What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager | Lonely Planet position at Red Ventures?
Job Requirements
About the role
Lonely Planet is a trusted, iconic travel brand with over 50 years of experience in helping travelers explore the world. Known for our extensive guidebooks, we are now evolving our digital offerings to create innovative, user-friendly travel digital experiences that bring the expertise of our guides into the modern age. Our goal is to revolutionize how people discover, plan, and experience their travel adventures.
We are looking for a Product Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping and guiding the development of our next-generation travel app, creating intuitive, engaging, and highly functional digital experience. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of travel tech for a beloved brand.
What You’ll Do
What We're Looking For:
Benefits
Cash Compensation Range: $90,000 - 130,000
New York City Compensation Range: $90,000 - 150,000
Founded in 2000, Red Ventures (RV) is home to a diverse portfolio of industry-leading brands and businesses, strategic partnerships and proprietary technology, including Bankrate, Lonely Planet, The Points Guy, BestColleges and more. Together, RV helps millions of people worldwide make life’s most important decisions, accelerates digital adaptation, and innovates the online consumer experience by improving every step of the consumer journey from first discovery of information, throughout the decision-making process, to transactions. Headquartered south of Charlotte, NC, Red Ventures employs thousands of people across the US and Puerto Rico, with international offices in the UK and Brazil. For more information, visit https://redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on social platforms.
At Red Ventures, we believe diverse, inclusive teams are better. To help you better understand our core values and beliefs, we encourage you to watch this brief YouTube video: Our Belief Statements. This will give you insight into the principles that guide our work and our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment.
We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, 401(k) plan and a paid parental leave program.
Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications.
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.
About the role
Lonely Planet is a trusted, iconic travel brand with over 50 years of experience in helping travelers explore the world. Known for our extensive guidebooks, we are now evolving our digital offerings to create innovative, user-friendly travel digital experiences that bring the expertise of our guides into the modern age. Our goal is to revolutionize how people discover, plan, and experience their travel adventures.
We are looking for a Product Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping and guiding the development of our next-generation travel app, creating intuitive, engaging, and highly functional digital experience. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of travel tech for a beloved brand.
What You’ll Do
- Product Discovery: Leverage user research and data analysis to define user problems and journeys, identifying product opportunities for enhancing our value proposition.
- Creative Problem Solving: Articulate user problems and product opportunities effectively across various audiences, driving ideation to discover optimal solutions.
- Craft Product Requirements: Develop feature roadmaps and user stories to guide the design and development of new features aligning with business and user requirements.
- Lead Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, product designers, and analysts to successfully deliver new products.
- KPI Accountability: Monitor metrics and conduct analysis to evaluate the impact of new features and team’s progress towards achieving its objectives.
- Feature Prioritization: Prioritize features by estimating business value and collaborating with technical teams to understand effort required for implementation.
- Innovation & Trends: Stay updated on emerging technologies and competitive landscapes within the travel and app industries, introducing fresh ideas to drive innovation.
What We're Looking For:
- 3 years of product management experience, with a strong emphasis on mobile apps and consumer-facing products.
- Experience launching or improving travel or community apps.
- Proficiency in utilizing data analysis and visualization tools (such as Databricks, SQL, Looker, Amplitude) to extract and synthesize user data for actionable insights.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, focusing on the product vision while starting small to learn and iterate.
- Ability to translate qualitative and quantitative insights into clear, concise recommendations to shape product decisions.
- Proactive learner with a keen curiosity for exploring new tools and techniques, with meticulous attention to detail.
- Skill in fostering effective collaboration within a cross-functional team of diverse experience levels and disciplines.
- Team player with a humble attitude, open to feedback, and possessing a great sense of humor.
- Continuous commitment to personal growth through formal management coaching and mentorship.
- Passion for travel and a profound understanding of the modern traveler's journey.
- Have worked at a high-paced tech start-up.
- Experience taking consumer products from 0 - 1.
- Proven experience designing for the travel, hospitality, or lifestyle industries is highly desirable.
Benefits
Cash Compensation Range: $90,000 - 130,000
New York City Compensation Range: $90,000 - 150,000
- Note actual salary is based on geographic location, qualifications, and experience.
- Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time Off
- Holiday Pay
- 401(k) with match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
Founded in 2000, Red Ventures (RV) is home to a diverse portfolio of industry-leading brands and businesses, strategic partnerships and proprietary technology, including Bankrate, Lonely Planet, The Points Guy, BestColleges and more. Together, RV helps millions of people worldwide make life’s most important decisions, accelerates digital adaptation, and innovates the online consumer experience by improving every step of the consumer journey from first discovery of information, throughout the decision-making process, to transactions. Headquartered south of Charlotte, NC, Red Ventures employs thousands of people across the US and Puerto Rico, with international offices in the UK and Brazil. For more information, visit https://redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on social platforms.
At Red Ventures, we believe diverse, inclusive teams are better. To help you better understand our core values and beliefs, we encourage you to watch this brief YouTube video: Our Belief Statements. This will give you insight into the principles that guide our work and our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment.
We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, 401(k) plan and a paid parental leave program.
Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications.
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.
Salary : $90,000 - $150,000
