About Skyscanner
Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻.
Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible
Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here)
About the role
(Hybrid)
Big questions, real impact: As a Principal Strategy Manager, you’ll sit at the sharp end of Skyscanner’s biggest decisions- the kind that shape where we play, how we win, and what we build next.
A true strategic partner: You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with senior leaders across the business, helping them cut through complexity, prioritise what matters most, and move from debate to decision.
From thinking to doing: This isn’t strategy that lives in a slide deck. You’ll stay close to delivery, helping teams turn bold ideas into real outcomes.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading strategic development: You’ll own priority strategy topics, from growth opportunities and vertical strategy to AI leadership and tech productivity.
- Partnering with senior leaders: You’ll collaborate across Product, Engineering, Commercial, Marketing, Finance and Data to align on the what and the how.
- Supporting top-level decisions: You’ll equip the C-suite and Board with clear narratives, sharp analysis and confident recommendations.
- Building robust business cases: You’ll create decision frameworks covering market sizing, competitive analysis, scenarios and ROI/value modelling.
- Turning strategy into action: You’ll translate strategy into initiatives, metrics, milestones and ownership, and stay involved through delivery.
- Running high-trust collaboration: You’ll lead small cross-functional squads, facilitate workshops and keep diverse stakeholders aligned.
- Simplifying the complex: You’ll turn messy inputs into crisp messages and data into stories people can actually act on.
About you
- Strategically sharp: You bring a strong toolkit - hypothesis-driven problem solving, market and competitive analysis, segmentation and financial modelling.
- Action-oriented: You know how to connect big-picture strategy to practical plans, trade-offs and delivery — and you’ve got examples to prove it.
- Comfortable with senior stakeholders: You can influence without authority and build trusted relationships at all levels.
- A confident communicator: You craft compelling, executive-ready stories (written and slides) and present them with clarity and confidence.
- A natural leader: You plan, sequence, manage risks and facilitate workshops that turn many opinions into decisions.
- Thrive in ambiguity: You’re calm when the path isn’t clear and enjoy bringing structure to the unknown.
- Seasoned in high-rigour strategy environments: you have developed your craft in roles requiring pace, analytical depth, and strong judgement.
- The ideal candidate will have experience in consulting (e.g. Senior Associate or Engagement Manager level ), supported by several years in industry with hands-on experience applying strategy. We are open to candidates from outside travel, including marketplaces, e-commerce, startups, and related sectors.
- Travel-tech curiosity is a plus, but travel experience is not a requirement
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.
Skyscanner London, England Office
Level 5, Ilona Rose House, Manette Street, London, United Kingdom, 1D 4AL
