Christopher Kent

Head of Product | AI-Enablement | Product Strategy & Operating Models | Marketplaces, Travel, Loyalty

Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

About

Senior product leader with 20+ years of experience across travel, loyalty, marketplaces, ticketing, and hospitality SaaS. I help organisations improve focus, strengthen product operating models, and turn strategy into measurable business outcomes. My experience spans product strategy, discovery, prioritisation, roadmap governance, and delivery transformation, with a strong focus on helping teams work on the initiatives most likely to move customer, product, and commercial metrics. Most recently, at StubHub International, I stepped into leadership of the product organisation and helped sustain output through significant organisational change. I built and deployed a production AI product coach grounded in outcome-led product operating models, reducing initiative shaping time from weeks to hours and creating more capacity to focus on high-impact opportunities. I also led a root-cause analysis of a design system modernisation initiative, using contextualised AI to unlock major efficiency gains and create a model now being extended across the wider Product and Technology organisation. Earlier in my career, I led product and delivery work across hospitality distribution at Shiji, shared services and platform transformation at Mad Collective, airline loyalty platforms at Avios, and global product management at Pearson VUE. Across those roles, I have worked at the intersection of customer value, commercial impact, and technical execution. Areas I work across include: • Product strategy and operating models • Product discovery and experimentation • Portfolio prioritisation and roadmap governance • AI-enabled product practices • Travel technology, loyalty, and marketplaces • Cross-functional leadership and organisational effectiveness I’m particularly interested in roles where product leadership, operating model improvement, AI enablement, and measurable business outcomes come together.

Experience

  • Head of Product at StubHub International
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Senior Product Manager at Shiji Distribution Solutions
    Dec 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Product Director Shared Services at Mad Collective
    May 2018 - Apr 2022 · 4 yrs

    Led product and delivery across shared services and platform domains, driving organisational transformation and delivery performance. • Led 4 squads, around 25 people, across billing, platform, and internal tooling domains. • Increased delivery performance by 35% through dependency alignment and roadmap governance. • Introduced hybrid delivery frameworks that reduced rework and improved predictability. • Built a cross-functional delivery hub and mentored Product Owners in discovery, prioritisation, and evidence-led planning, strengthening product capability across the organisation.

  • Program Manager | Senior Project Manager at Avios Group Limited
    Jul 2011 - Apr 2018 · 6 yrs 10 mos

    Led £10m+ cross-company programmes across airline loyalty platforms for British Airways, Iberia, and Avios. • Delivered a £10m transformation programme unifying loyalty propositions across British Airways, Iberia, and Avios, enabling multi-million-pound annual benefits and a stronger cross-brand experience. • Delivered Partner Hub APIs, enabling faster onboarding and new revenue streams. • Launched flight discovery and pricing enhancements, increasing engagement by 15%. • Managed complex multi-party delivery across BA, Iberia, Vueling, and Avios stakeholders.

  • Managing Director at Plan Digital Ltd
    Jun 2011 - Jun 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Founded own consultancy. I contracted with Avios Group to provide project management and product delivery services.