**About Us: **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 following 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 can empower everyone to experience the world.
**Role Description: **
This role is based in Amsterdam and is a 7-month fixed-term contract.
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the Connected Trip - Trip Planning Mission for a high-visibility, 8-month project. The candidate will serve as a primary architect of our evolution into a trip-centric model.
This role manages significant organizational complexity, overseeing the Wishlist experience and Maps scope. The candidate will lead the charge on new AI-powered customer experiences, driving a strategy that helps users save and organize travel inspiration across the entire Booking.com ecosystem.
**Key Job Responsibilities and Duties: **
**Product Strategy & Vision **
- Drive Strategy: Own and set the 1-year vision for the Wishlist and Trip Centric Maps scope, ensuring alignment with the broader Track strategy.
- NPD Leadership: Operate in a fast-paced, "New Product Development" style environment, taking complex AI products from 0 to 1.
- Marketplace Intent: Stay ahead of evolving customer needs to lead the charge on how users organize travel inspiration.
- **Define Outcomes: **Be a key contributor to the overall trip planning mission goals - "more travellers planning more of their trips with Booking and being happy about it" and define and drive specific goals for Maps and Wishlist usage.
Product Delivery
- Mission-Level Execution: Lead bi-weekly mission sprints, managing a roadmap of high technical and organizational complexity.
- Risk Management: Identify dependencies across multiple areas/teams early-on, ensuring the roadmap stays on track during this critical 8-month window.
- Tactical Excellence: Partner with your team to establish delivery methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) that optimize ROI.
Data Fluency & Customer Insight
- Advanced Analytics: Define primary, supporting, and counter-metrics for trip-planning features. Apply sophisticated experimentation techniques to AI-powered features.
- Insight Distillation: Use a mix of qualitative (interviews/surveys) and quantitative data to uncover unmet user needs in the trip-planning journey.
- Research Leadership: Develop research briefs in collaboration with Data Science and Insights teams to tackle complex questions about user intent.
Stakeholder Management & Tech Fluency
- High Visibility: Manage expectations and provide clear, concise updates up to the Director level (and occasionally LT).
- Cross-Vertical Alignment: Act as a fluent spokesperson for the Mission, generating alignment across department borders.
- Technical Partnership: Partner with Engineering Managers to advocate for the customer in technical tradeoff decisions, ensuring solutions are scoped for long-term business needs.
Role Qualifications and Requirements:
- At least 7 years of product management experience, owning data products or platforms with significant scale and technical complexity.
- Track record of driving multi‑year roadmaps for complex systems, managing technical debt, and balancing rapid iteration delivery with long‑term system strategy.
- Experience collaborating closely with Engineering, Machine Learning and Data teams, able to “hold your own” in discussions about technical choices, features, and trade‑offs.
- Strong systems thinking and abstraction skills, able to turn scattered requests and use cases into clear, reusable capabilities, APIs, and policies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including aligning diverse teams, handling conflicting priorities, and building buy‑in up to senior leadership level.
- Demonstrated ability to bring structure and organization to ambiguity: highly organized in managing roadmaps, dependencies, and communication across multiple teams and time zones.
- Able to zoom in and out from a 10,000‑ft strategic view to detailed execution decisions, as needed.
- Team player with a bottom‑up ideation mindset, excited to collaborate, learn from others
**DEI**: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Booking.com
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) have been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations. Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: “At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn’t just create a unique workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone.”
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the interview process. Please contact us to request adjustments.
This role does not come with relocation assistance.
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, 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.
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