Vice President of Product Development

TravelClick provides innovative solutions for hotels around the globe that increase revenue, reduce cost, and improve performance. Our suite of solutions supports our clients with travel marketing and reservations management tools, as well as comprehensive business intelligence. TravelClick has a worldwide on-the-ground presence that enables us to maintain a deep understanding of local markets in the context of the global hospitality industry.

* Full responsibility for building, maintaining and supporting the product * Responsible for the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning (primarily roadmap definition, and growth strategies) to tactical activities such as requirements definition and execution * Lead the team of Product Managers * Lead cross functional team including customer, partners, engineering, product, and operations, to deliver against required product growth milestones and deliverables * Actively participate in reviewing and authoring business analysis and functional specifications * Actively cultivate a collaborative, high-performance environment to grow the team’s development capabilities * Resolve tactical issues to ensure effective and efficient project management and product development processes * Maintain high level of understanding of common support issues and stay current on select product stability and critical issues * Maintain expert level of knowledge on TravelClick products to leverage in creation of new platform * Drive Product Development process during development cycle, including: * Client meetings to define business requirements and evaluation of system usage * Define requirements to convert a hospitality system into new platform * Define requirements for new enhancements * Work closely with development on design and usability of design * Work closely with testing department on test cases review to insure business cases are covered during quality control process * Communicate product strategy to executive team

**Desired Skills and Experience** * 5-10 years experience in Product Management, Product Development, PMO for either a Central Reservation System * Exceptional communication and leadership skills and proven ability to inspire and lead across cross-functional teams. **Education** * Bachelor’s degree required. MBA is a plus, but not required.