About the Role
We’re building a high‑impact product team focused on transforming how customers search and discover their ideal holiday.
As Senior Product Manager for Search, you’ll lead the strategy and execution for our Search experience. Your work will directly shape how customers navigate large, complex inventories and find the holiday that’s right for them, faster, smarter, and more intuitively.
You’ll work closely with Engineering, Data Science, and UX to evolve search algorithms, ranking, filtering, and personalisation, unlocking significant improvements in relevance, conversion, and customer satisfaction.
This role is ideal for a Senior Product Manager from a high‑traffic, high‑volume eCommerce or marketplace environment, with deep experience in search, discovery, or personalisation‑led products.
What You’ll Be Working On
* Search & Discovery Experience: Designing and optimising how customers search, filter, and browse holidays, ensuring relevance, clarity, and ease of use at scale.
* Personalised Search Results: Leveraging customer behaviour, intent, and context to personalise rankings, recommendations, and content across Search Results Pages.
* Search Algorithms & Ranking: Partnering with Data Science to define, test, and deploy ranking, relevance, and learning‑to‑rank models.
* Scalable Search Platforms: Evolving search infrastructure to support performance, experimentation, real‑time decisioning, and increasing inventory complexity.
What you’ll be doing day to day
As a Senior Product Manager in Search, your day‑to‑day will balance strategic leadership with hands‑on delivery. You’ll spend your time shaping direction, making data‑led decisions, and working closely with cross‑functional teams to improve how millions of customers discover and choose their holidays.
* Own and evolve the Search product vision and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with customer needs, business objectives, and our wider platform strategy.
* Partner daily with Engineering, Data Science, and UX to design, build, test, and iterate on search, ranking, filtering, and discovery experiences.
* Use customer insights, analytics, and experimentation to understand intent, relevance, and friction across the search journey, translating findings into prioritised product opportunities.
* Define clear problem statements, hypotheses, and success metrics for initiatives, ensuring work is outcome‑focused rather than output‑driven.
* Work closely with data scientists on relevance, ranking, and personalisation models—helping to frame problems, interpret results, and turn complex algorithmic behaviour into customer value.
* Lead refinement, planning, and prioritisation activities, breaking down complex search challenges into clear, deliverable milestones.
* Review performance of Search Results Pages (SRPs), filters, and ranking logic, identifying opportunities to improve conversion, engagement, and satisfaction.
* Communicate progress, trade‑offs, and impact clearly to senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted voice for Search across the business.
* Continuously look for ways to improve how we work, championing experimentation, learning, and modern product practices within the Search domain.
Skills, knowledge and experience
* Proven experience operating as a Senior Product Manager within a high‑scale consumer product, such as eCommerce, travel, marketplaces, or content‑led platforms.
* Strong domain experience in search, discovery, personalisation, or recommendation systems, ideally within high‑traffic, high‑volume environments.
* Confidence working with complex, algorithm‑driven systems, including ranking, relevance, and data‑informed decisioning.
* High technical fluency, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and data scientists and understand trade‑offs around performance, scalability, and experimentation.
* A deep understanding of customer intent and behaviour, and how search experiences influence discovery, decision‑making, and conversion.
* Strong analytical capability, comfortable defining metrics, interpreting data, and using experiments (A/B tests, multivariate tests) to guide prioritisation and validate impact.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to influence across disciplines and seniority levels while keeping teams aligned around outcomes.
* Experience owning and delivering against OKRs, translating high‑level goals into clear, actionable product plans.
* A proactive, curious mindset with a bias for action, comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving problem spaces.
Ways of working
Our full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don’t have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that’s right for you. We have core working hours between 10am – 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work.
We also have hybrid working so we all work from home and from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. You’ll be in the office one day every two weeks, and you’re more than welcome to come in more if you’d like.
Our benefits
We offer a competitive benefits package, known as our Beach Perks, to all On the Beach colleagues.
* 25 days holiday plus your birthday off
* Discount on holidays, plus you will receive 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you’re away on your On the Beach package holiday
* Access to Learnerbly learning platform, plus workshops, courses and professional qualifications
* Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support
* Employee Assistance Programme and free access to counselling
* Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan
* Company Sick Pay scheme
* Regular wellbeing events
* Gym discount
* Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
* Death in Service cover
* Onsite subsidised coffee shop
* The Sandbox (our very own bar)
* Food and drink discounts across a number of venues in Manchester City Centre
* Regular social events
* Cycle to Work scheme
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