Principal Product Manager, Pricing

Hotel Engine is searching for a dynamic Principal Product Manager for Pricing and Optimization to join our forward-thinking Product team. As the Principal Product Manager, you will shape our pricing strategy, ensuring it maximizes value for our customers and partners. If you're a strategic thinker, data-driven decision-maker, and passionate about delivering top-notch experiences, we invite you to be part of our journey.

Here's what you'll do:

• Lead the development and execution of Hotel Engine’s pricing strategy to optimize revenue and profitability.
• Identify opportunities for business growth, substantiating your case with data and industry insights.
• Lead a dedicated team focused on building and iterating on our pricing service to enhance customer outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Finance, and Marketing, to drive pricing and supply optimization initiatives.
• Manage a prioritized product roadmap, balancing business, customer, and stakeholder needs.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify pricing opportunities and threats.
• Develop and maintain pricing models and tools to support pricing decisions.
• Champion a customer-centric approach to pricing, ensuring that our offerings provide maximum value.
• Participate in and lead various aspects of the product development process, including daily stand-ups, requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, demoing product, and whatever needs to be done to ensure successful deployment.
• Own the success and performance of your product area by driving visibility and monitoring success through KPIs and usage data, all to inform future product iterations.
• Act as the expert for all product metrics in your area of ownership, including tracking daily trends, modeling the impact of new features, and performing deep-dive analysis.
• Effectively communicate with engineering, leadership, external partners, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure alignment and meaningful collaboration.
• Mentor and guide a team of product managers, fostering their growth and development.

Here's what we're looking for:

• Proven track record of at least 8 years in product management.
• Solid understanding of how modern applications work, their general architecture, and current technologies. You do not need a coding background, but you should be able to understand how the pieces fit together and have high-value conversations with those who create these systems.
• Proven track record of driving the product development process from beginning to end, which includes opportunity discovery, user story definition, refinement, commitment, and delivery.
• Demonstrated data-driven decision-making skills.
• Strategic thinking with hands-on execution capability.
• Experience owning and managing product features, including MVP iterations and scaling.
• Excellent partner management and communication skills.
• Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
• Quick learner, able to make informed decisions with limited information.
• Strong facilitation skills with a focus on driving alignment and business results.

Cash Compensation:

• The total cash compensation for this role is $170,000-$190,000/year. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise & may vary from the amount above.