Principal Product Manager, Advertising

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here).

Now, we’re on the lookout for a Principal Product Manager, Advertising, to help us bring that vision to even more travellers. 

About the role 

(Hybrid)

We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our Advertising Team, leading and developing our advertising traveller experience products. We are looking for someone who has delivered results—launching new customer-facing features, delivering performance improvements, and challenging themselves and others to think about the whole end-to-end traveller experience.

Our Product Managers are builders who love to create things and change the world through technology. They are skilled at the Why, the How and the What of making and iterating products to find market fit. They support each other and help each other grow. They are multi-facetted entrepreneurs who know how to generate insights, set direction, and get things done in tech & business.   

Naturally data-driven, they nevertheless cut through complexity to identify high impact opportunities and simple solutions. They act decisively on these insights and collaborate with colleagues in ways which inspire and motivate. Above all, they are in touch with the end user, working constantly to understand their pain-points and exceed their expectations.

What you’ll be doing

What we value most is autonomy, nimbleness, and delivery of an integrated experience for our travellers. So as a team, we are organised cross-functionally so that we can keep focus on delivering our highest priority business goals. Our squads are empowered to make decisions and figure out for themselves how to tackle our biggest and most complex challenges. 
 
Our Product Managers will typically work with one or more squads to deliver a goal, then pick up other goals as the work progresses and priorities shift. Their squad ships daily, tests constantly, and tries to deliver real traveller value every week. This means we look for PMs who thrive on change and are constantly taking on new challenges.

Whatever the challenge, our PMs:

• Find the ‘why’ behind the traveller problem.   
• Solve for the whole picture – seeing their work through the traveller’s eyes, creating solutions for the entire experience, and thinking beyond its parts.   
• Work incredibly hard to keep things incredibly simple.   
• Use Lean approaches to break down big ideas into valuable pieces to deliver at fast pace.   
• Fail fast and fail often – until they don’t. 

About you

• Senior product advertising experience at a fast-paced software or product led company   
• Proven track record of building native advertising, working closely with the core experience teams
• Experience with user research and user experience design. 
• Understanding of the technical architecture and infrastructure of ad tech
• Experience making hard, data-driven decisions (incl. A/B testing, User Testing, Analytics, Market Research, Competitor Analysis, Defining Metrics and KPIs)   
• Proven track record of managing multiple stakeholders, both internally and externally  
• Substantial experience developing impactful products 

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working with AI within the advertising industry   

What it's like here

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better - and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all.

Sound like your kind of adventure? Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these