Staff Product Manager - Events

Job description

About Us Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we're on a mission to power real work, with real impact. We're trusted by more than 12,000 companies worldwide, including On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we're tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem https://www.perk.com/shadow-work-report. Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work. At Perk, we're driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel, fintech, and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you're excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we'd love you on the team. Visit www.perk.com http://www.perk.com to learn more. ABOUT THE ROLE - We're looking for a Staff or Principal Product Manager to own the strategy & direction of the Perk Events platform. - This is a role for someone who thrives where complexity meets ambition: deep customer research, multi-stakeholder environments, and the creative challenge of building a new category of B2B SaaS. You will operate with extreme autonomy & ownership and will own the outcomes of the product. - You'll work closely with a Squad Lead (engineering), designers, and ops/commercial stakeholders to define and execute our product strategy. You'll be the connective tissue between customer insight, business outcomes, and the squads building the product, the person who turns ambiguity into direction, and direction into shipped impact. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our Events product, including how it integrates tightly with the broader Perk products - Drive high velocity execution with a world class team of making bold, fast bets informed customer feedback, data, market research, and deep intuition for how AI can reshape how teams operate - Stakeholder management: Partner with our event support operations and supply teams to ensure we build a cohesive tech and service offering that is appealing both to our customers and suppliers. - Become an industry insider. Get familiar with the events industry (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) dynamics and supply chain, from supplier needs to event planner needs. - Own the product metrics, how these tie to key business results and reporting of these to senior leadership - Prototype rapidly using tools like Claude and Cursor to accelerate the product development lifecycle and fast-forward to production-ready products. - Stay deeply plugged into AI research, industry trends, and emergent applications, filtering signal from noise and applying it creatively to Perk products - Empower Your Team: Lead with a servant-leadership approach help stay focused, remove distractions, and foster creativity and collaboration WHAT YOU'LL NEED - Ability to work independently when defining the product vision/strategy, translating it into a clear, well-planned roadmap, and getting the input and buy-in from relevant stakeholders. - Fluency in data and how to make data-driven product decisions - Experience evaluating product decisions, prioritization trade-offs and translate them into a roadmap aligned with our business goals - Demonstrated ability to lead and influence small teams of engineers & designers toward a common goal - Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders and large cross-functional teams - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Passion for AI, shown through hands-on building, prototyping, or side projects, and staying current on research and tools. - Fluency with modern prototyping tools (e.g. Cursor, Bolt, Claude Code) and comfort with design/collaboration environments like Figma and Git. How We Work At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work. For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume. Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you. Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com http://perk.com or @externalperk.com http://externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security [at] perk .com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate. #LI-Hybrid