Senior Director of Travel Experience

2 weeks ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Kayak Full time
Senior Director of Travel Experience

KAYAK is seeking a seasoned Senior Director to lead our travel booking experience. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for enhancing our travel search engine, optimizing checkout processes, and prioritizing projects through collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Optimize checkout processes to boost partner bookings
  • Prioritize projects through collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Define and prioritize user problems and needs, accounting for multiple verticals, brands, locales, and languages
  • Measure and analyze insights from product changes, chasing agreed-upon metrics and opportunities from data, user research, and A/B experiment results
  • Work with customer support and UX to collect feedback from and respond to users
  • Supervise the competitive landscape and stay informed about travel and e-commerce spaces, especially within Flights, and the latest capabilities across multiple platforms
Requirements:
  • Specific experience in working with travel-related APIs and booking flows, with knowledge of New Distribution Capability (NDC) as a plus
  • Familiarity with tailoring development approaches for web and mobile platforms based on use cases and constraints
  • Proficiency in data analysis, including running SQL queries and using data to drive focus and team alignment
  • Personal experience as a regular traveler, offering firsthand insight into user challenges during trip planning and online booking
  • BS degree or equivalent experience required, technical background strongly preferred, MBA or similar experience advantageous
Benefits:
  • 4 weeks paid vacation
  • Day off on your birthday
  • Generous retirement plans
  • Amazing health, dental, and vision insurance plans
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Drinks, coffee, snacks, games, etc.
  • Flexible hours
  • Universal Paid Parental leave
Diversity and Inclusion:

We aspire to have a workplace that reflects all of the diverse communities we serve. We know that when we have diverse teams, we produce more creative ideas, products, and better outcomes for our team members.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.



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