Product Operations Specialist, Flights

Company: Hopper
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job Description:

About The RoleAs Product Operation Specialist within the Flights Supply team, you will help Flights Supply investigate issues and help uncover solutions for some of our highest-impact problems. You will serve as a subject matter expert on all of our booking service providers with a specialized focus on our HTS International Portals products: monitoring their health, identifying issues, recommending solutions, and supporting new content launches. You will need to be able to roll your sleeves up to get to the core source of an issue, working with multiple stakeholders internal and external to provide samples of problems and strategize solutions. You will also help us test new product launches and communicate where necessary with our provider partners to troubleshoot.This position requires a highly analytical and self-driven individual who can successfully manage multiple shifting priorities and juggle multiple projects at once. The ideal candidate is a competent self-starter who stays cool under pressure, has an eye for detail, and enjoys the challenge of learning to understand systems and products that they may not already be familiar with.Responsibilities

• Be a subject matter expert in navigating our booking environments and answering stakeholder questions related to bugs, missing content, and new product launches.
• Own portions of operation health measurement, alerting, and incident reporting.
• Serve as an incident manager as needed for high-impact outages and product issues.
• Liaison with stakeholders at vendor partners to report issues and strategize solutions.
• Set requirements for new product launches to ensure benchmarks are met.
• Field questions from company stakeholders via intake process and document reported bugs.
• Work with product and engineering teams to strategize solutions to known bugs, create tickets to report said bugs, and test fixes once implemented.
• Run tests in the app environment when new content or products are launched.
• Maintain high-quality documentation of systems, processes, and settings.
• Flex as needed to support operational tasks in an ad-hoc manner.Minimum Qualifications
  • A passion for Hopper's mission to build the most customer centric travel marketplace on Earth.
  • Excellent judgment; ability to ask smart questions and make quick, impactful decisions.
  • Resilient attitude, ability to stay on your toes and move with any changes that may come your way.
  • Drive to work autonomously, take initiative to research and analyze problems, find solutions, and communicate with stakeholders.
  • Customer, team & company player. Take on delegated tasks with enthusiasm towards the greater good of the company.
  • Exceptional ability to grasp, manage, and articulate complex systems.
  • Strong organizational skills in order to stay on top of multiple tasks at once.Preferred Qualifications
    • Experience in the travel industry, especially air travel, is a huge bonus.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
    • A minimum of 2 year experience in Product Operations working with Product teams and Engineering teams.
    • Deep domain knowledge in air shopping and booking providers (Sabre, Travelport, Amadeus, NDC, SPRK, ARC, BSP).
    • Experience with operation tools like Jira, Confluence, Amplitude, Datadog, Google Sheets.
    • Experience working with SQL.Perks & Benefits
      • Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary, upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
      • Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for the employee for a group insurance plan through Vitality Health.
      • Automatic contributions when you start with Hopper through Smart Pension.
      • Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!
      • Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
      • Carrot Cash travel stipend.
      • Unlimited PTO.
      • Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
      • Open communication with management and company leadership.
      • Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.$55,000 - $75,000 a yearThe yearly base compensation for this position ranges from $55,000 to $75,000 USD. Compensation will be determined by candidates' relevant qualifications, knowledge, skills and work experience.Total compensation can include a solid base salary and may also include equity (options / RSUs), sign-on bonus and other potential incentives.More about HopperAt Hopper, we are on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally - powering Hopper's mobile app, website and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility and savings to travelers globally.The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and continues to capture market share around the world. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, the Hopper app has been downloaded over 120 million times and has become largely popular among younger travelers - with 70% of its users being Gen Z and millennials.While everyone knows us as the Gen Z and Millennial travel app, Hopper has evolved to become much more than that. In recent years, we've grown into a global travel agency and travel fintech provider that powers some of the world's largest brands.Through , our B2B division, the company supercharges its partners' direct channels by integrating our fintech products on their sites or powering end-to-end travel portals. Today, our partners include leading travel brands like Capital One, Nubank, Air Canada and many more.Hopper has raised over $750 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world. Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration as the world's fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace.Come take off with us!
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