Who are we looking for?
Choice Hotels, one of the world’s largest lodging franchisors, has an exciting new opportunity as our Sr. Digital Product Manager, Mobile Apps on the Digital Commerce team. You will play a key role in defining feature sets and planning product increments that make our guest facing iOS and Android mobile app capabilities best-in-class. Choice Hotels’ mobile apps are a critical shopping, booking, and engagement channel for our most loyal Guests. They are where Guests can easily book their next trip, engage with our loyalty program, and help manage their travel.
As a Sr. Product Manager within the Digital Commerce team at Choice Hotels International, you will help evolve our Guest-facing desktop, mobile web, and app experiences by driving the forward-looking product vision for our iOS and Android product verticals. You will define robust sets of features that are part of larger guest capabilities by working with counterparts in engineering, delivery, and UX to define epic-level features, create high-level designs, validate those ideas with user research, and get capacity level planning. The output of their efforts will be picked up by a Digital Product Manager to work within their scrum teams to write user stories and bring the final feature or enhancement to life.
Are you an experienced product manager with a passion for unlocking mobile app guest capabilities? We invite you to apply today for our Sr. Digital Product Manager, Mobile Apps role today and #MakeItYourChoice.
Your Responsibilities
- Work closely with digital product leadership, digital product managers and product analysts to define feature sets and support effective prioritization to focus the team’s efforts on the highest-impact opportunities.
- Lead cross-functional meetings to refine highest impact projects to be pursued by the team, including work to define features to be delivered and reduce risk.
- Clear roadblocks and peripheral tasks to allow product owners to focus on the delivering value in sprints.
- Create an aligned, motivated, and effective vision for feature-sets; deliver value to users and the business.
- Work with other members of the product team to evangelize, educate and coach others on product management principles and methods.
- Creatively identify product development opportunities which connect unmet user needs with the company’s strategic objectives.
- Champion for product vision and strategy with design, engineering, business units, and executive leadership.
Your Experience, Skills & Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree required with major concentrated in technology or business preferred.
- 3 to 5 years' experience as a product manager, product owner, business analyst, or similar role within an ecommerce organization.
- Track record of successfully identifying market and product opportunities using qualitative and quantitative approaches to research and analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to and participate in strategic decision-making, product roadmaps, prioritization tradeoffs and risk mitigation.
- Experience with Agile Scrum methodologies and associated tools (Rally, Jira, Confluence) preferred.
- Experience working collaboratively with colleagues in user research, design, engineering, finance, sales, and marketing.
- Demonstrates key competencies to include Planning & Aligning, Highly Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and a Strategic Mindset.
Your Team
This is an individual contributor role that will report to the Senior Director, Product Management. You will have 2peer teammates and collaborate with cross functional departments on a regular basis.
Your Work Location
As our Sr. Digital Product Manager, Mobile Apps, you will be based in our beautiful, state-of-the-art technology hub in Scottsdale, AZ. In October 2021, Choice opened a newly constructed world class technology center.
Salary Range
The salary range for this position is $130,000 to $138,000 annually. In addition to the annual salary, this role is eligible for an annual bonus based on the terms of Choice's Management Incentive Plan (MIP)
The pay range listed is for this position and is what Choice Hotels reasonably expects to pay. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
Choice prioritizes our associate wellbeing by offering a comprehensive benefits program that is both competitive and flexible to help you achieve your wellbeing goals - here are just a few:
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Leave and paid time-off for holidays, vacation, personal, family, volunteer, sick, jury duty, bereavement, military, and religious observance
- Financial benefits for retirement and health savings
- Employee recognition programs
- Discounts at Choice hotels worldwide
About Choice
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With nearly 7,500 hotels, representing nearly 630,000 rooms, in 46 countries and territories, with a range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upper upscale, upper mid-scale, midscale, extended-stay, and economy segments. We’re the hotel company for those who choose to bet on themselves – the underdog, the dreamer, the entrepreneur – because that’s who we are, too.
At Choice, we are united by the simple belief that tomorrow will be even better than today – for associates, our company, and our franchisees. At our worldwide corporate headquarters in North Bethesda, MD and St. Louis Park, MN as well as our technology center in Scottsdale, AZ, and through our associates around the globe, every voice is heard, and every idea is listened to, no matter what area of the company they come from. We are united in supporting the entrepreneurial dreams of our more than 18,000 franchise owners, which propels us forward – giving our work at Choice a purpose larger than our business.
About Choice Hotels Financial Performance
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*** PLEASE NOTE: This role is not eligible for sponsorship ***
Ability to model Choice’s Cultural Values: Welcome and Respect Everyone, Be Bold, Be Quick, Listen, Be Curious and Show Integrity.
Top Skills
What We Do
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the world’s largest and most successful lodging franchisors. On August 11, 2022, Choice acquired Radisson Hotels Americas, adding nine brands and approximately 67,000 rooms to its portfolio in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. With 22 brands, Choice Hotels has more than 7,500 hotels and nearly 650,000 rooms in 46 countries and territories as of August 11, 2022. The Choice® family of hotel brands provides business and leisure travelers with a broad range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upper upscale, upper mid-scale, midscale, extended-stay, and economy segments. At our worldwide corporate headquarters in the Washington metropolitan area (North Bethesda, MD), our IT center in Scottsdale, AZ, and St. Louis Park (MN), and through our associates across the globe, we keep those hotels humming by serving as a champion for our franchisees. When you #MakeItYourChoice, you will have the environment, the tools, and the momentum to drive your career and organizational success
