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# Senior Product Manager - Saving Engines at HRS

- **Company:** HRS
- **Location:** Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hrs/9e8fb6df-d95e-4eca-ae26-eb7fce1b1b2f

## Job description

## HRS AS A COMPANY

HRS is a global technology company revolutionizing the way enterprises manage lodging, meetings, and workforce travel through AI-driven, data-centric solutions. With over 50 years of innovation, HRS delivers value through its Lodging-as-a-Service (LaaS), Meeting-as-a-Service (MaaS), and Workforce-as-a-Service (WaaS) offerings, serving Fortune 500 enterprises, leading hotel chains, and mid-sized companies worldwide. By integrating cutting-edge technology across our Copilot and Connect platforms, HRS enables unmatched efficiencies and strategic outcomes for clients globally.

## BUSINESS UNIT

The Connect Search & Book domain powers HRS hotel content and services for corporate customers worldwide. At the core of Connect sits the Savings Engine — the transaction and rate intelligence backbone responsible for booking processing, offer computation, rate confirmation, and rebooking workflows. Its performance directly affects booking reliability, rate competitiveness, customer savings, and the end-to-end quality of the enterprise booking experience. Vietnam is HRS's largest and most strategic engineering hub for Connect, home to multiple high-performing product and engineering teams. The Savings Engine team is based here, with a mandate to modernize its technical foundation and establish an AI-native engineering model. This is a high-impact, business-critical product area — and we are hiring the PM to own it.

## POSITION

We are seeking a Product Manager to take full ownership of the Savings Engine product within HRS Connect Search & Book. You will report to the VP Product and be the single accountable PM for this product area — owning the roadmap, defining success metrics, driving continuous discovery, and working as a genuine peer to the Engineering Team Lead. This is not a maintenance role. Savings Engine is one of the most technically consequential product areas in Connect, and the bar for product ownership here is high. We are looking for a PM who brings structure, outcome discipline, and genuine platform product thinking to a business-critical infrastructure product — and who is energized by working on something customers never see but always feel.

## CHALLENGE

As Product Manager for Connect Savings Engine, you will:

- Own the product vision, roadmap, and prioritization for the Savings Engine — Booking Engine, Offer Engine, Reservation Engine, Multisource (Offer Aggregator), and Rebooking
- Work in a lean Product Duo model alongside the Engineering Team Lead, with shared accountability for outcomes — not a handoff-and-execute dynamic
- Apply Working Backwards thinking in every initiative: start from the desired customer and business outcome, define the right problem precisely, and validate assumptions before committing to solutions
- Define and track success metrics for every product initiative — connecting platform reliability, rate quality, and savings delivery to measurable business outcomes
- Drive structured discovery with internal stakeholders, commercial teams, and enterprise customers to understand where the product is falling short and what improvements will create the most value
- Make responsible trade-off decisions on modernization investment vs. new capability development — sequencing the roadmap with clear business case reasoning per phase
- Be a credible product peer to the ETL: engage on architecture trade-offs, participate in technical discovery, and hold the line on what matters most for customers and the business
- Identify where AI can create measurable product value in the booking and rate infrastructure — anomaly detection, predictive reliability monitoring, rate optimization — and frame these as testable product bets
- Use AI tools as the default across your PM workflow: discovery synthesis, PRD drafting, competitive analysis, stakeholder communication, and roadmap prioritization
- Translate deeply technical platform outcomes into a clear business narrative for VP Product, commercial stakeholders, and enterprise clients
- Absorb a structured handover from the outgoing PM and establish independent product ownership quickly — the team cannot afford a long stabilization period

FOR THIS EXCITING MISSION YOU ARE EQUIPPED WITH... Product Experience

- 4+ years of Product Management experience, ideally in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, fintech, or e-commerce platform products
- Demonstrated experience owning a backend or platform product — comfortable defining success for a product with no user interface, where outcomes are measured in reliability, throughput, and business metrics
- Strong command of modern PM craft: outcome ownership, Working Backwards methodology, and continuous discovery — not a feature-factory mindset
- Metric-driven approach: able to define and track success metrics for platform products and make prioritization decisions grounded in data
- Experience managing a product roadmap that balances modernization investment, reliability improvement, and new capability development

Technical Fluency

- Comfortable engaging with engineers on architecture trade-offs — API design, distributed systems concepts, latency vs. throughput, legacy modernization sequencing — without needing to be an engineer
- Able to ask the right questions, challenge decisions from a product and customer outcome perspective, and understand the dependency and risk implications of technical roadmap decisions
- Experience working on products built on transaction processing, booking or payment infrastructure, pricing engines, or equivalent high-throughput backend systems is a strong plus

AI Fluency

- Active, demonstrated use of AI tools in your own PM workflow — with concrete examples of quality and productivity improvement
- Practical understanding of where AI can improve backend platform products and the ability to frame AI opportunities as product bets with measurable outcomes
- Awareness of the limits and risks of AI in transaction-critical systems — responsible judgment on feasibility, quality control, and reliability trade-offs

Domain & Communication

- Experience building B2B or enterprise products with enterprise constraints — data privacy, compliance, security, procurement cycles
- Excellent written and verbal English — able to engage credibly with engineering, commercial stakeholders, and senior leadership
- Experience in distributed, cross-cultural teams
- Corporate travel or booking platform experience is a plus, not a requirement

## PERSPECTIVE

- Technically credible, not technically dependent — earns engineering trust through good questions and clear thinking, not through authority or deference
- Outcome ownership under pressure — present and accountable when things go wrong; connects operational decisions to business outcomes and holds the line on what matters most
- Comfortable with invisible products — genuinely motivated by platform outcomes: reliability, savings delivery, rate quality; does not need a consumer-facing product to feel engaged
- High ownership in a transition context — steps into a team in active transformation and sees it as an opportunity to shape something from the ground up
- Collaborative Duo peer — makes the team stronger through genuine engagement on trade-offs and shared accountability for outcomes

## PERSPECTIVE ON GROWTH

Access to a global network of a globally united and mutually responsible "Tribe of Intrapreneurs" passionately dedicated to renewing the travel industry and reinventing the ways businesses stay, work, and pay. Our entrepreneurial-driven environment of full ownership and execution focus offers you the playground to contribute to a greater mission, while growing personally and professionally throughout this unique journey. You will continuously learn from a radical culture of retrospectives and continuous improvement — and actively contribute to making business life better, smarter, and more sustainable.

## About HRS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HRS is a global technology platform that reimagines corporate lodging and meetings management through an AI-powered end-to-end SaaS solution.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped, owned by CEO Tobias Ragge)
- **Headquarters**: Cologne, Germany
- **Founded**: 1972
- **Founders**: Founded as a regional reservation service; current CEO and owner is Tobias Ragge

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Corporate travel management (lodging and meetings), Fintech (payment solutions), Sustainability tech (Green Stay Initiative)
- **Target Customers**: B2B — Enterprise (Fortune 500), SMBs, and business travelers
- **Mission/Purpose**: "To reinvent the way business travelers can STAY, WORK and PAY" by challenging legacy structures and over-engineered ecosystems.

## Products & Services
- **[HRS Connect](https://corporate.hrs.com/)**: An all-in-one booking and procurement platform for lodging (transient, groups, longstay) and meetings. It connects to GDS, non-GDS, OTA, and direct inventory, automates rate filtering, rebooking, payment, and invoicing.
- **[HRS Copilot](https://corporate.hrs.com/)**: A patent-pending AI-powered assistant that provides real-time, data-driven recommendations to optimize savings, compliance, traveler satisfaction, and carbon emissions. Integrates with existing tech stacks and expense systems.
- **[HRS Green Stay](https://corporate.hrs.com/)**: An ISO 14067-certified initiative that provides science-based property-level data on water, waste, and energy consumption, enabling companies to report, reduce, and remove CO₂ emissions from hotel stays. HRS is a Climate Pledge signatory.
- **[HRS Payment Solutions](https://corporate.hrs.com/)**: Automated payment and invoicing tools that include VAT reclaim, line-item invoice data, and credit card rebate optimization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (privately held by CEO)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue not disclosed; the company serves **35% of Fortune 500 companies** [corporate.hrs.com](https://corporate.hrs.com/).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: HRS is privately owned. It partners with 200+ solutions (TMCs, OBTs, expense and payment systems). Strategic equity investment in Itelya for integrated payment solutions.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Recognized among **Germany’s TOP 100 Most Innovative Companies** [corporate.hrs.com](https://corporate.hrs.com/about).
    - Member of the **Global Sustainable Tourism Council**.
    - **EcoVadis Bronze Medal** (top 35% globally) for sustainability management.
    - Operates in **30 markets** globally including London, Milan, Mumbai, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, and Sydney [jobs.hrs.com](https://jobs.hrs.com/content/Our-history/?locale=en_US).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data-First Moat**: Their patented rate filter, automated rebooking, and Copilot AI generate unique, actionable data that creates lock-in with enterprise clients.
- **End-to-End Automation**: Unlike traditional TMCs, HRS offers a fully automated process from procurement to payment and reclaim, reducing manual work and delivering VAT rebates.
- **Sustainability Standard-Setting**: The Green Stay Initiative is a first-of-its-kind, science-based, ISO-certified tool that directly ties sustainability data into procurement decisions.
- **50-Year Heritage + Startup Agility**: Described as a "50-year-old start-up," they combine the stability of a mature company with the innovation culture of a tech firm.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-First Transformation**: Deepening the role of Copilot to move from a booking tool to a strategic decision-making assistant for travel and procurement managers.
- **Fintech Expansion**: Integrating payment and invoicing deeper into the platform to create a unified "stay, work, pay" experience (e.g., investment in Itelya).
- **Net-Zero Leadership**: Pledging net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 (a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement) and scaling the Green Stay initiative globally.
- **Platform Convergence**: Unifying lodging, meetings, and longstay under a single, seamless interface to increase adoption and spend visibility.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "tribe of Intrapreneurs" with a focus on entrepreneurship, passion, enthusiasm, and teaming. The CEO Tobias Ragge says: "Be a missionary, work hard, have fun, and make history" [jobs.hrs.com](https://jobs.hrs.com/content/Culture/?locale=en_US).
- **Diversity**: Over **850 employees** representing **57 nationalities**, with a strong emphasis on DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) [jobs.hrs.com](https://jobs.hrs.com/content/Culture/?locale=en_US).
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated as fully remote. The company operates from 30+ global markets (Cologne HQ, London, New York, San Francisco, etc.), suggesting a hybrid or in-office collaborative environment depending on role.
- **Perks & Engineering Culture**:
    - Ranked among Germany’s TOP 100 most innovative companies, indicating strong R&D and engineering investment.
    - Culture of "learning from failure and scaling through operational excellence."
    - Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI, fintech, and sustainability solutions at a global scale.
    - Young, agile environment with a 50-year history of stability.

## Sources
1. [corporate.hrs.com](https://corporate.hrs.com/) – Official corporate site (products, mission, partners)
2. [corporate.hrs.com/about](https://corporate.hrs.com/about) – About page (history, leadership, sustainability, DEI)
3. [jobs.hrs.com](https://jobs.hrs.com/content/Culture/?locale=en_US) – Culture and careers page
4. [jobs.hrs.com](https://jobs.hrs.com/content/Our-history/?locale=en_US) – History & team success factors
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hrs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hrs) – Official careers portal (Ashby)

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