Global Travel Tech Product Director

The Travel Corporation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Global travel brands

Job summary

The Travel Corporation is seeking a Director of Product for Touring brands Trafalgar and Contiki to set the product direction and lead a global team. This senior role blends brand ambition, customer experience and technology to deliver a focused roadmap across websites, booking journeys, portals, travel agent and contact centre experiences.

You will partner with brand leaders, enterprise architecture and engineering, balancing immediate improvements with platform modernisation while building a

Qualifications

• Significant product leadership experience in a complex, technology-enabled organisation ideally within the Travel sector aligning to our products.
• Strong blend of commercial, business and technology leadership.
• Experience building a product-led organisation or embedding strong product management disciplines.
• Experience owning interconnected customer-facing and operational products, platforms and journeys.
• Understanding of reservations, booking, e-commerce, travel agent, contact centre or customer engagement environments.
• A track record of translating different brand and customer needs into a clear strategy and prioritised roadmap.
• Experience navigating legacy platforms, modernisation, integration or systems simplification.
• Proven leadership of senior product professionals in a global or matrix environment.

Responsibilities

• Set a clear product vision, strategy and operating model for Trafalgar and Contiki.
• Own the global Touring product portfolio and roadmap across guest, trade, contact centre, booking and operational journeys.
• Bring clear ownership and prioritisation to products and platforms that connect with Tropics and related services.
• Partner with brand leaders to understand distinct customer and commercial needs and turn them into focused product outcomes.
• Balance immediate improvements with longer-term platform modernisation, integration and simplification.
• Work with Technology Delivery, enterprise architecture, engineering and Poland-based teams to shape practical, scalable solutions.
• Provide product leadership alongside major Transformation programmes creating clear accountability between product and project delivery.
• Lead and develop the Product domain leaders, building a strong, commercially minded product community.

Skills

Product leadership

Travel sector experience

Global leadership

Product strategy

Commercial leadership

Technology leadership

Stakeholder management

Job description

The Travel Corporation is seeking a Director of Product for Touring brands Trafalgar and Contiki to set the product direction and lead a global team. This senior role blends brand ambition, customer experience and technology to deliver a focused roadmap across websites, booking journeys, portals, travel agent and contact centre experiences.

You will partner with brand leaders, enterprise architecture and engineering, balancing immediate improvements with platform modernisation while building a