Principal Product Manager (Merchandising)

TL;DR

Principal Product Manager (Merchandising): Defines and delivers merchandising frameworks and retail foundations for hirify.global's global travel inventory with an accent on ranking, sorting, filters, and offer presentation. Focus on building scalable systems, driving experimentation to improve relevance and conversion, and aligning cross-functional teams on merchandising principles.

Location: United States - Washington - Seattle, Chicago, or Austin (flexible work model with some office presence)

Salary: $224,000–$313,500 (Seattle and Austin), $208,000–$291,500 (Chicago)

Company

hirify.global powers global travel for everyone, everywhere by designing cutting-edge technology 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.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (engineering, marketing, design, analytics, pricing, supply) to align on principles and ensure high-quality delivery.

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.
• Technical fluency for system design, APIs, and experimentation.
• Background in merchandising systems, pricing clarity, retail logic, or dynamic content models.
• Familiarity with machine learning for ranking, relevance, or recommendations.
• Experience designing for multi-brand or multi-market environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full benefits package including exciting travel perks and generous time-off.
• Parental leave and a flexible work model with offices.
• Career development resources to fuel passion for travel.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.
• Commitment to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce, participating in E-Verify.