Breffni Horgan is Director of Product at the Hostelworld Group, the leading global hostel-booking platform. She joined the Hostelworld Group in 2010 and has held a number of roles over the past 8 years, including Head of Mobile & Head of Product & Design. She was promoted to the executive leadership team of the group as Director of Product in January 2018.
During her time at Hostelworld she has overseen the complete redevelopment of the group’s mobile platforms, growing the mobile business to 54% in 2017, helped deliver an NPS score of over 70% and received industry recognition from Apple and Google. She has managed the cross-platform product design of three rebrands (Hostelworld.com, Hostelbookers.com and Hostels.com) and she was a key member of the team which took the Hostelworld Group public at the end of 2015. Prior to joining Hostelworld she looked after new product development and managed the online products team at Telefonica O2, where she received global recognition for her work on the O2 community platform.
She has previous experience in roles within Ecommerce & Technology in Paddy Power PLC and eLearning organisation OutStart. She spent the earlier part of her career working at Apple, an organisation she credits with inspiring her to build great products & deliver exceptional customer experiences.
Over the past 9 years, she has also held the role of non-executive board director of ‘The Southern Star’, a local newspaper business based in West Cork, Ireland.
She has an M.A. in Interactive Media from the Dublin Institute of Technology and a B.A. from University College Cork. She hails from Skibbereen, Co. Cork.
