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 five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.
Role description
The TPM Manager is responsible for ensuring the team's success by driving and overseeing program deliverables, as well as leading the team in completing initiatives and objectives within the team's scope, while also contributing to them individually.
The role functions as a bidirectional translation layer between the business and technical fields, ensuring alignment between business expectations and technical feasibility. We lead programs involving technical solutions to business problems involving multiple, cross-functional product teams by owning the answers to “When” and “Who”. We define clear scope and realistic delivery plans, manage change and risk, and measure progress against clearly-defined success metrics.
This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
Manage & Mentor: Lead a team of Technical Program Managers, providing coaching, regular feedback, and career development planning
Performance Management: Set clear goals, conduct performance reviews, and address underperformance constructively
Hiring & Onboarding: Drive the recruitment process for new TPMs and ensure successful onboarding and integration into the team
Resource Planning: Allocate TPM resources effectively across different initiatives to balance workload and business priorities
Portfolio Management: Oversee a portfolio of technical programs, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and engineering roadmaps
Process Excellence: Define and improve TPM standards, frameworks, and best practices (e.g., Agile, planning, risk management) to boost team efficiency
Stakeholder Management: Act as a point of escalation for complex dependencies and cross-functional blockers; build strong relationships with Engineering Directors and Product leaders
Technical Competence: Engage in technical architectural discussions to ensure program feasibility and help the team make trade-off decisions
Role Qualifications and Requirements
Bachelor's Degree
5 to 8 years of relevant experience
A proven track record of leading teams and a visionary strategy to deliver global, company-wide platform services at enterprise large scale
Previous experience delivering technical programs is required
Data driven and results-oriented with strong analytical and quantitative skills
Delivery Management
Process Management
Operational Excellence
Communication (written & verbal)
Collaboration, Stakeholder Management
Incident Management
Risk Management
Problem Management
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.
