RateGain - Vice President - Product Management - Travel Segment (15-20 yrs)

About RateGain:

RateGain Travel Technologies Limited is a global provider of AI- powered SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality that works with 3,200+ customers and 700+ partners in 100+ countries, helping them accelerate revenue generation through acquisition, retention, and wallet share expansion.

RateGain is one of the world's largest processors of electronic transactions, price points, and travel intent data, helping revenue management, distribution, and marketing teams across hotels, airlines, meta- search companies, package providers, car rentals, travel management companies, cruises, and ferries drive better outcomes for their businesses

Exploring the role:

We are seeking an experienced Vice President - Product Management level to join our team. As a Vice President , you will be in a high visibility role responsible for leading & managing multiple complex technical products across different teams and departments with global reach. The objective is that RG needs to belong to the tech ecosystem in its key markets and that needs to be such that our product is in alignment with our key partners. These key partners will be strategic and can be across categories like Payment, PMS, OTAs, RMS and any other.

Know more about the Business you will joining:

You will be a joining our Distribution Business which enables seamless connectivity between Hotels and their demand partners including OTAs, GDS and others Communicate availability, rates, inventory and content AI led product to standardize content distribution.- Distribution business operates in Subscription and Transaction revenue models and generate 34.4 % of revenue to the total business of RateGain.

Product Overview:

RateGain's Distribution product suite is a robust and comprehensive solution that empowers hotels, airlines, car rentals, and other travel service providers to manage and optimize their inventory distribution across a wide range of channels. Designed to maximize visibility and reach, it ensures that your inventory is always available to the right customers at the right time.

How your day will look like/Job responsibility:

- You will contribute in defining the product vision, define the product roadmap, involve in direct product development and roadmap ,execution & also ensure a high return on investment (ROI) on your product.-

- Identify and articulate the problem statement clearly and should have the ability to deep dive in the solutioning manage its solution delivery. Communicate the accurate details of the requirement and the outcome expected to during white boarding session and in writing. Gather information informally but ensure giving directions formally.-

- Ability to identify dependencies, highlight risks and its mitigation plan.

Understand the market, define and lead the product vision, the product line, and the competition extremely well and operate with a strong basis of knowledge and confidence.-

- Stay on top of market trends to determine the right product at the right time and take responsibility for devising and executing the plan.-

- Anticipate and identify product flaws and build real solutions. Take positions on important issues like competitive benchmarking, architectural choices, product decisions, and drive the product to market-

- Define and design products that can be executed with a strong effort and not just focus on how many features that competitors are building.-

- Have complete clarity on the differences among delivering value, matching competitive features, pricing, and ubiquity.-

- Deliver superior value to the marketplace during product planning and achieving market share and revenue goals during the go- to- market phase.-

- Identify opportunities for analytics with the data at hand by working closely with key stakeholders, customers, and the data science team.-

- Collaborate with the Product Managers, Development Managers, and Quality Assurance to maintain the product backlog.-

- Participate in Sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings and provide feedback. Manage scope and define the minimum viable product for assigned development concepts.-

Education & Work Experience:

- 15+ years of experience in Product Management, with minimum 10+ years of experience in Enterprise level B2B Product Management

- Hands on understanding of 3rd party APIs & Integrations, technology involved in stability, reliability & security of product, OAM (Operations, Administration, Maintenance), Reports, Analytics, Reconciliation etc involved in an Enterprise level B2B Products

- Work Experience in travel & hospitality B2B product will be an added advantage

Knowledge:

- Will be able to articulate a platform and product vision and be capable of blending the needs of other product managers, data science team, different technical & business groups into a well- formed technical product & platform road map.-

- Should be able to work closely with other internal and external product and technology experts.-

- Should be a data citizen with the ability to analyze data and derive high- level insights

Skills:

- To succeed in this role, you should be a creative leader and a reliable problem- solver.-

- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.

- Confident and have a knack for knowing what ideas that will and won't work.-

- An ability to become a product domain expert and go to person in the company.

- Team Management

Attitude/Disposition:

- Customer Obsession

- Managing Conflict

- Creative Thinking

- Teamwork

- Ownership Mindset

- People First

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.