Principal Product Manager, Advertising

Skyscanner; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel technology company is seeking a Principal Product Manager to enhance the advertising traveller experience. You will lead the product strategy while collaborating cross-functionally to create impactful native ad products. The ideal candidate has significant experience in ad tech, demonstrates data-driven decision-making, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. This is a hybrid role located in the City of Westminster, offering flexibility and an inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Inclusive workplace culture

Comprehensive parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Led product development in advertising, ideally at a consumer-facing platform.
• Balance between business goals and user delight.
• Digging into data to guide product decisions.
• Comfortable discussing technical architecture with engineering.
• Inspire teams and influence stakeholders collaboratively.
• Bring creative and strategic ideas to the organization.
• Thrive in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the traveller experience and ensure ads are relevant.
• Set and communicate a clear product vision.
• Use insights to create measurable business impact.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver advertising products.
• Simplify complexity to focus on traveler needs.
• Drive and learn from experimentation.
• Set ambitious goals to impact revenue and user experience.

Skills

Experience in advertising product development

Ability to drive user-focused products

Strong analytical skills

Technical fluency

Leadership and collaboration skills

Strategic thinking

Adaptability in a fast-paced environment

Job description

We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our Advertising Team, leading and developing our advertising traveller experience products. You’ll be the driving force behind the evolution of our native advertising experiences, creating value for our partners while keeping the traveller front and centre. You will collaborate across disciplines, champion data‑driven decisions, and launch features that deliver measurable results. (Hybrid) The role is located on a hybrid schedule, balancing on‑site collaboration with remote flexibility.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Owning the traveller experience : Shaping how travellers encounter ads that feel relevant, helpful, and native – never intrusive.
• Setting the strategy : Building and communicating a clear product vision that inspires your squad and aligns stakeholders across the business.
• Turning insight into impact : Using user research, analytics, and testing to uncover opportunities and transform them into measurable results.
• Collaborating cross‑functionally : Working with design, engineering, data science, and commercial teams to bring elegant advertising products to life.
• Simplifying complexity : Making sense of the big picture and cutting through noise to focus on what truly matters to travellers.
• Driving experimentation : Testing, iterating, and learning fast – because the only bad idea is one that never got tested.
• Championing performance : Setting ambitious goals and ensuring your products deliver impact across experience and revenue metrics.

About You

• Experienced ad tech pro : You’ve led product development in advertising, ideally at a large‑scale, consumer‑facing platform.
• Traveller‑focused : You understand how to balance business goals with user delight.
• Data‑driven and curious : You love digging into numbers, experiments, and insights to guide decisions.
• Technically fluent : You can comfortably discuss architecture and infrastructure with engineering teams.
• Collaborative leader : You inspire teams and influence stakeholders without relying on hierarchy.
• Strategic and creative : You connect dots across the organisation and bring bold, thoughtful ideas to the table.
• Adaptable and resilient : You’re at home in fast‑paced environments and thrive when things are evolving.

Desirable Skills

• Experience leveraging AI within advertising or traveller experiences.

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges. That’s why we’ve spent 20 years building tools that turn travel‑planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole '47 browser tabs open' phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily. Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that is striving to become the planet’s go‑to travel hack accessible for all. Our vision? To be the world’s number one travel ally. (Ambitious? Yes, but, hey, that’s what got us here). We are the real deal – no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better – and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all. We’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent / maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.