About Skyscanner
Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily.
Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all.
Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here).
Now, we’re on the lookout for a
Principal Product Manager - Privacy & Consent to help us bring that vision to even more travellers.
About The Role
(Hybrid)
Skyscanner is looking for a strategic and experienced Principal Product Manager to lead our Privacy & Consent domain, partnering closely with our PrivTech engineering team to advance industry-leading privacy practices. This role will play a key part in Skyscanner’s commitment to pioneering best-in-class privacy standards in travel, focusing on trust, transparency, and user empowerment in our digital ecosystem.
The Principal Product Manager will own a significant and complex area of Skyscanner’s product landscape, driving initiatives that ensure robust compliance, user trust, and transparency in how we handle privacy and consent. This position will involve developing and executing strategies for Privacy & Consent across cross-functional teams, empowering them to deliver measurable outcomes at scale.
What You'll Be Doing
- Strategic Leadership in Privacy and Consent Management: Develop and lead the Privacy & Consent product strategy, including designing systems for tracking, consent management, and data retention that enhance user trust and meet stringent regulatory requirements.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, Legal, and Product teams to embed privacy-by-design principles across product features, maintaining alignment with Skyscanner’s broader strategic objectives.
- Data Framework and Compliance: Lead the development of frameworks to support regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR), manage user data rights (DSAR), and facilitate data audits while ensuring robust data architecture and pipeline integration.
- Building User Trust and Transparency: Drive initiatives that enhance transparency in Skyscanner’s data handling practices, from cookie management to data usage disclosures, working with UX/UI teams to ensure clarity for end users.
- Support External Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with legal and commercial teams in external engagements with regulatory bodies and partners, providing product insights that support Skyscanner’s privacy standards and compliance goals.
- Ownership of KPIs and Performance Metrics: Define and measure key performance indicators (KPIs) to track success, such as user trust metrics, compliance benchmarks, and transparency goals. Continuously assess progress and adjust strategies to align with Skyscanner’s mission.
- Leadership and Team Empowerment: Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration within cross-functional teams, mentoring team members and instilling best practices in agile product development.
About You
- Product Management Expertise: 5+ years of experience in product management, with proven success in tackling complex challenges in online tracking and privacy.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Strong familiarity with data privacy laws like GDPR, ensuring Skyscanner’s practices meet regulatory standards while fostering user trust.
- Preferred Skills: Experience with consent management platforms, data architecture, and user-facing product development, particularly within high-compliance industries.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Exceptional stakeholder and project management skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and influence teams at all levels, from engineering to executive leadership.
- Strategic Problem Solving: Adept at autonomously solving ambiguous and previously unaddressed business challenges, employing data-driven decisions and an analytical mindset to identify and act on growth opportunities.
- Technical Understanding: Sufficient background to collaborate effectively with engineering teams, facilitating discussions around data integration, architecture, and agile processes.
- Continuous Improvement Mindset: Confident in applying a lean and agile approach, testing and iterating quickly, and scaling successful solutions across the organization.
Why you’ll love this role
This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact on how Skyscanner protects user privacy and builds trust with travelers. You’ll be a cultural ambassador for privacy-first values, shaping the future of data management in travel while developing your leadership in a rapidly evolving domain.
What It's Like Here
We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier.
Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better - and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all.
Sound like your kind of adventure? Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.
We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, please let us know. If you'd like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.
