About The Role
(Hybrid)
We’re hiring
a Principal Data Product Manager to manage teams in the Core Data Tribe to drive the strategy and execution of our foundational data products. You’ll lead the
Core Funnel & Business Analytical data product areas—critical capabilities that help teams across Skyscanner make informed decisions and unlock growth.
This is a hands-on role ideal for an experienced people manager who still thrives in getting their sleeves rolled up and connecting the dots across business, engineering, and analytics to deliver high-impact data solutions. Whether you’ve honed these skills within a product-led organisation or come from a data-rich environment elsewhere, you’ll find support and opportunity to grow here.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Manage, coach and mentor a small but high performing team of Product Managers
- Define and execute product strategies for foundational and analytical data products
- Partner with stakeholders across disciplines to identify user needs and innovation opportunities
- Prioritise features, use cases, and requirements that deliver meaningful business value
- Collaborate closely with engineering, analytics, and data science teams to deliver impactful products
- Establish and track KPIs that demonstrate the value and effectiveness of your products
- Gather and analyse feedback and trends to guide continuous improvement
- Champion transparency with regular product updates to stakeholders
- Provide thought leadership on data product best practices and influence strategy across the organisation
About You
- Solid experience of leading a team.
- Excellent communicator and collaborator, skilled at connecting cross-functional teams
- Experience defining product roadmaps and executing strategy in complex environments
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across product, marketing, finance, commercial, and tech
- Comfortable querying datasets directly (e.g. with SQL) to guide product insights
- Knowledge of data concepts like warehousing, ETL, dimensional modelling, machine learning
- Strategic mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to identify and resolve delivery blockers proactively
- Demonstrated leadership qualities; line management and mentoring experience preferred
- Passionate about driving business impact through data products
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