Head of Product
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Occupation TypeSales accounts and business development managers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£55,200
(£28.31 per hour)
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About Us
We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄
Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.
Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.
Introducing Search & Commerce in Product at Trainline 👋
Search & Commerce sits at the heart of Trainline’s customer experience and commercial performance. It powers how millions of customers across Europe find journeys, compare options, select fares, and complete purchases — across mobile apps, web, and emerging surfaces.
This domain spans the full search, discovery, booking, and purchase journey, combining customer-facing experience with a highly performant and scalable platform. It operates at massive scale, across multiple markets, languages, and regulatory environments, and is central to Trainline’s growth ambitions in both the UK and Europe.
This role owns the end-to-end product vision, strategy, and outcomes for Search & Commerce — ensuring Trainline delivers a fast, personalised, friction-free purchase experience that drives customer satisfaction, conversion, and long-term value.
As the Head of Product for Search & Commerce at Trainline, you will... 🚄
We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄
Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.
Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.
Introducing Search & Commerce in Product at Trainline 👋
Search & Commerce sits at the heart of Trainline’s customer experience and commercial performance. It powers how millions of customers across Europe find journeys, compare options, select fares, and complete purchases — across mobile apps, web, and emerging surfaces.
This domain spans the full search, discovery, booking, and purchase journey, combining customer-facing experience with a highly performant and scalable platform. It operates at massive scale, across multiple markets, languages, and regulatory environments, and is central to Trainline’s growth ambitions in both the UK and Europe.
This role owns the end-to-end product vision, strategy, and outcomes for Search & Commerce — ensuring Trainline delivers a fast, personalised, friction-free purchase experience that drives customer satisfaction, conversion, and long-term value.
As the Head of Product for Search & Commerce at Trainline, you will... 🚄
We’re looking for a Head of Product – Search & Commerce to lead one of Trainline’s most critical and visible product domains.
Operating at senior leadership level, this role defines the long-term vision for Search & Commerce and leads its execution in close partnership with Engineering, Data Science, Design, Commercial and Marketing teams.
This role combines deep customer empathy, strong commercial instinct, and technical credibility, balancing experience innovation with platform performance, reliability, and scalability. You will be accountable for the success of Trainline’s global booking flow and the evolution of the Search & Commerce platform that underpins it.
Product Strategy & Vision
Operating at senior leadership level, this role defines the long-term vision for Search & Commerce and leads its execution in close partnership with Engineering, Data Science, Design, Commercial and Marketing teams.
This role combines deep customer empathy, strong commercial instinct, and technical credibility, balancing experience innovation with platform performance, reliability, and scalability. You will be accountable for the success of Trainline’s global booking flow and the evolution of the Search & Commerce platform that underpins it.
Product Strategy & Vision
- Set and communicate a clear long-term vision for Search & Commerce, aligned with Trainline’s company strategy, growth goals, and international expansion.
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for the end-to-end Search & Buy journey, spanning discovery, booking, and purchase across web and mobile.
- Be the recognised product authority for Search & Commerce, with strong informed opinions on customer experience, conversion, and platform evolution.
- Continuously evaluate industry trends, customer expectations, and best practice in ecommerce and search-driven experiences.
- Champion a personalised, dynamic, and friction-free customer experience across all Search & Commerce touchpoints.
- Act as the customer advocate, grounding decisions in deep qualitative and quantitative insight.
- Partner closely with Data Science, Research, and Analytics to define hypotheses, run experiments, and measure success through clear KPIs and OKRs.
- Drive a strong culture of learning, experimentation, and evidence-based decision-making at scale.
- Own end-to-end product delivery for the Search & Commerce domain, partnering closely with Engineering to ensure appropriate technical investment and reliable execution.
- Ensure product decisions are tightly connected to commercial outcomes, including conversion, revenue growth, and customer lifetime value.
- Partner closely with Commercial, Marketing, Growth, Finance, and PR teams to deliver product experiences that successfully go to market.
- Act as a senior product leader across Product and Technology, contributing to broader product strategy and experience coherence.
- Influence prioritisation, investment decisions, and trade-offs at VP and Exec level.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Product Managers across the Search & Commerce domain.
- Set clear expectations, standards, and ways of working that enable teams to operate autonomously and effectively.
- Build a healthy, collaborative Product and Engineering culture grounded in Trainline’s values and leadership behaviours.
- Role-model strong ownership, accountability, and product craft.
- Extensive experience leading product strategy and delivery for core consumer purchase or booking experiences at scale.
- Proven track record owning and optimising search-driven or funnel-based ecommerce experiences in a multi-market environment.
- Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to connect customer experience decisions to growth and revenue outcomes.
Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!
We're operate a hybrid model to work and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.
Our Values Represent The Things That Matter Most To Us And What We Live And Breathe Everyday, In Everything We Do
- 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail
- ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
- 🤝 Travel Together - We're one team
- ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact
Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!