Principal Product Manager (m/f/d)

Explore a new world of possibilities

HomeToGo is Europe’s leading vacation rental group with the vision of unlocking better stays. Our team is united by a passion for travel, driven by innovation and impact, and guided by open-minded leaders at every level. Our commitment to recognizing and empowering exceptional talent is the foundation of our growth. We are actively hiring candidates from all around the world, including sponsoring visas for Germany. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!

Your future contribution

In this role, you will own and shape the product that unlocks better stays for millions of travelers, shaping how HomeToGo evolves into an AI-driven OTA that helps users reach confident decisions and drives sustained retention. 
You will be accountable for the full “first mile” of the journey: how travelers arrive, orient themselves, explore options, compare tradeoffs, and decide. Your mandate is to shape how the marketplace functions as a decision system that helps users narrow options, understand value, and trust what they see, consistently across Web and App. 
Operating with a system-level mindset, you will translate company strategy into product principles, metrics, and roadmaps while balancing traveler confidence, partner success, and long-term marketplace health.

How you’ll add value

• Build discovery as a decision system: Own how travelers move from choice overload to clarity by defining how relevance, value for money, and quality are established and communicated.
• Make discovery adaptive to context and intent: Design a context-aware system that responds to how and why travelers arrive, ensuring entry experiences and ranking adapt to channel, timing, and constraints.
• Esure end-to-end consistency and trust: Take responsibility for coherence across Web and App, particularly around pricing and value signals, to reinforce confidence throughout the journey.
• Exercise judgment at scale: Operate effectively in ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces, balancing experimentation with conviction to raise quality without slowing momentum.

You’ll be successful in this role if you

• Bring 10+ years of Product Management experience, including ownership of large, ambiguous problem spaces in Search, Discovery, and Conversion within a high-volume B2C marketplace.
• Demonstrate a proven ability to translate supply constraints and demand signals into a clear product thesis, making explicit tradeoffs that deliver measurable business impact.
• Possess deep working knowledge of search and ranking systems, with the ability to debate technical tradeoffs with Engineering and Data Science as a peer.
• Lead through influence and horizontal alignment across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Retention to drive shared outcomes.
• Communicate with clarity, resolving competing priorities and maintaining strategic coherence in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Note : We operate a rolling recruitment approach - no deadlines, just opportunities. Should the volume of applications become too high, we might briefly remove this posting to provide our hiring team the space for thorough and unbiased review. The role will be made available again if we decide we’re still looking for the right fit.

What we offer

• Flexible hybrid work: Work remotely up to 50% of the year, including up to 63 days of "work from anywhere" within the EU and UK.*

• Competitive compensation: Market-aligned salary plus stock options for eligible roles.

• Generous time off: 27 vacation days to start, increasing with tenure to up to 32 days.

• Dog-friendly offices: Bring your four-legged friend along – our offices welcome well-behaved dogs.

• Relocation & visa support: Full visa sponsorship and relocation support for international hires joining our Berlin office.*

• Growth & development: German classes, masterclasses, and cross-team mentoring.

• Commuter & mobility perks: Monthly subsidy for the Deutschland-Ticket and tax-advantaged bike leasing via salary conversion.

• Wellbeing & fitness: Mental health support resources and subsidized sports memberships.

• Travel & lifestyle perks: Exclusive discounts via HomeToGo_Friends, Travel Industry Card deals, and 20% off Union Berlin fan gear.

• Climate responsibility: We practice responsible stewardship daily and embed ESG at the heart of our operations, while collaborating with Plan A to stay accountable for our carbon footprint and environmental impact

• AI-first culture: Leverage a world-class AI ecosystem with Google Enterprise+, Slack AI, and SOTA model access via Copilot, Claude or LiteLLM. By using our custom agents for automation and knowledge management, you’ll become a first-class adopter of the AI workflows defining industry best practices.

*Certain conditions apply.

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• All legitimate job opportunities are listed on our official Careers Page .
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About us

HomeToGo is the SaaS-enabled marketplace with the world's largest selection of vacation rentals, listing millions of offers from thousands of trusted partners, including Booking.com , Vrbo and TripAdvisor. From vacation homes, cabins, beach houses, apartments, condos, house boats, castles, farm stays and everything in between, HomeToGo combines price, destination, dates and amenities to find the perfect accommodation for any trip worldwide.

Founded in 2014, HomeToGo operates localized apps & websites in more than 30 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo also operates brands such as Agriturismo.it , AMIVAC, atraveo, Casamundo, CaseVacanza.it , e-domizil, EscapadaRural, Kurzurlaub, Kurz Mal Weg, Tripping.com and Wimdu.

HomeToGo is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring and nurturing exceptional talent, representing various backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We are authentically candid and open-minded, fostering a safe environment for diverse opinions. Our hiring decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We do not discriminate against race, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political, ideological or religious views, disability or age.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a workforce of equality and diversity at HomeToGo and to provide opportunities to everyone. We therefore welcome your application even if you aren't completely confident that your experiences fit the job description criteria. We would really love to get to know you!