Product Manager, Exoticca
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Travel tour and package provider
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Travel tour and package provider
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
Exoticca's mission is to make people's dream trips come true.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery
- 2 years working on technology-powered products as either a product manager, product designer, engineer, data analyst, data scientist, or user researcher
- Demonstrated ability to learn multiple functional areas of business – engineering, design, finance, sales, or marketing
- Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, use sound judgment to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative
- Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship
- As a Product Manager for a next-generation Travel Operator with an online platform generating $300 million in annual travel package sales, you will lead our Flights and Hotel Global Distribution Systems strategy, to ensure a seamless booking and travel experience
- We are seeking a highly skilled professional to lead this integral component of our operations, including pricing, availability checking, booking, payment, and cancellation
- We know that innovation thrives on product teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible
- As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, diverse educational backgrounds, diverse cultures, and diverse work experiences
- Please be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our product teams
What the job involves
- While the product designer is accountable for ensuring the solution is usable, and the engineers are accountable for ensuring the solution is feasible, the product manager is accountable for ensuring the solution is both valuable and viable
- This means that the product manager must contribute to her product team a solid knowledge of the various constraints of the business – constraints from marketing, sales, service, finance, legal, and privacy are typical examples
- The product manager must also contribute to the product team a deep knowledge of our users and customers and the data about how our customers engage with our products
- Finally, the product manager is expected to track industry trends and the competitive landscape as they pertain to her product
- While each member of the product team may be accountable for a specific risk, we look for product managers who understand that consistent innovation is the result of each member of the product team contributing their passion and their ideas. The product manager must collaborate closely with her product designer and engineers to discover effective solutions, and then work together to deliver those solutions to market
- While we empower our product teams to figure out the best solutions to the problems that need to be solved, we also hold those teams accountable to the results. Shipping is necessary, but not sufficient. We look for product managers who are not afraid of signing up for results, even when this means they have to work through others to achieve the necessary results
- This job, as with the other roles on the product team, is an individual contributor role. You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives, through your use of data and logic
Our take
Booking travel tours and package holidays in exotic locations lead many people to seek logistics help from travel agents. However, the complexity of these packages often means there is little variety available at local branches with extremely high prices, raising the question as to why there is not a more modern and innovative solution available online.
Exoticca provides an online platform for the booking of holiday packages and tours, with a focus on curating luxury destinations that are chosen by travel experts and provided at heavy discounts negotiated through airlines and hotels. The company also aims to provide a frictionless end-to-end travel experience by covering insurance, ABTA and ATOL guarantees, free cancellation, and COVID-19 protection. After renewed funding in 2022, Exoticca has also expanded into B2B verticals, selling software to traditional travel agencies, and is steadily expanding into North and Latin America through its Miami office.
Online travel agents have been around since the dawn of the internet, but Exoticca stands out with its focus on providing curated packages by travel enthusiasts at exclusive locations. Furthermore, the company’s emphasis on convenience and inclusivity ensures that every formality is handled, removing the complexity of travel packages and tours to open the market to a wider audience.
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49% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2024
$66.6m
SERIES D
Jul 2021
$28m
SERIES C
Total funding: $120.3m
Company benefits
- Flexible compensation management for diet, transportation, private health insurance with Cobee
- Hybrid work model: you can work from home and the office at your convenience. Offices in the heart of Barcelona (right next to Plaça Catalunya)
- Permanent contract from the start
- Travel packages at reduced prices!
- Referral bonus, if you bring people as talented as you
- Unlimited coffee, team lunches, English lessons, quarterly activities, biannual parties
- And last but not least, becoming part of a fun and motivated multicultural team at an agile and rapid growing organization!
Company HQ
Dreta de l'Eixample, Barcelona, Spain
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Founders
Jesus Rodriguez Fernandez
(President)Experience as Assistant General Manager for Karisma Tours from 2007 to 2011. Tour Operation Manage for Privalia Travel from 2011 to 2013.
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