Product Owner - Flights (Hybrid, the NL-based)

C Teleport; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 67,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work from Rotterdam

8% holiday allowance

25 vacation days

Pension contribution

Job summary

C Teleport, based in Rotterdam, is seeking a product owner to own the flight booking product. You will lead a squad, shape the user experience, and drive AI-powered recommendations for crew travel.

Barriers to success include deep knowledge of flight distribution, APIs, and supplier integrations. The role offers hybrid work from Rotterdam and a strong ownership culture.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as a PO or PM shipping with engineering teams.
• Deep knowledge of flight distribution: GDS, NDC, fares and fare rules, ticketing, servicing.
• Experience shipping products where data or AI drives the decision.
• Ability to work with APIs and supplier integrations.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the flight booking product end-to-end.
• Collaborate with engineering and design to deliver AI-driven recommendations.
• Drive roadmap opportunities with measurable impact from pilot to scale.

Skills

PO/PM experience

Flight distribution knowledge

APIs & supplier integrations

AI-driven product experience

Creative problem solving

Job description

You will own our most booked product, and decide what flight booking looks like when no one has to search anymore.

Flights are the backbone of crew travel. Miss one and a vessel sails short-handed, or a rig waits for its relief crew. And plans rarely hold: >40% of crew bookings change or get cancelled.

Business travel tools wait for someone to search. We don't. Crew travel starts with an operational schedule, so we know who needs to fly before they do. We're moving from "search and book" to "recommended and ready to approve". Our AI predicts the next booking within the customer's travel policy. It plans 10 crew joining and 10 leaving as one decision. And when the schedule shifts, changes that took hours of handling take minutes. No OTA or TMC is building this, because none of them see the schedule.

Creative within complexity

Flights are full of rules written to protect airlines, not travellers. Fare rules, re-issue logic and the way airlines handle changes and cancellations often work against our customers. The airlines have no reason to change that.

The best solutions hide inside those rules. Finding them means understanding the mechanics of distribution deeply enough to see a solution where others see a dead end. That's the job: build what others say can't be done.

About C Teleport

We automate crew travel for maritime, aviation and energy companies, and we power white-label booking tools for travel management companies. We're about 90 people in Rotterdam, working lean: small squads, short lines and real ownership.

What success looks like

• 6 months: You know our flight stack inside out (sources, fares, booking flow, servicing). You've shipped your first improvements, and you've brought at least one new customer opportunity to the roadmap with a clear case behind it.
• 12 months: Recommended, ready-to-approve bookings are live with pilot customers. You've moved [metric] measurably from [baseline].
• 18–24 months: C Teleport is the reference for workforce flight booking. Customers approve crew travel instead of searching for it.

Must-haves

• Hands‑on experience as a PO or PM shipping with engineering teams.
• Deep knowledge of flight distribution: GDS, NDC, fares and fare rules, ticketing, and servicing (re‑issues, refunds, exchanges).
• You've shipped products where data or AI drives the decision, not just the interface.
• You find creative solutions inside complex rules, and you can show us one you built.
• You're comfortable with APIs and supplier integrations, enough to work as an equal with engineers.

Nice‑to‑haves (not required)

• Experience at an airline, OTA, TMC, GDS or NDC aggregator.
• Marine or offshore fares, group bookings, or other B2B corporate travel.
• Building recommendation or prediction models into a product.

This is not for you if…

• You accept "the airline doesn't support that" as an answer.
• You see flights as a search-and-book funnel to optimise.
• You'd rather copy what competitors do than find what they're missing.
• You need a large organisation with specialists around you to get things done.
• You see "Product Owner" as managing a backlog.

What we offer

• Salary range: €6000 – €6200 gross per month
• 8% holiday allowance, 25 vacation days, pension contribution
• Hybrid working from Rotterdam, with commute reimbursement
• 30% ruling eligibility, if applicable

Hiring process

Intro call with HR→ Hiring manager interview → Case on a flight product opportunity → Panel with CEO and SVP of Product → Offer.
Target 3-4 weeks to end.

C Teleport is an equal opportunity employer. We process applicant data in line with GDPR.