Lead Product Manager - Trading

Loveholidays; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension 5%

Individualised training budget

Discounted holidays for you and family

25 days + 8 public holidays

Buy/sell annual leave

EV salary sacrifice scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Loveholidays is seeking a Platform Product Leader for the Trading OS team, reporting to the Director of OTA Platform. You will define the long-term product vision, create shared data, tools, and capabilities powering pricing, packaging, and availability across markets, enabling AI-driven decisions and faster commercial changes.

Work with engineering, Revenue Management and commercial leaders to shape roadmaps, build flexible APIs, data models, and scalable architecture.

Qualifications

• Proven record of platform product leadership owning technical, API-heavy, data-rich, or internal platform products used by multiple teams.
• Systems thinking ability to model complex dependencies across data, services, and workflows into stable, composable capabilities.
• Strong technical fluency across APIs, data models, distributed systems, configuration engines, and observability to collaborate credibly with engineering.
• Commercial judgement with the ability to connect platform strategy to margin, trading objectives, and customer value.
• Expertise in data and experimentation, comfortable defining metrics, designing controlled tests, and using data to guide decisions.
• Outstanding execution and communication skills to navigate ambiguity, balance platform health with delivery, and align technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering, Revenue Management, and commercial leaders to define the Trading OS roadmap, outcomes, metrics, and investment priorities.
• Build flexible tools, APIs, and data models that enable commercial teams to configure, test, and roll out pricing, packaging, and availability changes.
• Work closely with Engineering on technical design, service boundaries, data contracts, and scalable architecture for AI-assisted decisioning.
• Improve the quality, reliability, and visibility of commercial data to enable faster, engineering-independent commercial changes.
• Use data and controlled experimentation to measure operator efficiency, engineering effort avoided, platform adoption, and commercial impact.
• Drive platform adoption by establishing clear documentation, onboarding, and feedback loops for internal product and commercial consumers.

Skills

Platform leadership

API-driven

Data modeling

Distributed systems

Observability

Commercial judgment

Data experimentation

Stakeholder communication

Systems thinking

Config engines

Job description

Why loveholidays?

We’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway.

Our trailblaze together culture is what drives our success, powered by our people and the way they work. Using progressive technology, we drive cutting-edge innovation and improve how our customers discover, book and experience their holidays. You’ll have the opportunity to accelerate your growth through meaningful challenges, new experiences and the freedom to shape your own path. You’ll create impact for our future by taking ownership, contributing to shared goals and helping shape what comes next, all as part of our enhanced international community of talented, collaborative and passionate teams.

The difference you’ll make

You’ll sit in the Trading OS team, reporting to the Director of OTA Platform. You’ll work closely with lead engineers, Revenue Management, and commercial leaders to define and deliver the long-term product vision for Trading OS, creating shared data, tools, and capabilities that power pricing, packaging, promotions, and availability across markets. Together, the team will focus on enabling commercial and AI teams to configure, test, and automate commercial changes safely and quickly at scale, reducing dependency on engineering and enhancing decision‑making.

Trading OS sits within our Platform function, which builds the technology and shared capabilities that power the loveholidays experience. By creating scalable products, systems and tools, Platform helps the wider organisation move faster, work more independently and deliver better outcomes for customers.

Your day-to-day:

• Partner with engineering, Revenue Management, and commercial leaders to define the Trading OS roadmap, outcomes, metrics, and investment priorities.

• Build flexible tools, APIs, and data models that enable commercial teams to configure, test, and roll out pricing, packaging, and availability changes.

• Work closely with Engineering on technical design, service boundaries, data contracts, and scalable architecture for AI-assisted decisioning.

• Improve the quality, reliability, and visibility of commercial data to enable faster, engineering-independent commercial changes.

• Use data and controlled experimentation to measure operator efficiency, engineering effort avoided, platform adoption, and commercial impact.

• Drive platform adoption by establishing clear documentation, onboarding, and feedback loops for internal product and commercial consumers.

Your skillset:

• Proven record of platform product leadership owning technical, API-heavy, data-rich, or internal platform products used by multiple teams.

• Systems thinking ability to model complex dependencies across data, services, and workflows into stable, composable capabilities.

• Strong technical fluency across APIs, data models, distributed systems, configuration engines, and observability to collaborate credibly with engineering.

• Commercial judgement with the ability to connect platform strategy to margin, trading objectives, and customer value.

• Expertise in data and experimentation, comfortable defining metrics, designing controlled tests, and using data to guide decisions.

• Outstanding execution and communication skills to navigate ambiguity, balance platform health with delivery, and align technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The interview journey:

• Talent acquisition screening - 30 minutes

• First stage with the hiring manager - 45 minutes

• Final stage with key stakeholders, including a platform case to present - 1 hour

• Behavioural and culture conversation with VP of Product - 45 minutes

Perks of joining us:

• Company pension contributions at 5%

• Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up

• Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends

• 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum

• Ability to buy and sell annual leave

• Access to our electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

• Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers

Our commitment to inclusion

At loveholidays, we focus on creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute, grow and succeed. We value the different perspectives, experiences and ideas each person brings, because they help us work better together, challenge our thinking and make stronger decisions.

As we continue to grow and evolve, we want everyone to feel supported and able to do their best work. We’re also committed to making our hiring process accessible, so please let our Talent Acquisition team know if you need any adjustments at any stage.