About Booking.com
At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
About The Role
As a
Senior Product Manager in the Segments Demand (Discoverability & Conversion track) you will strengthen our team of product leaders. You and your team will:
- Drive awareness & consideration for all of our traveler segments by working closely with our Marketing Business Unit
- Own the look-to-book funnel on our web platforms for the Home segment
- Provide guidance to other teams across the department working on our smaller segments (e.g. pet travel)
In addition you’ll closely work with two Apps Guest Experience teams, and collectively contribute to the company's strategic priorities and grow Homes’ share to the accommodations business.
This is a unique opportunity where you’ll get the chance to lead a horizontal scope : collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with Segment traveller needs while driving the strategy and execution of your defined product roadmap. Depending on the customer problem to solve, your team will join forces with Marketing, Search (ABU + Marketplace), Intent Discovery, Data and Machine Learning (TLV), US and Strategy - giving you the opportunity to maximize impact by joining the dots across the entire traveller journey.
This role provides high visibility and the opportunity to work in a fast-paced ever changing environment - while influencing key business metrics such as: Active Home users, Home ABRN.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Define and own the product vision and strategy, inspiring teams and colleagues to achieve it by effectively evangelizing the message.
- Lead the creation and delivery of a comprehensive product roadmap that prioritizes initiatives based on impact and strategic value. Measure and report the team’s progress and impact to the business.
- Regularly communicate product performance to senior stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships and establish an engagement and operating model with key stakeholders both within and outside the department. Solicit feedback and advocate for the needs of Segment travellers assertively.
- Comfortably operate in ambiguous situations, contribute to pivot or persevere decisions, and willing to take big and bold steps to deliver on an ambitious roadmap.
- Translate market trends, customer feedback, and internal data insights into actionable plans for growth and innovation.
Role Qualifications And Requirements
- Proven experience in building customer centric products as a Senior Product Manager, with preferably some experience in (performance) marketing
- Excellent communication, motivator, and influencing skills with senior management. Experience in writing clear and concise product requirements, status updates and product results.
- Demonstrated experience identifying & navigating through complex stakeholder management scenarios across different business units
- Strong problem-solving skills demonstrated by the ability to structure issues and propose alternative solutions while maintaining a protagonist mindset
- Ability to work closely with UX talents, continually raising the bar on quality, functionality and scalability. Able to balance product and tech deliverables.
- Bias to customer centric solutions with a demonstrated ability to develop experimentation strategies that measure short and long term success
- Fluency in articulating product vision & strategy with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences.
Benefits & Perks
- Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe with full relocation support for you and your family (if the case) to move
- 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, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
- Performance-based company that offers 29 vacation days, career advancement, and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential
- Discount on Booking.com accommodations with the “Booking Deal” including other perks and benefits
- 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
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