Product Manager, Mobile

at  Hostelworld Group

ABOUT US

Hostelworld Group PLC is a ground-breaking social network powered OTA focused on the hostel market, with a clear mission to help travellers find people to hang out with.
Founded in 1999, we’re a well-known trusted brand with 240 teammates across 11 countries; hostel partners in 180 countries; and a strong commitment to building a better world in all that we do.
In particular, our focus in the last few years has been on improving the sustainability of the hostelling industry, through our membership of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC); our active involvement in the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative (GTPI); our partnerships with Bureau Veritas to establish emissions benchmarks for the hostelling industry; and our recent partnership with the South Pole to offset all our greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 and 2022. You can read more about our story here: Hostelworld site.
Hostelworld is listed on the London Stock Exchange, Dublin Euronext and is an Investors in Diversity accredited employer.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH ‍‍

We are looking for an entrepreneurial minded Product Manager to manage our app product – which includes our newly released social network for travellers as well as our core bookings experience. Working together with the rest of the Mobile product team, designer, analysts and Engineers and our Head of Mobile to deliver great experiences and strengthen our social strategy further, as well as keep improving our core business experience.
We believe in building a company culture that is focused on ownership and want to find a strong product manager who can continue to deliver value through customer growth and retention.
Our mobile native apps are core to our overall strategy as a company. Both our mobile apps are loved by our customers. iOS and Android have 4.8 and 4.6 store ratings respectively. What we want to do now is go much further and deeper into the lives of our travellers, by enabling them to meet like-minded travellers when they are on their trips. We’ve recently relaunched our apps to give them a fresh new look, as well as introduce a set of features that enable social connections between travellers in the same destination.
Working with Marketing, Product, Data, and Engineering you will focus on developing and implementing upon new strategic initiatives as well as the tasks that keep the lights on. You’ll provide direction and work side by side with engineering to deliver on the Mobile units OKRs.

WHAT YOU’LL DO ‍

• Developing our existing apps and the social experience on them
• Contributing to the overall success of the company through aligned OKRs
• Creating, maintaining and prioritising the teams to build for Growth
• Ensuring key KPIs are tracked, measured and reported on
• Deliver features to improve new customer acquisition and retention
• Iterate on and build our social strategy together with the rest of Mobile Product team
• Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to achieve the best results
• Creating compelling business cases with an impact on growthDiscover, implement and solve significant changes and problems