Senior Manager, Platform

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Palo Alto, CA
Senior level
Big Data • Cloud • Information Technology • Software • Travel
Spotnana makes corporate travel simpler and more affordable.
The Role
As a Senior Manager for Platform, you will lead the development of platform capabilities that align with customer needs and business goals. You'll identify opportunities through industry research, collaborate with various teams for optimal customer experience, and manage communication with stakeholders to drive product success.
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Are you ready for the best destination of your career?

Spotnana is transforming the $11 trillion travel industry by building modern infrastructure that brings freedom, simplicity, and trust to travelers worldwide.
Backed by over $115M in funding from top-tier investors, including ICONIQ, Durable, Mubadala, Madrona, and Sandberg Bernthal Ventures, we are addressing some of the travel industry's most complex challenges—and we need your expertise to help us succeed.

How you'll make an impact

As our Lead Product Manager, you will be leading the strategic development of our platform capabilities, enabling our customers and partners to leverage the Spotnana platform to support and grow their business. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals, and champion data-driven decision-making and innovation throughout the organization.


What you'll own

  • Develop platform strategy that meets both customer needs and business outcomes. Define success metrics and drive execution in a rapidly evolving, ambiguous environment.
  • Proactively identify opportunities based on customer and competitive research, industry trends, and best practices.
  • Build personalized, scalable and high-performance platform capabilities with cost-efficiency at-scale, using cloud computing and ML/AI. Demonstrated success in driving engagement with engineering, system architecture and data science teams.
  • Collaborate with engineering, design, data science and operations teams to deliver delightful customer experiences. Serve as the primary point of contact for inquiries and decisions, fostering alignment and driving consensus.
  • Excellent communication skills, updating product roadmap and progress with customers, stakeholders and leadership

Experience to bring with you

  • 6+ years of experience in product management with platform product, API integrations and ML/AI
  • 2+ years of experience in the travel industry is preferred
  • Experience in a data informed, agile product development setup in SaaS or PaaS
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and prioritize competing priorities, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term strategic objectives
  • Strong leadership, communication and influencing skills working with stakeholders and leadership
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or an equivalent practical experience. An MBA would be a plus
  • Willing and able to work in an open office environment in Palo Alto in a hybrid structure. This role is not remote-eligible

Let’s talk compensation

Spotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive and equitable compensation. Our approach holistically assesses total compensation, including cash, company equity and comprehensive benefits. Our market-based compensation approach uses data from trusted third party compensation sources to set salary ranges that are thoughtful and consistent with the role, industry, company size, and internal equity of our team. Each employee is paid within the minimum and maximum of their position’s compensation range based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related specifications.

The annual cash compensation for this role is: $180,000 - $210,000

We care for the people who make everything possible - our benefits offerings include:

  • Equity in the form of stock options which provides partial ownership in the company so you can share in the success of the company as it grows
  • Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
  • Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
  • Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
  • 20 vacation days per year in additional to 10 company holidays, 4 company recharge/wellness days and an end of year company shutdown
  • Up to 26 weeks of Parental Leave
  • Monthly cell phone / internet stipend
  • Additional benefits including access to RocketLawyer’s online legal platform, International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership, Pet Insurance through Fetch, Financial Wellness through Origin and SoFi, EAP through Mutual of Omaha, The Calm app through Kaiser, pre-tax parking/transit program and more

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment and to encourage these values in everyone on our team. We provide an environment of mutual respect where opportunities are available without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion for people from all walks of life is key to our success as a company.

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The Company
Palo Alto, CA
356 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Spotnana is the travel platform that connects humanity. We are modernizing the infrastructure of the travel industry in order to bring freedom, simplicity, and trust to travelers everywhere. Our groundbreaking Travel-as-a-Service platform revolutionizes travel for corporations and consumers, modernizes how travel suppliers sell their inventory, and enables any company to provide the world's best global travel experiences to their customers.

Why Work With Us

We're modernizing a trillion dollar industry responsible for transporting billions of people every year. We believe people form stronger bonds of trust, empathy, and understanding when they gather together in person.

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Spotnana Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Spotnana strives to facilitate a highly collaborative workplace, both virtually and in-person. We have adopted a hybrid workplace model. As not all teams/roles align to a hybrid model, we support alternate working arrangements for eligible positions.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
Palo Alto, CA

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