VP of Product
Rocket Travel is looking for an experienced VP of Product Management to join our growing team! The Rocket HQ’s is based in Chicago’s West Loop. We are a hybrid team and have a flexible work schedule. Though this role will require a presence in the office, partial remote is possible.
In this role, you’ll play a leadership role in our growing and mighty product management organization. You’ll drive the creation of product strategy, vision, and roadmaps, leading a team to create the best outcomes for our travelers and partners. You’ll work closely with our technology, design, operations, and commercial teams - as well as our sister brands across Booking Holdings - to drive successful product initiatives.
This is a leadership role, with multiple direct reports, reporting directly to our Chief Product & Operations Officer.
Rocket Travel is a place where you:
- Work with a group of intrinsically motivated people with a track record for building successful new businesses from scratch.
- Embody curiosity, community, and accountability. We live and build products by these values every day.
- Own decisions and take action that can be implemented in a matter of days (or hours).
- Get inspired and encouraged to vacation faster, with an annual vacation stipend.
- Receive a competitive compensation package, including bonus, equity, 401k with match, flexible vacation time, maternity/paternity benefits, health, and dental insurance.
- Total Compensation is based on experience & negotiable - Salary: $165k - $230k + Bonus: 30% - 40% + Equity
- Can have a flexible work schedule. We have an amazing office in the Chicago West Loop, which this position is based in. We have a hybrid team and a flexible work environment.
- Share your passion for travel with equally adventurous teammates.
- Work within the largest online travel company in the world. Rocket Travel creates B2C and B2B2C travel products and is part of Booking Holdings (BKNG). We have many worldwide partners and a diversified business. Despite the world’s current situation, Booking Holdings has been rated the healthiest company in travel, and Rocket itself is already seeing travel demand surpass pre-pandemic levels
As a VP of Product at Rocket Travel, you will:
- Be fully accountable for product, customer, and business outcomes, ranging from enterprise-level platforms to new initiatives and new partner and product launches
- Work closely with design to create customer-centric, lovable experiences, as well as setting strategy and improving processes to deliver the best products possible
- Work closely with engineering to make architectural decisions and drive tech strategy
- Interact directly with our largest partners to build ideal experiences for customers
- Own outcomes, tracking and acting on KPIs and OKRs across multiple products
- Directly manage product owners, lead cross-product discussions and initiatives, and identify opportunities to improve the way we ideate, design, build, and release products
- Work with senior leadership collaboratively to communicate and finalize decisions
- Discover, learn, iterate, fail, and succeed in the fastest-growing portion of the largest travel tech company in the world
About you:
- You are an experienced, inclusive product leader, able to build and inspire the team and stakeholders through ambiguity and changing priorities
- You are customer and people focused, optimizing the product from user insights, customer engagement, and both qualitative and quantitative data
- You are data-driven, able to ask the right questions and resourcefully find the answer
- You are thoughtful, intentional, and decisive, recognizing “how much is good enough” before making a decision
- You are technically empathetic, understanding the inherent tradeoffs in building technology products, and experienced in working with engineering and data leaders
- You are scrappy, with demonstrated bias to action to get things done
- You have extensive experience in product leadership, managing through scenarios of evolving ambiguity, resources, growth, and constraints
- You are well-versed in the art and science of product management, even better if you have measurable experience in travel, software, and/or growth stage organizations
About Rocket Travel
We make travel more rewarding than anyone else
Rocket Travel awards customers for booking travel through our products, allowing people to earn or use loyalty benefits from their favorite loyalty programs.
Our journey
We began in 2013 with the same goal of making travel even more rewarding. This started with our bespoke Rocketmiles website, earning travelers their favorite airline loyalty miles for hotel bookings, and every year since, we’ve advanced our goal.
We now partner with over 60 loyalty programs that travelers can choose from, we build unique partner-branded travel sites, we offer the ability to earn and redeem loyalty rewards, we sit within Booking Holdings (BKNG)—the most experienced Group of travel companies in the world—and we continually grow the number of ways that people can book travel through us, from stays to cars and more.
Travel constantly evolves, opening additional opportunities to create rewarding experiences, and we intend to be at the forefront of building and innovating on those for travelers worldwide.
A diverse and global team
Our teammates work across the globe, in person and remotely. We have offices in Chicago, NYC, Bangkok, Bogota, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Cebu. No matter where people work, our main team-building goal is to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We do that with a Diversity and Inclusion Committee, setting DEI hiring goals, investing in employee retention, and conducting regular team training that fosters collaboration and morale.
All of these efforts help ensure that we’re promoting a supportive workplace, where people are motivated to grow professionally and build rewarding travel experiences together.
Note on general employment requirements
Candidates should be authorized to accept employment in the US from any employer, should be willing to start within three weeks of accepting an offer, and should be able to work the same daily working hours as our Chicago office.
A final word
If the idea of working within an environment that promotes accountability, curiosity, and community to build reward travel products sounds motivating to you, we would love to hear from you—even if you’re unable to meet 100% of the job requirements. We never expect people to have all of the answers, as long as they’re willing and able to learn and grow with us.