Technical Product Manager - Marketplace

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

We’re a truly global e-commerce company, with business operations in nearly every country and city on the planet. And we want to make it easy for everyone, anywhere in the world, to pay for their travel or do business with our platform - whenever and however it’s convenient for them.

Frontend foundations is a track within Booking.com’s Marketplace organization focusing on solving for Traveler needs across all platforms. Our vision is to make booking.com the most reliable and engaging way to be a traveler. We are seeking a Product manager to join our track in the Foundations department.

In Foundations, we’re focussing on empowering teams at booking to achieve this vision.

The key areas of our focus are: Building solutions that simplify access to common systems & content management to enable reusability, efficiency and compliance. Having a clear ownership and build common standards and capabilities to realize a scalable presentation layer Provide responsive & high quality experiences to our travelers powered by reliable high quality infrastructure by bringing visibility, benchmarking and actionability to performance & quality measurement on the web.

Our aim is to create modern and relevant moments for our customers from the look to stay journey, scalably. We do this by investing in capabilities such as smart positioning, smart content, rich reusable connected UX patterns married with a centralized distribution system that can enable our stakeholders to create personalized experiences at scale. This ensures our customers see and interact with a website/app that looks consistent, is on brand, understands our user’s context and adapts to their actions and needs in real time.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Refine and own the long-term vision and strategy of the team and its products.

• Define and monitor critical metrics for your products.

• Empower and collaborate with your cross-functional team to unlock their full potential and maximize their impact.

• Work with your team on identifying and understanding the needs of your users and the business.

• Collaborate and align with your engineering counterpart on the technical roadmap.

• Prioritize the team backlog to better address the needs of your users and the business.

• Liaise with stakeholders across the organization to ensure good performance of our products.

• Work closely with the engineering team to build and operate the product.

• Engage other product managers within the department and Booking.com to define development priorities for the product.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a Product Manager role (a technical and data focus is a plus)

• Ability to communicate effectively with technical stakeholders (Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists) as well as with the users of the platform.

• Team player with a bottom-up ideation process. Ability to see the big picture, without losing sight of the product details.

• An analytical orientation and strong problem-solving skills demonstrated by the ability to structure issues and analyze alternative solutions.

• Proven experience understanding and formulating meaningful business metrics.

• Familiarity with the challenges and best practices for scaling infrastructure in a fast-paced environment.

• Familiarity with frontend frameworks, Domain Driven Design is a plus.

• Solution oriented and result driven

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

EEO Statement:

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO

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.