Principal Product Manager, Privacy & Consent

Overview
Skyscanner is looking for a strategic and experienced Principal Product Manager to lead our Privacy & Consent domain, partnering closely with our PrivTech engineering team to advance industry-leading privacy practices. This role will play a key part in Skyscanner’s commitment to pioneering best-in-class privacy standards in travel, focusing on trust, transparency, and user empowerment in our digital ecosystem.

About The Role

The Principal Product Manager will own a significant and complex area of Skyscanner’s product landscape, driving initiatives that ensure robust compliance, user trust, and transparency in how we handle privacy and consent. This position will involve developing and executing strategies for Privacy & Consent across cross-functional teams, empowering them to deliver measurable outcomes at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership in Privacy and Consent Management: Develop and lead the Privacy & Consent product strategy, including designing systems for tracking, consent management, and data retention that enhance user trust and meet stringent regulatory requirements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, Legal, and Product teams to embed privacy-by-design principles across product features, maintaining alignment with Skyscanner’s broader strategic objectives.
• Data Framework and Compliance: Lead the development of frameworks to support regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR), manage user data rights (DSAR), and facilitate data audits while ensuring robust data architecture and pipeline integration.
• Building User Trust and Transparency: Drive initiatives that enhance transparency in Skyscanner’s data handling practices, from cookie management to data usage disclosures, working with UX/UI teams to ensure clarity for end users.
• Support External Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with legal and commercial teams in external engagements with regulatory bodies and partners, providing product insights that support Skyscanner’s privacy standards and compliance goals.
• Ownership of KPIs and Performance Metrics: Define and measure key performance indicators (KPIs) to track success, such as user trust metrics, compliance benchmarks, and transparency goals. Continuously assess progress and adjust strategies to align with Skyscanner’s mission.
• Leadership and Team Empowerment: Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration within cross-functional teams, mentoring team members and instilling best practices in agile product development.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Product Management Expertise: 5+ years of experience in product management, with proven success in tackling complex challenges in online tracking and privacy.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Strong familiarity with data privacy laws like GDPR, ensuring Skyscanner’s practices meet regulatory standards while fostering user trust.
• Preferred Skills: Experience with consent management platforms, data architecture, and user-facing product development, particularly within high-compliance industries.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Exceptional stakeholder and project management skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and influence teams at all levels, from engineering to executive leadership.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Adept at autonomously solving ambiguous and previously unaddressed business challenges, employing data-driven decisions and an analytical mindset to identify and act on growth opportunities.
• Technical Understanding: Sufficient background to collaborate effectively with engineering teams, facilitating discussions around data integration, architecture, and agile processes.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset: Confident in applying a lean and agile approach, testing and iterating quickly, and scaling successful solutions across the organization.

Why You’ll Love This Role

This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact on how Skyscanner protects user privacy and builds trust with travelers. You’ll be a cultural ambassador for privacy-first values, shaping the future of data management in travel while developing your leadership in a rapidly evolving domain.

Following extensive surveys and workshops around our teams needs and preferences, we’ve returned to our offices in a hybrid working pattern: typically that looks like two days in the office, flexible to an individual’s need. As such, this role would be a great fit for someone who lives within commuting distance of one of our Scotland and Barcelona offices.

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