Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and 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 our Brands.
As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.
Role description
This Senior Product Manager role defines and builds the B2B availability streaming API to modernize partner data exchange. Success is the broad adoption of this reliable, high-speed data platform by global partners. The product provides partners a competitive advantage, driving scalable growth across the company's ecosystem.
This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
- Defines and steers the product vision and strategy for the availability streaming solution, based on company-wide objectives and market analysis, to establish a market-leading, real-time data platform.
- Manages the product roadmap and development backlog for the engineering team, following agile principles and data-driven prioritization, to ensure the timely delivery of features that solve partner problems.
- Translates complex business and partner needs into actionable specifications for the engineering team, to facilitate efficient and accurate product development.
- Collaborates continuously with B2B partners and internal stakeholders, through structured reporting and feedback sessions, to ensure strategic alignment and champion the product's value.
- Defines and analyzes key performance indicators for the platform's health and adoption, in accordance with the department's analytics framework, to measure business impact and inform future priorities.
- Formulates go-to-market plans for new features and technical updates, in coordination with commercial and technical teams, to drive smooth partner adoption and clearly communicate value.
Role Qualifications and Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 6 years of experience as a (technology) Product Manager or similar role with some focus on developing high-scale services and/or API platforms for product teams.
- Able to understand complex technical problems and translate these into easy-to-understand language for non-tech stakeholders.
- Experience with APIs, managing the full product lifecycle from ideation and design to documentation, versioning, and developer support.
- Passion for creating an exceptional Developer Experience (DX); you know that great documentation is as important as the API itself.
- Proven ability to engage in technical conversations with engineers and enterprise partners, translating complex requirements into a clear and actionable backlog.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent collaboration and influencing skills.
- Strong affinity with technology; previous hands-on experience as an engineer, or equivalent technical role, is highly desirable.
- An analytical orientation and strong problem-solving skills demonstrated by the ability to structure issues and analyze alternative solutions.
- Able to understand and formulate meaningful business metrics.
- Fluent in the English language both spoken and written.
Benefits & Perks
- 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
- Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users
Booking Holdings 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, color, 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.
