Description

When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! Our leading metasearch engine is super fast and constantly optimized – enabling millions of travelers to compare hotel prices from hundreds of booking sites and find great deals in just a few clicks. We use cutting-edge technology, real-time auction, and machine learning techniques with petabytes of data to create an experience – time and money saved! In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn everyday, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. At trivago you will find those who aren’t afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us!

We are looking for an ambitious SEO Product Manager with experience in technical organic search improvements that wants to manage a talented cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and data analysts in Düsseldorf. Our ideal candidate possesses a proactive mindset, test-and-learn mentality, and thrives in a collaborative environment.

In this role you will drive onsite SEO optimization and feature development, performance monitoring and contribute to an end-to-end SEO strategy – for the 55 platform hotel metasearch product. Up for the challenge? Then read further and apply today!

  • Be responsible for our SEO strategy, including keyword monitoring, URL structure, and SEO performance optimization
  • Drive product management activities: prioritization with team and stakeholders, requirements gathering, roadmap planning, build test plans for experiments, facilitate team ceremonies
  • Organize a highly skilled cross functional team of software engineers, designers and data analysts – and together discover and test solutions to complex hypothesis and data driven problems that have high value to trivago
  • Work with the team to understand complexity of work, technical or specific details and what trade-offs can be made in terms of value, complexity and time
  • Break complex technical projects into well-sequenced deliverables
  • Stay up-to-date on SEO trends, algorithm changes, and best practices

  • Minimum 2-3 years direct SEO experience, specializing in digital businesses, ideally in travel
  • Previous experience as a Product Manager
  • Proficiency in technical SEO practices, analytics tools, and web technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript)
  • Skilled in identifying strategic SEO opportunities and leveraging data to achieve business objectives
  • Capable of tackling new projects with high uncertainty, providing structured approaches
  • Strong communication skills, including leading discussions with external providers, and collaborating across teams
  • Fluency in English (our company language)

Stand out with:

  • Experience with different testing methodologies
  • Prior experience driving SEO projects within the travel industry
  • Basic UI/UX knowledge and prototyping tools such as Figma
  • Knowledge of Agile / Scrum Methodologies

Worried about missing a few requirements? Still apply, and express your motivation as you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

As you grow, so do we.

This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Likeminded, and provide workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and access to a fully-equipped campus library.

Moving to join us?

No problem. You can count on the visa support from our talent support team, a relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, regular team and company-wide events to build experiences together.

Life happens.

We offer self-determined vacation (with a minimum of 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, 2 WFH days weekly, the chance to work remotely for 20 days abroad, free access to the Heynanny platform for personalized nanny assistance, and an on-campus kids room.

Enjoy your office days.

Use your daily canteen budget to share lunch with colleagues in our canteen, help yourself to complimentary snacks and drinks in our kitchens, stay healthy with our on-site gym and sports classes, and enjoy the comfort of ergonomic desks and focused work areas.