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Jorge Velasco

Product Leader, Mentor and Consultant.

€289/day
London, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Jorge

Management consultant and product leader, leading multi-million digital transformation programs for airlines in Europe, Americas and APAC. Ten years’ product management experience, including APIs and voice AI start-ups in London, and fintech/payment solutions in Mexico. UK Global Talent Visa (Exceptional Talent) and Cambridge MBA.
  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Portuguese

    Conversational

Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Travel in Motion
    Airline Retailing Consultant
    November 2024 - Today (1 year and 7 months)
    London, United Kingdom
    Individual contributor and subject matter expert on Offer and Order Transformation strategies.

    Key achievements
    - Built a bespoke five-year digital transformation business case for a large European carrier, approved by board.
    - Led definition of seven Proof of Concepts for a large APAC carrier moving towards modular Offer and Order system
    - Managed two multi-million-USD RFPs, securing competitive and future-ready vendor agreements
    - Delivered NDC strategies for three airline customers highlighting business, tech, contracting and people impact
    Positioning strategy IT Architecture Product management
  • Snowfall Travel
    Product Manager
    October 2023 - November 2024 (1 year and 1 month)
    London, United Kingdom
    Leading a team of 7 engineers developing the core multi-vertical search engine and search, book and cancel API

    Key achievements
    - Implemented Service Design Blueprints to unify process and two tech stacks under a single consumer-facing API
    - Championed API design and response normalisation for flights and train verticals; launched beta in 3 months
    - Defined and owned 3rd party train content strategy, partner relationship, commercial model and payment terms
    - optimised rail search engine to perform API customer searches across 50 train operators in Europe 50% faster
    - Ramped up the largest B2B2C partnership of the company reaching 800 travel agencies over 4 countries
  • Duffel
    Product Manager
    September 2022 - September 2023 (1 year)
    London, United Kingdom
    Managed 4-person engineering team, driving product-market fit for the Flights API in B2B corporate travel

    Key achievements
    - Managed priorities for an 800-million-annual-search Flights Search Engine connecting 32 NDCs and GDS
    - Directed test-and-learn strategy for NDC missing flights; improved coverage from 80% to 95% for 300+ airlines
    - Earned trust of 4 senior engineers through an assumption-led roadmap; achieved product-market-fit in 6 months
    - Prototyped a long polling endpoint for instant search results, secured two flagship corporate travel customers
    - Improved clarity on ticket conditions for 200 airlines, lowering offers with no change/cancel info from 9% to 2%

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Education

  • Master of Business Administration
    Judge Business School, University of Cambridge Cambridge
    2022
    Master of Business Administration
  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
    2015
    Bachelor's Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering

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