.
• You have experience with product analytics tools/user-testing (e.g. FullStory, Hotjar, component tracking) and can extract insights to guide improvements.
• You have a proactive, results-driven approach and take strong ownership of problems.
• You excel at turning ambiguous or complex projects into clear, actionable plans that teams can execute against.
• You are comfortable working in agile environments (scrum/kanban) and can help bring structure to complex projects.
• You can write clear briefs and well-thought-out product requirements, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You know how to align product opportunities with business goals and communicate them clearly.
• You can provide thoughtful design/engineering specifications feedback, considering details, edge cases, and technical feasibility.
• You thrive in cross-functional collaboration, working with stakeholders across teams, levels, and time zones.
• You bring a consumer-focused mindset, ideally with e-commerce or B2C experience.
• Experience working with SEO or marketing teams is a plus.

Benefits and Perks:

• 6 weeks of paid vacations
• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
  
  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
  • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
  • No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
  
  • Development Dollars
  • Leadership development
  • Access to thousand of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Free lunch 2 days per week
• Pension plan contributions
• Public transportation subsidies
• Bike leasing program
• Monthly social events, massages, Thursday happy hours, sports teams
• An awesome office in Friedrichshain, Berlin

Inclusion

At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That's why we're focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.

Need any adjustments for the interview, application or on the job? No problem - just give us a heads-up. We've got you.

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