Senior Product Manager, Search & Discovery Platform

We believe that we are better together, and at Tripadvisor we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique identities, abilities, and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

At Tripadvisor, we understand that travel brings out the best in us, while lifting deserving businesses and strengthening the communities we meet along the way. We know that as the world’s largest travel site, we’re here to inspire and empower people to explore our world with confidence — and share their trip experiences with others. And every day, we see our ideas come to life in work that enables travelers to discover all the good the world has to offer. As part of the Tripadvisor team, you’ll have the opportunity to do the same.

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Product Manager to join our Guidance Platform team and build and enhance Tripadvisor’s leadership role in delivering travel guidance to millions of travelers across the globe. In particular, you will be responsible for enhancing discovery across Tripadvisor’s website and apps through search, classification and ontology. This role will provide an exciting opportunity to work with an amazing team of data scientists, engineers and UX researchers to enhance how users find, discover and browse Tripadvisor’s vast catalog of content and POIs as they plan and book trips. You will work closely with a team of product and business stakeholders to understand business priorities, and support those with scalable and purpose-built platform solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Help to shape vision and strategy for search, tagging, ontology and Knowledge Graphs that facilitate discovery and browsing across Tripadvisor’s app and websites.. 

• Be a thought leader and evangelist for how search, tagging and related technologies can solve user and business problems.

• Partner closely with Data science/ML, Analytics and Engineering to identify opportunities to improve search success rates and discovery, define solutions, and build a tactical roadmap that delivers on stated goals.

• Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams align on the product vision, and ensure our platform strategy aligns with and contributes to broader company goals.

• Develop written requirements and define success metrics and associated use-cases for new projects, shepherding projects from ideation to test results analysis and iteration. 

• Identify, execute and communicate opportunities in the existing experience/platform with rigorous A/B testing to support the business plan. 

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred. 

• 5+ years product management experience. Experience with search technology and/or classification systems is greatly preferred. 

• Experience in direct user testing, A/B and multivariate testing, and data analysis. 

• Analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions. 

• Interest in contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product. 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with various audiences at different seniority levels. 

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at [email protected].

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