Head of Product

  • Full-time
  • Department: Product

Company Description

Jetcost is a metasearch website that enables users to search for and compare flights, hotels and rental cars from a range of suppliers. 

Jetcost is part of lastminute.com, the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers search and book their travel and leisure experiences through our websites and mobile apps (available in 17 languages and 40 countries). More than 1,500 people enjoy working with us to make this happen. 

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

The group's headquarters is in Chiasso, Switzerland, with offices in major European cities such as London, Madrid, Berlin and Paris.

Job Description

Jetcost is looking for a Head of Product, for its META Product team,  based in Chiasso, and in charge of taking full ownership of the product, the prioritization of new features, and enhancements to existing features.

The person will empower and collaborate with the product team - currently of 2 product owners -  to unlock the full potential of the product platforms (web and APP) and content solutions (core, media) that we are offering as Business Unit.

Key Responsibilities

  • Establish a shared vision across the business unit by building consensus on priorities, leading to product execution
  • Collaborate with Marketing&Media, Business  Strategy, Commercial, and  Tech teams to gather feedback and requirements, to lead cross-department projects which are impacting our advertisers’ and users’ experience
  • Thrive to achieve optimal implementation of changes made to the product through a strong user-centered, data-driven, discovery-oriented discipline that constantly strives to solve the most meaningful problems. 
  • A/B test definition, implementation, results reading and sharing is core part of this

Qualifications

Essential

  • 7+years experience working with web based company
  • Knowledge and experience in conversion optimisation, digital marketing, UX design and/or consumer psychology
  • Experience with web analytics software such as Google analytics
  • Familiarity with A/B testing or other multivariate testing
  • Previous involvement with high traffic, preferably E-commerce or Media sites/APPs

Additional Information

Abilities/qualities 

  • A go-getter who isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty and dives into a project to achieve success by problem-solving
  • Eager to learn and aware that valuable information can come from both positive and negative results through experimentation
  • Passionate about product development and constantly looking for ways to improve it
  • Open-minded team player with excellent communication skills
  • Self-motivated and results-driven with a take charge attitude to manage the full development cycle of a product
  • Data driven. Base your decisions on facts rather than opinions
  • Friendly, knowledgeable, and motivational to others. Open to diversity in all shapes and sizes

What we offer

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

  • Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
  • Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
  • Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
  • Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning 
  • Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
  • Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
  • Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
  • Benefit from employee discounts on travel
  • Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
  • Receive a voucher after some years in the company
  • Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
  • Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
  • Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave according to local laws
  • Welfare platform (Corporate Benefits) where you will find dedicated discounts with more than 1500 partners 
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