Director of Pricing & Portfolio Optimization
Director of Pricing & Portfolio Optimization
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Director of Pricing & Portfolio Optimization
About the role
Wander is looking for a Director of Pricing & Portfolio Optimization to build and lead a new business unit within our Marketing organization. This unit will be responsible for ensuring that every Wander home is competitively prices and as desirableand as profitableas possible. Youll lead our pricing team and build a system that continuously audits evaluates and improves the performance of every property in our portfolio.
This is a high-impact leadership role that blends data automation creativity and strategy. Youll own the bottom-up revenue layer of our demand generation strategymaximizing performance per listing to complement our top-down marketing campaigns.
Youll work at the intersection of pricing strategy machine intelligence and operational rigor to create systems that assess and improve desirability across hundreds of listings monthly ultimately helping guests say yes faster and more often.
What youll do
Lead the pricing team and define the pricing strategy across our growing portfolio of homes. Youll also oversee listing optimization dynamic pricing and guest confidence.
Design a scalable audit framework to evaluate listing desirabilitycovering images pricing amenities policies reviews and more.
Collaborate with a dedicated engineer to train AI models that continuously score and flag listings needing improvement.
Collaborate with listings and operations teams to drive amenity upgrades and implement content improvements portfolio-wide.
Oversee pricing strategy including competitive benchmarking including things like length-of-stay and last-minute discounts and policy friction audits (e.g. pet rules cleaning fees calendar access).
Develop tools and incentives for owners to opt into more competitive pricing in exchange for better visibility and demand.
Drive initiatives to increase trust and social proof including review sentiment monitoring and guest hesitation handling.
Work with engineering to automate as much of this pipeline as possiblefrom identifying gaps to triggering updates.
Own performance metrics at the listing level and portfolio level using AI-driven scoring and daily optimization loops.
The toolkit youll use
Internal & External Data market comps guest behavior funnel conversion data
AI & Automation develop systems that score audit and flag listings autonomously
Collaborative Ops cross-functional partnership with engineering operations marketing and design
Builder Mentality youll create internal products tools and dashboards from the ground up
Who youll work with
You (Director of Pricing & Portfolio Optimization) Business unit leader and cross-functional strategist overseeing the pricing team
Software Engineer Full-time engineering partner to build automation tools
Listing Team Deep collaboration on listing content and execution
Operations For amenity enhancements and policy alignment
Marketing & Product To influence demand-gen strategy and platform improvements
The role sits in Marketing and reports directly to the CMO
Requirements
Experience leading pricing strategy at scale in hospitality travel or real estate
Proven success in building internal tools systems or frameworks from scratch
Comfort working with AI models automation tools and data analysis
Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder communication
Obsessive eye for detail across visual copy pricing and product elements
Builder mindset with a bias for action and results
Bonus if you have
Experience at a marketplace ideally in a startup environment
Familiarity with pricing algorithms or review sentiment analysis
Join us
Wanders mission is to help people find their happy place. In this role youll be making each of those places even more desirablecrafting listings that dont just convert but inspire.
If youre excited to own revenue optimization at scale bring AI into the heart of listing strategy and build a system that blends data with storytellingwed love to meet you.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
