Lead Product Manager

Why Vacasa

We started with just one home and an idea: to bring homeowners and renters together with smart technology and caring local teams. Today, we’re the largest full-service vacation rental company in North America thanks to the people who give us their best every day. You’ll fit right in here if you’re curious, entrepreneurial, and thrive in a rapid-growth environment.

What we’re looking for

Vacasa is looking for a Lead Product Manager driving Channel Management. You will own the strategy, roadmap, and product delivery to support distributing Vacasa inventory on all channels including Airbnb, VRBO, Vacasa.com and many others. As part of this role you will also own the relationship management for the technical integrations with OTAs and any channel managers we distribute through. This role will work with engineering teams to improve API integrations across channels and channel managers. 

Along with the ownership of the Channel Management roadmap this role will work closely with the Revenue Management team at Vacasa to ensure that we enable key functionality across channels to increase conversion and revenue through levers such as rate plans, promotions and other critical RM functionality. This role will work with the Data Science & Machine Learning organization to ensure that internal Vacasa Revenue Management tooling is able to take advantage of newly unlocked channel capabilities to realize improvements in occupancy, ADR and overall revenue.

This position in 100% remote. Ability to work from home and resides in one of the followings states: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, or WY

What you'll do

• Partner with business and product leadership to define the long-term vision and set the strategy for the Vacasa’s channel management and revenue management product areas, and inspire stakeholders to execute.
• Gather business requirements, understand the role and experience of channel and RM end users and owners, while executing in partnership with business line leadership.
• Based on your own insights and vision, recommend new channel and revenue management capabilities to drive distribution and revenue.
• Work with an amazing multi-disciplinary team across engineering, channels, revenue management, data science, finance and legal to deliver high quality solutions.
• Exercise sound decision making and sensible prioritization by determining what we should do, why, and when. 
• Act as a product champion to drive effective change management across the organization

Skills you'll need

• 5+ years of experience in product management in dynamic, complex environments working with platform APIs 
• Ideally experience working directly in travel or inventory distribution.
• Strong project management skills to align with internal Vacasa stakeholders, external vendors at OTAs and channels as well as engineering teams to execute quickly and efficiently. 
• Comfortable with details, data and learning new technologies.
• Leveling up others around you: beyond the core PM functions, you uplift those around you as you work. Do your projects get the best out of engineering and business users? 
• Strong product sense - you have deep empathy for customers, well defined taste, and the ability to partner with UX and front-end developers to translate customer problems and insights into meaningful and frictionless experiences.  
• Sense of ownership - you understand the scale of the opportunity ahead, move with urgency, never hesitate to tackle challenges head on, and persevere in the face of adversity 
• Metrics and impact driven – you have a keen sense of what’s important to the business, use data to uncover problems and make strategic tradeoff decisions, and measure the impact you and your team are driving. 
• Strong communication skills - you are an active listener, have a talent for succinctly and persuasively articulating your ideas, and a calm and collected executive presence that builds trust with stakeholders.
• Relationship management - you are comfortable and familiar working with key stakeholders and peers at 3rd party companies and you are able to articulate the needs of Vacasa to help influence roadmap decisions.
• Technical expertise and aptitude - you have experience with Agile development methodologies, an understanding of software development best practices, and the technical chops to advise and evaluate engineering decisions.

Compensation:

• $125000 - $165000 / year. Actual pay will vary based on a candidate's skill, experience, education and/or location.
• More benefits and company perks information below

What you’ll get

• Health/dental/vision insurance - employee & family coverage options
• Employer Sponsored & Voluntary Supplemental Benefits
• 401K retirement savings plan with immediate 100% company match on the first 6% you contribute
• Health & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Flexible vacation time
• Paid sick days and holidays
• Paid parental leave after one year of tenure
• Employee Assistance Program
• Career advancement opportunities
• Employee discounts
• All the equipment you’ll need to be successful
• Great colleagues and culture
• Please visit our careers page to review our full benefits offerings

Vacasa is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate against applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or other classes protected by applicable law. Veterans are encouraged. 

Vacasa is committed to maintaining a safe and productive work environment. Possession, use, or being under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs in the workplace is prohibited.

An offer of employment for this role will be contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.

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