About the role
Hybrid
This is not just another product leadership role. This is your chance to shape the engine room of Skyscanner.
As our Director, Product Management – Travel Platform, you’ll define the strategy for the tribe that powers the very core of our meta-search capabilities: search results, geographic systems, and pricing insights. In other words, the foundational tech that helps millions of travellers compare options in seconds — not hours.
You’ll lead a talented team of Product Managers across six squads, partnering closely with Engineering and business stakeholders to build reusable, scalable capabilities that unlock speed, innovation and impact across the entire company.
This role calls for sharp strategic thinking, deep technical fluency, calm prioritisation under pressure, and the ability to bring people with you — from engineers to executives.
You can be based in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London or Barcelona, where we adopt a hybrid working policy of working in the office twice a week.
What you’ll be doing
- Defining the Travel Platform strategy: You’ll set and evolve a clear vision for the tribe, aligning platform investments with Skyscanner’s broader product and business goals.
- Balancing today and tomorrow: You’ll make smart trade-offs between immediate commercial priorities and long-term platform scalability and health.
- Leading and empowering PMs: You’ll coach and develop a team of Product Managers across six squads, enabling confident decision-making and strong product craft.
- Partnering across the business: You’ll collaborate closely with Engineering and other tribes to identify their most pressing needs and translate them into scalable platform capabilities.
- Driving measurable impact: You’ll ensure platform investments deliver tangible business and traveller value — improving search quality, pricing intelligence and geographic precision.
- Championing quality and performance: You’ll work hand-in-hand with Engineering to monitor, measure and continuously improve reliability, scalability and performance.
About you
- Experienced platform product leader: You’ve owned strategy for shared technologies or platform-layer products in fast-paced, product-led environments.
- Visionary and pragmatic: You can define a compelling roadmap while making confident, data-driven trade-offs across business value, feasibility and resources.
- Technically fluent: You’re comfortable discussing APIs, system architecture, data models and performance metrics with engineering leaders.
- Stakeholder-savvy: You’ve successfully aligned diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders around a clear direction.
- People-first leader: You’re passionate about building and developing high-performing product teams.
- Impact-focused: You have a proven track record of delivering platform products that drive measurable business outcomes.
What it's like here
We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭.
Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨.
Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.
We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.
Top Skills
Skyscanner London, England Office
Level 5, Ilona Rose House, Manette Street, London, United Kingdom, 1D 4AL
