Skyscanner seeks temporary CEO…
Skyscanner is recruiting for a new CEO to take over the company – just for one day.
To mark reaching 40 million users a month, the travel search company is giving its founder and CEO Gareth Williams the chance to take a ‘well-earned break’.
Instead, it is inviting candidates to apply for his role and run the global company for one day only, and will pay them £2,500 for their work.
The temporary CEO will tour the Edinburgh head office, meet the various teams and will be expected to cover a range of key duties.
Skyscanner says these will include:
– Providing insight into Skyscanner’s flights, hotels and car hire products
– Testing changes to the site and apps
– Being interviewed by media
– Reviewing the company strategy
– Drawing weird doodles.
The job is open to anyone who is eligible to work in the UK, regardless of experience, but they must have a passion for travel.
To apply, candidates need to click here and sell themselves in 100 words.
The deadline for applications is 24 August.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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