Principal Product Manager, Merchandising (Traveltech)

TL;DR

Principal Product Manager, Merchandising (Traveltech): Defines and delivers merchandising frameworks and retail foundations for hirify.global's global inventory and offers, with an accent on optimizing how travelers discover, compare, and understand their choices. Focus on shaping the roadmap for ranking, sorting, filters, and offer presentation across multiple brands and global markets, driving experimentation and building scalable systems for automated decisioning.

Location: Based in Chicago, Seattle, or Austin, United States.

Salary: $208,000.00–$358,500.00

Company

hirify.global powers global travel with cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking solutions for partners, fostering an open and diverse culture.

What you will do

• Define the merchandising strategy for how inventory, offers, and product attributes are presented across hirify.global.
• Lead the roadmap for ranking, sorting, filters, badging, product attributes, and offer presentation.
• Build scalable systems that support automated decisioning and real-time context.
• Establish merchandising patterns and governance for consistency and brand differentiation.
• Drive experimentation to improve relevance, clarity, and conversion.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (engineering, marketing, design, analytics, pricing, supply) to ensure predictable, high-quality platform delivery.
• Coach and develop product managers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, with leadership roles in ecommerce or merchandising.
• Experience owning high-volume retail or shopping experiences.
• Strong understanding of ranking, relevance, discovery, and experimentation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across engineering, design, analytics, pricing, and supply.
• Strong data fluency and experience using experimentation and insights to guide decisions.
• Ability to create clear, structured product roadmaps in complex retail systems.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align across multiple teams.

Nice to have

• Experience building or scaling platforms that support multiple products or surfaces.
• Technical fluency and ease working with engineering on system design, APIs, experimentation, and end-to-end platform behavior.
• Background in merchandising systems, pricing clarity, retail logic, or dynamic content models.
• Familiarity with machine learning and how ML-driven signals improve retail outcomes.
• Experience designing for multi-brand or multi-market environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, and parental leave.
• Flexible work model (with some cool offices).
• Career development resources to fuel passion for travel.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.
• Commitment to an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce.
• Recognized as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024.