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Company Name: Booking
Booking.com is one of the world’s largest and most successful e-commerce services, and requires a world class infrastructure platform for its products and services.
As a Group Product Manager for our Application Data Services department you’re responsible for providing world class database and streaming solutions, both on-premise and on public cloud, to our infrastructure and product development teams. For our Data Services you will ensure secure, reliable and scalable transport and storage of data to our business and infrastructure services. Our data services currently cover technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch and we plan to expand this with complementary cloud database technologies.
Our vision is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. Wherever our customers go and whatever they do, they book it with us. With over 1.5 million room nights booked every day in our 1.5 million + accommodations worldwide, our daily mission is to make travel, experience and exploration accessible for everyone, everywhere.
- responsible
- You take full end to end responsibility for your product.
- Develop and own the long-term product vision and inspire your teams and Product Managers to achieve the vision by sharing your message effectively.
- Identify platform opportunities and establish a strategy and roadmap to make the vision a reality.
- Support Product Managers in translating customer insights, company direction, industry developments into teams’ long- and short term priorities.
- Work closely with key stakeholders to understand user needs with data, identify gaps in our offerings and develop product requirements.
- Because your opinion is data-driven, you will define key business and success metrics, track them, and improve upon them.
- Benchmark our platform infrastructure against industry standards and competitors for cost, innovation, and operational excellence.
- Drive the customer experience, continually raising the bar on quality, functionality and usability.
- Mentor the professional development of each direct report through personal and performance management and coaching.
B.skilled
- 6+ years of experience in a Product Management, Engineering or Technology Strategy role.
- Experience with managing and coaching teams of Product Managers as direct reports.
- Strong knowledge of cloud technologies is a big plus.
- Excellent communication skills - Being able to both communicate effectively both strategic vision and specific details to various stakeholders, from senior leadership to individual project members. Being able to write clear and concise product requirements, status updates and product results.
- Strong analytical skills - Able to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend effective action plans to resolve issues.
- Strong organisational and project management skills - Someone with responsibility to ensure multiple projects are completed in an appropriate and timely manner.
- Experience with stakeholder management (finance, budgeting, team management, recruitment, external customers).
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills are essential.
B.Offered
- Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
- Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
- Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
- Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
- Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
- Technical, behavioural and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
- Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com
Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.
Pre-Employment Screening:
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
