Principal Product Manager - API Platform

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's 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)

About the role
(Hybrid)

Are you a product manager who loves working with deep technical systems to solve complex stakeholder and traveller problems? Do you enjoy building capabilities that deliver foundational value for travellers, empower teams to move faster, and scale great experiences for millions of users?

We’re looking for a highly skilled Principal Product Manager to drive the evolution of Skyscanner’s Travel API Platform - the foundation of how we deliver search results to travellers at scale. You’ll shape a platform that provides reusable API capabilities for the core of Skyscanner’s business: Search and Lookup – done faster, smarter, and more efficiently.

You’ll work across two backend squads, collaborating closely with engineering and business stakeholders to deliver capabilities that solve complex business problems at the centre of Skyscanner’s search experience. This role requires a blend of technical understanding, execution excellence and proactive stakeholder communication 

What you’ll be doing:

• Strategy setter: Define the strategy and vision for Travel APIs, ensuring alignment with Skyscanner’s wider product and platform goals


• Roadmap owner: Own the product roadmap, balancing immediate business needs with long-term platform investment to maximise traveller impact and business value


• Insight gatherer: Collaborate with engineering and product teams to gather insights and prioritise capabilities that meet their evolving needs


• Discovery driver: Drive discovery and definition of core platform capabilities


• Squad partner: Partner closely with squads to deliver high-impact improvements to the Travel APIs platform


• Quality champion: Ensure quality, reliability and stability through close collaboration with engineering - measuring, monitoring, and improving platform performance


• Platform scaler: Champion scalable, reusable solutions that strengthen the foundations of Skyscanner’s search ecosystem

About you

• Platform product expert: Experience in product management for shared technologies or platform products at a fast-paced, product led company.


• Vision owner: Ability to define and own the vision, strategy and roadmap for a core platform area.


• Data-driven decision maker: Experience making data-driven decisions based on business value, technical feasibility and resource constraints.


• Stakeholder leader: Proven track record of managing multiple stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.


• Clear communicator: Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate business needs into clear product goals and initiatives.


• Technically fluent: Strong technical fluency - comfortable discussing API schemas, contracts, and system architecture and engaging confidently in conversations on these topics with engineering partners.


• Outcome-focused deliverer: Demonstrated success in delivering products that drive measurable business outcomes.

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What it's like 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 ✨.

Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

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.