Principal Product Management (Merchandising)

TL;DR

Principal Product Management (Merchandising): Define and deliver the merchandising frameworks and retail foundations that shape how millions of travelers around the world engage with inventory and offers with an accent on technology, data, and customer experience. Focus on building scalable systems that support automated decisioning and real-time context, improving relevance, clarity, and conversion.

Location: Hybrid in Austin, Chicago, or Seattle, USA

Salary: $224,000.00 to $313,500.00 in Austin, $208,000.00 to $291,500.00 in Chicago, and $224,000.00 to $313,500.00 in Seattle.

Company

hirify.global powers global travel for everyone, everywhere by designing cutting-edge tech and creating groundbreaking solutions for partners.

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 that create consistency where it matters and allow brands to differentiate where they should.
• Drive experimentation to improve relevance, clarity, and conversion.

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.

Nice to have

• Experience building or scaling platforms that support multiple products or surfaces, including services, data flows, and configuration models.
• 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 such as ranking, relevance, or recommendations improve retail outcomes.

Culture & Benefits

• Full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, and a flexible work model.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.
• Named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.