Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager - Performance Marketing

Location: Berlin (Hybrid Role, in office twice per week)

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their flawless flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has a chance to create their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

In this role, you will:

• Be part of a highly skilled and dedicated team of product managers, engineers, data scientists, and performance marketing experts within our Performance Marketing team. This team works on products used by millions of users across 40+ markets every day.

• Work closely with other marketing and engineering teams to drive product development and marketing investments.

• Work cross-department & cross-project to capture requirements, build project plans and roadmaps as well as tool implementation and adoption.

• Make impactful decisions independently, as long as these decisions are well-informed and backed by data-driven insights.

• Lead projects in all phases from establishing requirements to implementing the solution together with performance marketing, marketing tech/data science and development teams

• Prioritize requirements and define scope to meet project needs in a timely manner given available resources

• Partner with collaborators and engineering teams to identify areas in need of improvement to increase efficiency and decrease support requests & improve self-service efficiency

Please apply if:

• You have a technical understanding without being a developer

• Your work is characterized by a structured and analytical approach, with a keen attention to details and quality.

• Have a strong ability to lead and drive projects forward and consistently deliver results

• Poses a win-as-one approach and are able to collaborate with multiple collaborators across all levels of the business (and time zones) to achieve common goals

• Understand how to align product opportunities with business goals and support that with thoughtful decisions and clear communication

• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and are confident in your ability to write clear and well-thought-out product requirements

• Experience with online marketing such as Google Ads, Facebook or app marketing is a plus

Benefits

• 6 weeks paid vacation

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year

• Focus on mental health and well-being:

• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth

• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace

• Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)

• No meeting Fridays

• Paid parental leave

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday

• Paid volunteer time

• Focus on your career growth:

• Development Dollars

• Leadership development

• Access to thousand of on-demand e-learnings

• Travel Discounts

• Employee Resource Groups

• Free lunch 2 days per week

• Pension plan contributions

• Public transportation subsidies

• Bike leasing program

• Monthly social events, massages, Thursday happy hours, sports teams

• An outstanding office in Friedrichshain, Berlin

Diversity and Inclusion

At OpenTable/KAYAK, we aspire to be a workplace that fosters inclusion and reflects the diverse communities we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and perspectives is critical to innovation and to how we deliver great experiences for our users, partners, and teams. We strive to be an open and welcoming environment so that no matter who you are, you can be yourself.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation(s).

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