Junior PM, Luxury Travel
Flywire
Company Description
Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!
Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.
What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Who we are:
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world.
Today we support more than 4,600 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.
With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
Job Description
The Opportunity:
We are looking for a Junior Product Manager to drive impact in our rapidly growing travel business by identifying and solving problems that provide value to our customers and stakeholders in the luxury travel space. Product Managers at Flywire like to win. You’ll be part of a team who is focused on identifying what a winning product looks like and how it will succeed. In order to accomplish this, you will take on a role working with an established product leader and engineering teams to drive the business forward with the following responsibilities:
- Work under supervision to oversee product launches of small to medium complexity projects and features.
- Understand and contribute to the overall product strategy and vision through the roadmap.
- Define initiatives in detail in order to get the most impact out of the product roadmap.
- Earn the trust and confidence of the development team through influence and be responsible for prioritizing and defining the deliverables and outcomes for your team. Lead the squad of your product area, managing the different agile rituals to ensure deliverability. You will work alongside engineers, QA, and designers
- Be able to work across cross-functional teams and influence them to drive your roadmap objectives.
- Build products and new functionalities with design and engineering teams following product rituals and writing detailed requirements.
- Become the expert on your product while understanding how your product fits within the Flywire ecosystem.
- Use a variety of tools and data to understand how your product is performing.
- Identify opportunities, gather problems and find solutions for your customers (internal and external) and stakeholders. Learn how your product is positioned in the market and anticipate market trends.
- Be able to effectively communicate your ideas and viewpoints to a varied audience.
- Must be comfortable working across multiple time zones in this highly collaborative role.
- Engage in travel as needed.
Qualifications
Here's What We're Looking For:
- Up to two years of Product Management experience, with a demonstrable passion for building user-centric products.
- Good understanding and/or interest in the Travel space, with experience in cross-border payments preferred.
- Skill in conducting user research and discovery.
- Ability to establish, track, and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive product growth and optimization
- Entrepreneurial mindset that embraces continuous iteration and improvement, including the use of a/b testing methodologies to drive data-informed product decisions, optimize the user experience, and validate hypotheses through experimentation.
- Ability to see initiatives from discovery to launch with a focus on execution.
- An excellent communicator - at the heart of every great product manager is the ability to communicate your vision effectively
- Ability to write concise, contextual requirements.
- Experienced in lean and agile product development methodologies preferred.
Additional Information
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
- Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
- Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
- Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
- Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
- Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and
- Digital Disconnect Days!
- Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers!)
Submit today and get started!
We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $70,000-$88,000 plus restricted stock units and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, position level, and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and several other factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education and training. Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 30 nationalities across 12 different offices, and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda, we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer.