Job responsibilities
- Strategic Product Management for Availability Value stream - Develop and champion a strategic vision and roadmap for Availability & Supply efficiency.
Prioritize initiatives that deliver measurable improvements to SR, IR, L2B, supplier yield, and other relevant metrics.
- Own the end to end availability funnel: Search request received → Supplier called → Rates validated → Rates returned → SR/IR recorded.
- Define, track, and communicate availability KPIs across the organization including Senior leadership
- Supply & Feed Optimization - Design and optimize the Supplier Qualification (SupQ) and StopList business logic, determine which suppliers get traffic and when.
- Partner with Feed Management and Supply Integrations to cut unproductive suppliers or adjust their traffic share.
- Lead S2B optimization, ensuring suppliers QPS and L2B limits are used efficiently through adaptive throttling.
- Oversee Feed Efficiency Dashboards and implement automatic feed rebalancing rules based on ROI.
- Traffic & Demand Optimization
- Partner with Search and B2B API teams to build L2B optimizers that predict and block non convertible search requests.
- Implement ML driven traffic routing to maximize supplier ROI while reducing unnecessary load on low performing suppliers.
- Analyze brand level availability discrepancies and coordinate corrective actions across product lines.
- Availability Monitoring, Reliability & SLOs - Develop a real-time monitoring and alerting framework for availability degradation across pipeline:
- Define clear SLOs for each system component (supplier response time, data freshness, rate loss).
- Launch Availability Dashboards and enable self diagnosis across teams.
- Introduce auto mitigation tools (e.g., supplier rerouting, cache fallback, rate recycling).
- Incident & Success Rate Optimization
- Build incident prediction tools using supplier and rate metadata to detect high risk searches before checkout.
- Collaborate with Rate Management & Checkout teams to shift incident prevention upstream (pre-booking).
- Analyze failure clusters (specific suppliers, regions, rate types) and initiate optimization experiments.
- Introduce issue rate cost models to quantify financial impact of incident prone suppliers.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration - Partner with other Consolidator value streams:
- Search – ensure optimized query formation and routing.
- Content – validate hotel and room data accuracy for availability logic.
- Pricing & Rate Management – align rate filtering and availability rules.
- Checkout – ensure pre-book and book SR optimization.
- Collaborate closely with Analytics, Supply, and Infra teams to align metrics and performance standards.
Key qualifications
- 7+ years in Product Management, ideally in travel, marketplace, or high volume API systems.
- Experience managing supply demand optimization products or availability pipelines.
- Strong data skills (SQL, dashboarding, metric design).
- Familiarity with ML-driven traffic optimization, feed balancing, or availability caching or similar ML products
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or Economics (MBA preferred).
- English level - C1 (advanced)
We offer you
- Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely.
- Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together.
- Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities.
- Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences.
- Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world.
- Corporate prices on hotels and travel services.
- MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day once per quarter without loss of compensation.
Product
Emerging Travel Group is a global travel-tech company whose brands have been operating in over 220 source markets since 2010. We specialize in developing advanced online booking platforms for all types of clients — from individual tourists to travel agents and companies organizing business trips. Our solutions empower hoteliers to effortlessly showcase their accommodations, boosting visibility and attracting a broader audience.
Our mission is to create, distribute, and operate the most convenient travel products. We constantly innovate and break the rules of the highly complex travel industry to make travel more widely available for individuals, more rewarding for professionals, and simpler for everyone.
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