Associate Product Manager - Travel Category (Europe)

About The Role

We are developing a comprehensive travel offering covering Flights, Hotels, and Experiences for a leading telecom operator in Europe, integrated within their main app as part of a new lifestyle ecosystem. This role involves complete ownership from inception through scaling, rather than incremental feature work.

You will manage the entire travel vertical end-to-end, overseeing supplier integrations, pricing models, user experience, conversion optimization, and loyalty program alignment.

This is a fully remote position targeting candidates residing in Europe.

Key Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of the Flights and Hotels category, establishing it as a core revenue stream.
• Manage the supplier ecosystem by integrating global distribution systems (GDS), aggregators, and direct supplier relationships.
• Lead commercial strategies including margin management, pricing, inventory, and monetization tactics.
• Shape the product experience across the user journey from discovery to booking and post-booking phases, enhancing conversion, trust, and repeat engagement.
• Implement deep loyalty program integration with telecom rewards, enabling earning, redemption, promotions, and gamification features.
• Plan and execute multi-market go-to-market strategies with focus on localization such as currency, language, and regulatory compliance across Europe.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, partnerships, and telecom stakeholders to deliver seamless product development and launches.

Challenges and Opportunities

• Building a travel product within a telecom platform, where user intent and conversion paths differ from traditional travel channels.
• Balancing the needs of aggregation and product differentiation across diverse European markets each with unique user behaviors and regulatory environments.
• Coordinating complex ecosystem dependencies involving partners, pricing strategies, and loyalty integration while maintaining a superior user experience.

Candidate Profile

• Extensive expertise in the travel domain, particularly with flights and hotels on OTA, meta, or supplier platforms.
• In-depth knowledge of GDS platforms such as Amadeus and Sabre along with aggregators and the economic factors influencing supply.
• Proven product leadership with experience in owning and scaling an entire category or business unit.
• Strong commercial acumen including ownership of revenue, margin, and unit economics.
• Experience in complex integrations including APIs, third-party dependencies, and multifaceted workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects from strategy formulation through product requirements documentation to launch and iterative improvement.

Additional Valuable Qualifications

• Experience launching or managing products across multiple European countries.
• Familiarity with loyalty and rewards ecosystems.
• Background in localized products handling multiple markets, currencies, and compliance variations.
• Prior involvement with super app platforms, marketplaces, or embedded ecosystems.

Success Metrics

• Establishment of travel as a key engagement and revenue-driving feature within the telecom application.
• High conversion rates with strong repeat user engagement, beyond just increasing traffic volume.
• Effective loyalty program integration that boosts incremental transactions.
• Creation of a scalable product foundation that supports expansion across diverse European markets.

Why This Role Matters

• Opportunity for complete category ownership, not limited to partial funnel activities.
• Exposure to large-scale European markets.
• Chance to pioneer travel solutions within a non-traditional distribution channel (telecom), a space where many competitors falter.