Product Manager - Host Experience (all genders)

Munich, Germany

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We’re Holidu – one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide on a mission to make the booking and hosting of homes free of doubt and full of joy. We help thousands of hosts manage more than 50k vacation rentals effortlessly, and guide over 100 million website users each year to find their perfect holiday home. Our team is made up of 650+ colleagues from 60+ nations, united by a passion for technology, a love for travel, and the drive to keep getting better. Together, we’re shaping the future of the holiday rental industry — and we’re just getting started! You want achieve amazing milestones with us? Then pack your bag, hop on board and get ready for take off!

Our current itinerary

Holidu is our software and service solution with the mission to make the booking and hosting of holiday homes free of doubt and full of joy. You will be part of the Host Experience department, a highly international team consisting of 40 (and growing) developers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Technical Support Engineers and QA. Together with your colleagues, you will focus on creating best-in-class web and native mobile apps to help hosts and internal stakeholders effectively manage vacation rentals.

Your future team

Identify market opportunities and define your product’s vision and strategy.
Understand customer needs and gather product requirements, to develop new products and enhance existing products.
Lead product development lifecycles from ideation, requirements gathering, and design to development, post-release support, and impact monitoring.
Work closely with other product managers, tech teams, designers, business stakeholders and analysts ensuring a consistent experience for the end-user.
Understand customer needs and gather product requirements, to develop new products and enhance existing products.
Conduct user research to identify opportunities and pain points, compile requirements, develop proof of concepts to address them, and turn ideas into reality by successfully executing on them.
Systematically leverage data to uncover opportunities, drive your decision making, and prioritize projects accordingly to enable the achievement of both short and long-term objectives.
Create, prioritize and maintain the team’s backlog and be responsible for the team’s roadmap.
Gain exposure to a wide variety of technical challenges and find solutions for efficiently solving them.

Your role in this journey

Identify market opportunities and define your product’s vision and strategy.
Understand customer needs and gather product requirements, to develop new products and enhance existing products.
Lead product development lifecycles from ideation, requirements gathering, and design to development, post-release support, and impact monitoring.
Work closely with other product managers, tech teams, designers, business stakeholders and analysts ensuring a consistent experience for the end-user.
Understand customer needs and gather product requirements, to develop new products and enhance existing products.
Conduct user research to identify opportunities and pain points, compile requirements, develop proof of concepts to address them, and turn ideas into reality by successfully executing on them.
Systematically leverage data to uncover opportunities, drive your decision making, and prioritize projects accordingly to enable the achievement of both short and long-term objectives.
Create, prioritize and maintain the team’s backlog and be responsible for the team’s roadmap.
Gain exposure to a wide variety of technical challenges and find solutions for efficiently solving them.

Your backpack is filled with

Min. 3+ years of product management experience building customer-facing products, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment.
Excellent business understanding and affinity for design and user psychology.
An entrepreneurial mindset: you are self-driven, organized, proactive with a hands-on approach, and thrive in a fast paced, agile environment.
Natural problem-solver, with a strong history of leading product discovery, solving meaningful customer and business problems, and delivering scalable solutions.
Proven ability to break down complex issues, reduce them to essential components, and communicate them effectively without losing sight of the user's needs.
An ability to successfully execute on ideas, bringing concepts to life in a timely fashion.
Great communication skills and a desire to interact with business and technical stakeholders.
An analytical mindset with the skills to evaluate data and draw insights to make informed product decisions. Expertise in defining success criteria for your product and measure the impact of the features you deliver against your KPIs.
Fluency in English, both written and spoken; additional languages are a plus.

Our adventure includes

Impact: Make a difference for hundreds of thousands of monthly users.
Growth: Take responsibility from day one and develop through regular feedback, workshops, and knowledge exchanges.
Personal Development: Use your learning budget and 2 extra study days for conferences, books, courses, and more.
Community: Engage with international, diverse, yet like-minded colleagues through regular events and 2 office days per week with your team.
Flexibility: Benefit from our hybrid work policy and the chance to work from other local offices for up to 8 weeks a year.
Fitness: Get a premium gym membership at a discounted rate.
Travel: Enjoy 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria and the possibility to take up to 10 unpaid vacation days with special discounts on our Holidu Homes properties.

Need a sneak peek?
Check out the adventure that awaits you on Instagram @lifeatholidu and dive straight into the world of Tech at Holidu for more insight!

Want to travel with us?

Apply online on our careers page! Your first travel contact will be Katharina from HR.

We are committed to diversity in all aspects of our business. We encourage applications from all genders, all corners of the world and all individual backgrounds. You are welcome to submit your application without a photo and without stating your gender, date of birth, marital status, nationality or disability status (if applicable).
If you require any special assistance when arranging interviews, office visits or the recruitment process in general, please contact the relevant HR person responsible for this job and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.