Hotels Marketplace & Fintech

While working with the growth team, I was asked to take on the design lead for a couple of teams working on the marketplace and fintech of Hotels. These teams were in the early stages of development. Together with my brilliant teammates, we iterated on key pain points to improve the marketplace's performance. At the same time, I led the effort to implement the first price-lock (or freeze) and refundable flows for booking hotels, strongly advocating for customer experience excellence.

We worked to improve the searching experience and marketplace for Hopper Hotels. We identified the key pain points in the user journey and iterated on them to improve the marketplace's performance. We added better filters and sorting options, and made the information display clearer.

During the pandemic, Hopper Hotels created a last-minute booking experience for travelers who wanted to get away quickly and make spontaneous decisions. We improved the user experience by streamlining the booking process and offering attractive deals.

I spent some time with the fintech team. We worked together to figure out which feature would be the most useful to add to the Hopper Hotels platform. After looking at user data and feedback, we decided that adding the first price-lock and refundable rooms would make a big difference in the customer experience. I then made sure these features were added well and helped make sure customers had a great experience while they used them.

We made it easier for customers to help themselves by creating tools like an FAQ section, a knowledge base with articles on common questions, and a chatbot. These tools helped reduce support requests and made it better for our customers to get help.

Special thanks:

Anwesha Bhattacharjee, Lexi Caron, Lionel Ferrandon. And all the Hotels engineering, product, support teams.